The coffin ships ferried some 1.5 million Irish to North America during the later years of the 1840s as they fled famine and poverty in their native isle. With a further million dying of hunger in ...

In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland ... crossing the Atlantic in so-called "coffin ships" during the 1840s. (As portrayed by Robert ...

The burial service for 21 Irish people who died ... the remains were from the Carricks ship, which left County Sligo with 180 emigrants at the height of the famine in 1847. Descendants of those ...

The female famine experience has been dramatised in Belfast this week. Set in 1850, Belfast Girls follows "five fierce young women" as they board a ship bound ... run marks its Irish premiere ...