AFTER three decades of sitting abandoned in Philadelphia, the once-iconic ocean liner SS United States may finally find its ...

The group sailed together to America on the ship Cuba. Irish-Americans welcomed the 'Cuba Five' with open arms. Both Devoy and another of the 'Cuba Five', Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, became ...

Survivors were forced to emigrate. The Irish peasants came to North America in overcrowded and unsanitary ships known as "coffin ships." Cabin passenger Robert Whyte recorded the horrifying ...

USS The Sullivans (DD-537), the ship named for the five Irish American brothers who were ... young men (who are part of what is now considered “America’s Greatest Generation”), streamed ...

However, by the 1840s, a large number of desperate Irish began making their way over to Newport on the cargo ships. At the time ... they'd be starting new lives in America, but they instead ...

However, the following February, hope and sustenance arrived in a ship called The Lyon, sent by an Irish merchant to his daughter who had emigrated to America with her pilgrim husband. Loaded with ...

Ships have also been used in diplomatic roles with foreign deployments around Europe, the UK, US and Canada, South America and South East Asia. Irish Defence Forces The LÉ Róisín is one of nine ...

The Sinaloa cartel is one of Mexico’s most feared groups and there has been increasing evidence that it is expanding its ...

The Dali, a massive cargo ship, lost power and veered off course before striking the bridge. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up to date with all the latest news ...

A brave firefighter sprang into action while on vacation to rescue a guest who fell overboard from a cruise ship in Honduras.

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In fact, in the late 1920s, he wrote that 'from 1871 to 1916 [Fenianism in Ireland] was maintained almost entirely by moral ...