Although many Irish people made their way to the States before the Great Hunger, the numbers making the dangerous trip on coffin ships across ... born people living in America (see below).

Bethany Sheffer wants you to book passage on a coffin ship. Well, a re-creation of one, for a voyage into the history of Irish immigration to America that very much resonates today. She’s the ...

Irish emigrants embarking for America at Waterloo Docks, Liverpool, 1850, from The Illustrated London News, July 1850. They were not the only nationality represented among the ship's passengers.

The group sailed together to America on the ship Cuba. Irish-Americans welcomed the 'Cuba Five' with open arms. Both Devoy and another of the 'Cuba Five', Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, became ...

The Irish Navy has decommissioned a third ... and the first Naval Service ship to visit South America in 2006 this merited its preservation as visitor attraction. Speaking in the Dáil last ...