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Replica of the "good ship" Jeanie Johnston, which sailed during the Great Hunger when coffin ships were common. No one ever died on the Jeanie Johnston. A coffin ship (Irish: long cónra) is a popular idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced by the Highland Clearances.
Looshtauk was an Irish emigrant ship, captained by John M. Thain, sailing from the Port of Liverpool to the Port of Quebec on April 17, 1847. 462 passengers boarded at Liverpool. [1] Typhus was caught by two male passengers in Liverpool and broke out during the crossing. Scarlet fever also erupted.
Grosse Isle, Quebec is an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, home to a quarantine station set up in 1832 to contain a cholera epidemic, and home to thousands of Irish emigrants from 1832 to 1848. [2] On 17 May 1847, the first vessel, the Syria, arrived with 430 fever cases. This was followed by eight more ships a few days later.
Today, about 70 million people claim Irish heritage or ancestry worldwide, according to the Irish government.
Their first ship was Marcus Hill, bought in 1815, at the conclusion of the American War; she continued to traverse the Atlantic until 1827. She was followed in 1824 by President . With the purchase of Caroline in 1834 and Erin in 1836, the McCorkell's began to collect oil paintings of each of their ships; these are still in family ownership.
People who lost Irish citizenship (4 P) A. Irish emigrants to Argentina (11 P) ... Pages in category "Irish emigrants" The following 14 pages are in this category ...
Marine Hospital—Quarantine Cemetery. This cemetery operated from 1799 to 1858. All ships entering into NY Harbor were subjected to health inspection. This site is a public golf course which operates over the cemetery. Irish Hunger Marker and memorial designates the site as a final resting place of many Irish immigrants.
This category relates to all ships designed, built, or operated in the island of Ireland, including the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ships of Ireland .