Emigration

Revisiting the Coffin Ships: emigrant mortality during the Famine

Over two million Irish people emigrated abroad between 1845 and 1855. But did they all sail on so-called "coffin ships"? Cian T. McMahon uses the surviving statistics to find out.

Under a Southern Sky: an Irish Settlement in Colonial Australia

A strange environment indeed: Famine Irish in northwest England

Tens of thousands of desperate "half naked and starving" Irish emigrants arrived in the north west of England during the Famine years, bringing deadly disease and hunger with them. As Lewis Darwen explains, many remained - but some were sent back.