By Corey Sandler, Destination Consultant Silversea Cruises
Cobh is a place of epic beginnings and endings.
It is one of the closest ports of Europe to Canada and North America.
Cobh—or Queenstown as it was known then—was the place from which millions of Irish departed their homeland to seek a new start in the new world, the land of milk and honey, the place where the streets were paved with gold: America and Canada.
The population of Ireland was estimated at 8.2 million in 1841; half a century later, in 1891, the population was said to be 4.7 million.
As many as 4.5 million Irish arrived in America between 1820 and 1930, from Queenstown, other Irish ports, and British ports like Liverpool.
Today, in the United States, more than 10 percent of Americans trace their roots to Ireland.
Queenstown was the last piece of land touched by passengers on the doomed ship Titanic in 1912.
And Queenstown was just out of reach of the Lusitania, which came the other direction from New York before it was torpedoed and sunk off the Old Head of Kinsale in 1915.
A COBH ALBUM
A SIDE TRIP TO CORK
On this visit, we were off the ship early and onto a morning train up the estuary to the big city of Cork, about 15 miles away. In not-all-that-ancient times, the distance was enough to make the cities grow very differently.
Today, Cork is a lively town with a wealth of Georgian and Victorian buildings and a few pieces of idiosyncratic architecture as well.
Here are some photos from today:
Silver Wind at the dock, as seen from the train station on the other side of the quay.
An old mill in Cork, converted to apartments.
Inside and outside the English Market in the heart of Cork.
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