Emigration

Once there was massive Irish emigration to the Argentine. But that all stopped after the Dresden Affair. Emigration to a Catholic country was encouraged by the clergy, but even they were appalled by this event. There was a plan for a large immigration but it lacked planning and management, resulting in disaster for many Irish emigrant families.

RMS Titanic The Mystery of the Titanic She was the largest ship in the world at the time She was proclaimed unsinkable She collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. The element of Greek tragedy If only she heeded the 7 ice warnings, she received on the day of the sinking If…

The emigrant ship Pomona (1181 tons) was wrecked on a sandbank off Ballyconigar on 28-4-1859. Three hundred and eighty nine people lost their lives.

The sailing ship Tayleur was lost at Lambay just north of Dublin on 21 January 1854. Of the 650 aboard only 290 survived, merely three of the hundred women survived and only three of fifty children reached shore. The loss was due to a combination of compass error, an untried ship, a small crew and…