The coffin ships took up to 40 days to reach their ... children around the ship and explaining to them about the Great Irish Famine. I cannot think of a greater gift to give a child, either ...

The bleak discoveries of the Irish Famine dead give an insight into the ... The Irish fleeing the Great Hunger in 1847 would have traveled by coffin ship having lived in dire conditions at home.

In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland ... crossing the Atlantic in so-called "coffin ships" during the 1840s. (As portrayed by Robert ...

The burial service for 21 Irish people who died ... the remains were from the Carricks ship, which left County Sligo with 180 emigrants at the height of the famine in 1847. Descendants of those ...

The female famine experience has been dramatised in Belfast this week. Set in 1850, Belfast Girls follows "five fierce young women" as they board a ship bound ... run marks its Irish premiere ...

During the pandemic the artist admits he took strength in not only his ancestors surviving the Great Irish Famine but all of ... Irish migrants arrived by coffin ships to Toronto on the very ...