| Page Views: 960 Last Visit to Cobh: August, 2004 | 3 million irish are wrong ! by sourbugger - last update: Aug 23, 2004 |
Come back now ! This port town was kown as 'Queenstown' in the past - after a visit by Queen Victoria.
It was the last departure point for the 'Titanic' ship before it had a problem with a few Ice cubes in the atlantic.
It was also the point of departure for some 3 million Irish emigrants - the majority moving to the united states.
It must have been heatbreaking to leave you homeland from such a beautiful corner of the country.
Many of them had a 'wake' on their last night in Ireland, as they were 'dead' to the land of their birth. Their only memory of Cobh was probably a hangover.
With those sort of connections the attractive town now has a healthy tourist trade. |
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toonsarah Wed May 14, 2008 19:35 UTC
Really interesting, especially the info about the story of the Titan, which I'd never heard of - thanks for intriguing me :) And I love that verse by Masefield too | aaaarrgh Sat Apr 19, 2008 16:53 UTC
Hey, I just noticed I got knocked off the top 5 spot (prolly by some cheeky upstart, not you though). Good interesting tips here! | kyoub Sat Mar 22, 2008 22:34 UTC
A lot of history here on this small page. Quite interesting. | nickandchris Fri Feb 1, 2008 12:54 UTC
That's spooky, the similarities between the two ships.... |
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