[Mourners with coffins prior to the funerals, following Arranmore boating tragedy]

[Mourners with coffins prior to the funerals, following Arranmore boating tragedy]

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Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Independent Newspapers (Firm)
In collection: The Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Collection
Format: Photo
Published / Created: 14th November 1935.
Subjects:
Disasters > Ireland > Donegal > 1930-1940.
Drowning victims > Ireland > 1930-1940.
Funeral rites & ceremonies > Ireland > Donegal > 1930-1940.
Migrant agricultural laborers > Irish > Donegal > 1930-1940.
Ship accidents > Ireland > Donegal > 1930-1940.
Donegal (Ireland : County) > 1930-1950.
Arranmore (Ireland) > 1930-1940.
Glass negatives > 1900-1940.
Notes:On the 9th of November 1935, a boat left Arranmore for Burtonport to meet a crowd of mainly young people returning home from Scotland where they had spent the summer working on farms picking potatoes, or tatie hoking. When the boat set off from Burtonport for Arranmore, it was dark and foggy. There were sixteen men and four women aboard. Thirteen of the passengers were migrant workers returning home to the island, the others were family members who had gone to Burtonport to meet them. It seems that fairly close to the island the boat hit a rock and all twenty passengers were thrown into the water. One by one they drowned or died of exhaustion and cold in the water. Just one person, Patrick Gallagher, survived. When daylight came he was seen clinging to the upturned boat to which he had clung for fifteen hours. He had watched helplessly as six members of his family died. All those drowned were neighbours, most were related

See also INDH3042-INDH3068.

Physical description: 1 negative : glass ; 9 x 12 cm.

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INDH3048
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