Bones found on Canadian beach likely from ‘coffin ship’ from Ireland’s Great Famine

By artappraiser on Wed, 12/31/2014 - 5:51am |

By Justin Mayer, Washington Post, Dec. 31, 2014

[....] One million died. Two million fled. Today, the population of Ireland and Northern Ireland combined is still lower than it was before Abraham Lincoln became president. Now, the remains of some of those who tried to flee this cataclysm have been identified — on a beach in Canada [....] though they carried refugees of the Great Famine, coffin ships — illustrations of which resemble the sleeping quarters of Nazi concentration camps — were themselves deadly, claiming the lives of up to 100,000 would-be migrants [....]

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