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For millions of people, Ireland ended at Cork Harbour. This book tells the story of the great leaving, from the coffin ships of the Famine to the steamships that carried a steady stream out of Cobh. You will follow the emigrants to Grosse-Ile and Ellis Island, meet Annie Moore, the first person processed there, and see how money sent home reshaped the county they left behind. It ends with a practical chapter for descendants on tracing your own Cork ancestors. Written for anyone whose family began here. Illustrated. Digital download (PDF).
All ten books, including this one, come together in The Cork Stories Collection for €24.99, a saving of almost €35 on buying them one at a time.
What's inside:
Prologue: The Last Morning
1. The Port
2. The Famine Exodus
3. The Coffin Ships and Grosse-Île
4. Chain Migration
5. The Money Home
6. The American City
7. Annie Moore and Ellis Island
8. The Steamship Years
9. What Was Left Behind
10. The Move to Britain
11. The Return
12. Tracing Your Cork Ancestors
Epilogue: At the Harbour Wall
41 pages, illustrated.
From the opening pages:
A tender pulled away from the Cobh waterfront at half past seven one morning in May 1847. Forty or so people sat among their bundles on its flat wooden deck. Two crewmen worked the boat, and they had made the short run out to the anchored ships so often that they no longer looked at the faces of the people they carried.
The passengers looked back. We know this from the records that outlived them: letters posted years later from Boston and New York, testimony taken down by relief workers, the few diary entries kept by people who could write. They watched the town climb its hill behind them, the half-built cathedral, the painted terraces stacked above the water, the green slopes beyond. They watched until the bulk of the ocean-going ship blotted out the view, and after that there was nothing more to see, so they stopped.
For millions of people, Ireland ended at Cork Harbour. This book tells the story of the great leaving, from the coffin ships of the Famine to the steamships that carried a steady stream out of Cobh. You will follow the emigrants to Grosse-Ile and Ellis Island, meet Annie Moore, the first person processed there, and see how money sent home reshaped the county they left behind. It ends with a practical chapter for descendants on tracing your own Cork ancestors. Written for anyone whose family began here. Illustrated. Digital download (PDF).
All ten books, including this one, come together in The Cork Stories Collection for €24.99, a saving of almost €35 on buying them one at a time.
What's inside:
Prologue: The Last Morning
1. The Port
2. The Famine Exodus
3. The Coffin Ships and Grosse-Île
4. Chain Migration
5. The Money Home
6. The American City
7. Annie Moore and Ellis Island
8. The Steamship Years
9. What Was Left Behind
10. The Move to Britain
11. The Return
12. Tracing Your Cork Ancestors
Epilogue: At the Harbour Wall
41 pages, illustrated.
From the opening pages:
A tender pulled away from the Cobh waterfront at half past seven one morning in May 1847. Forty or so people sat among their bundles on its flat wooden deck. Two crewmen worked the boat, and they had made the short run out to the anchored ships so often that they no longer looked at the faces of the people they carried.
The passengers looked back. We know this from the records that outlived them: letters posted years later from Boston and New York, testimony taken down by relief workers, the few diary entries kept by people who could write. They watched the town climb its hill behind them, the half-built cathedral, the painted terraces stacked above the water, the green slopes beyond. They watched until the bulk of the ocean-going ship blotted out the view, and after that there was nothing more to see, so they stopped.
