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A Pocket Guide to Northern Ireland (for American GIs)

The Scotch-Irish in America (1895) - Samuel Swett Green



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The Ocean Plague

The Ocean Plague: or, A Voyage to Quebec in an Irish Emigrant Vessel, first published in 1848, is an account of a voyage from Dublin to Quebec on an Irish emigrant ship. In it we read of the horrific symptoms of disease that so many of the passengers and members of the crew succumbed to. We hear of the decimation of families, the orphaning of children, the practicalities of disposing of the dead, and the callous indifference of many to the suffering of others. Robert Whyte’s diary of 1847 is painfully informative eyewitness testimony to the trauma and tragedy on board an emigrant ship from Ireland in the mid-Nineteenth Century.

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