Ireland

IRELAND

Passenger List of The TITANIC, enroute New York from England. Last stop Ireland. Went down in the Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg, April 1912.
Second Class Passenger, Wiliam Henry Gillespie,
age 34, a law clerk from Coffee Palace, Abbeyleix, Laois, Ireland. Destination Vancouver, BC. who died.
First Class passengers, a newly married couple (nee Gillespie) returning home from a European honeymoon,
who survived.

A county map is on the Researchers page

A SONG OF LAMENT

By a young Irish lass who begs a traveler to carry a tragic message to her brother in The United States--their aged mother has been evicted

Tell him since he went away how bitter was her lot,
And the landlord came one winter's night and turned us from our cot.
Our troubles they were many, and our friends they were but few.
And dear brother, our mother used to oftimes talk of you--
Saying, "Darling son, come back again!" she often used to say,
'Till at last one day she sickened, aye, and soon was laid away.
Her grave I watered with my tears, it's where these flowers grew,
This is all I've got now, and them I send to you.

CONSULATE OF IRELAND
#1400 - 100 West Pender St.
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6B 1R8

National Archives of Ireland
Bishop Street, Dublin 8, Ireland