The mass immigration of the Irish during the great Famine and the decades that followed was a Diaspora of staggering proportions. In the second half of the nineteenth century, almost every family experienced the heartbreak of losing loved ones forever and often rapidly so via death in transit.  But still they set out – three million out of eight – to they knew not what in the Americas, Australia, and the U.K. What drove such numbers on at such peril? What hardships awaited them�...
From Coffin Ships To Triumph Abroad, Museums Tell Of Ireland's Haunting Diaspora
Forbes - 24 Mar 2013 21:38
The mass immigration of the Irish during the great Famine and the decades that followed was a Diaspora of staggering proportions. In the second half of the nineteenth century, almost every family experienced the heartbreak of losing loved ones forever and often rapidly so via death in transit.  But still they set out – three million out of eight – to they knew not what in the Americas, Australia, and the U.K. What drove such numbers on at such peril? What hardships awaited them�...
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