So many young lives cut short. A poignant reminder of how grateful we all should be for their sacrifice

The Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852.  

“Our keelmen brave, with laden keels, Go sailing down in line, And with them load the fleet at Shields, That sails from coaly Tyne” (W. &...

If your ancestors were sea-faring men then you may find they served on various types of sailing ship such as Brigs, Barques, Schooners...