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 ...

and corporate and private donations from Ireland and North America. Goode figures the ship is six months behind schedule. Government bureaucracy, and an obligation to provide training to Irish ...

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.

Regardless of who is or isn't credited with writing it, nearly every iteration of the piece begins in exactly the same way: They came as slaves: human cargo transported on British ships bound for ...

A mass emigration took place from the remote community, many of whom left on ‘coffin ships’ to America ... it was considered ...

There was none for the Famine Irish. They simply bought ship tickets and sailed to America. They did not need passports or visas or any form of identification or anyone’s permission to come here.

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 ...