Coffin Ship (14 page)

The Articles, Letters, Magazines and Newspaper records contained in the references, some of which are undated, are mainly from the John Bhaba Jaick Ó Congaola collection.

Miscellaneous Articles

Bob Cuble, ‘Irish, Past and Present, Found Tragedy and Hope'.

‘Catholics to Honour Irish Immigrants Lost in Cohasset Shipwreck of 1849,' 1949.

Cormac Ó Gráda, ‘Ireland's Great Famine'.

‘Cross is Monument to Irish'.

‘Immigrants – Memorial at Cohasset Being Erected – Brig 
St. John
 Wrecked in 1849 on Minot's Ledge – Victims of the Disaster Numbered 99' (Newspaper article).

Ken Crotty, ‘Sinking of Irish Boat Described' (3-10-1949).

M. Kennedy, ‘The Winter Voyages of the Famine Ships, 
Cushlamachree
 and 
Londonderry
'.

Martin P. Harney, SJ, ‘A Tragic Episode of the Irish Famine Immigration'.

Martin P. Harney, SJ, ‘The Storm of October 1849'.

Martin P. Harney, SJ, ‘The Wreck of the Brig 
St. John
'.

Notes copied from Newcomb Bates (Jr), the Town Clerk of (Cohasset) (7-10-1849).

The League of the Sacred Heart (Loyla Chapel B.C. High School); ‘Brig 
St. John
 of Galway, Ireland Lost October 7, 1849, at Cohasset'.

‘The Wreck of the Emigrant Brig “
St. John
” on October 7, 1849,' statement of lifeboat crew.

‘To Their Memory'.

‘Wreck of the Brig 
St. John
' (1949).

Private Letters

Ancient Order of Hibernians in America (undated).

Ancient Order of Hibernians in America (undated).

Ancient Order of Hibernians in America (5-12-1941).

Ancient Order of Hibernians in America (30-11-1961).

Ancient Order of Hibernians in America (21-5-1962).

The Archbishop of Boston (10-3-1999).

Article by Robert N. Fraser, the Curator of the Cohasset Maritime Museum (1-1-1979).

Boston College High School, Press Release, ‘Midnight Memorial Mass for Irish Victims of Brig “
Saint John
” off Cohasset', Fr Walter Martin (October, 1989).

‘Brig 
St. John
', John Bhaba Jaick Ó Congaola.

The Curator of the Cohasset Historical Society (23-7-1978).

The Curator of the Cohasset Historical Society (29-11-1989).

The Curator of the Cohasset Historical Society, ‘Information Relating to the “
St. John
” Wreck', David Wadsworth (8-3-1984). John Bhaba Jaick Ó Congaola collection.

The Curator of the Cohasset Maritime Museum (17-12-1978).

The President of Cohasset Central Cemetery Corporation (26-5-1914).

‘The Wreck of the Brig 
St. John
', John Bhaba Jaick Ó Congaola (1999).

Cohasset Town Records, Book II, 1844-1865.

Diary of Elizabeth Lothrop: 11-10-1849, 25-12-1849.

Internet Articles

http://www.moytura.com/sligo1.htm

http://www.islayinfo.com/Exmouth-islay-tragedy.html

http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/shipwreck_st_jo

http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/stjohn_burials

http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/awful shipwreck.htm

Interview

John Bhaba Jaick Ó Congaola, 18-7-2008.

Lecture

‘The Brig 
St. John
 Disaster 1849', John Bhaba Jaick Ó Congaola, 29-1-2007.

Lloyd's Register and Supplement

1845, 1846, 1847, 1850.

Historical Maritime Information: Merchant Shipping Losses and Shipwrecks.

Magazines

Brig
 St. John 
of Galway was Cohasset's Worst Shipwreck
, Cohasset Historical Society. John Bhaba Jaick Ó Congaola collection.

Brig
 St. John 
Memorial Mass
, Ancient Order of Hibernians. Father John Murphy, Division 9, Plymouth, 4-10-1997.

Centenary Commemoration
, 21-8-1949.

Cohasset Vignettes
, Robert Fraser, 1981.

Ennistymon Parish Magazine
, ‘The Wreck of the Irish Emigrant Ship', ‘The Shipwreck of the 
St. John
'. Articles compiled from material supplied by Brud Slattery, John Flanagan (both Lahinch), and Frank Flanagan (USA), 1996.

Glór na nOileán
, ‘An Brig 
St. John
', Pádraig Ó Maoilchiaráin.

Marine Disasters
, ‘II – The Wreck of the 
St. John
', Willard De Lue.

The Mariner
, ‘The History of Central Cemetery', David Wadsworth. John Bhaba Jaick Ó Congaola collection.

Newspapers

Boston Daily Herald
:

‘Brig 
St. John
 of Galway, Ireland, Lost October 7, 1849 at Cohasset'.

‘List of Survivors and Drowned'.

‘Tell it to Joe – Monument to Shipwrecked Irish', Joe McLaughlin (8-7-1976).

‘The Burial of the Victims of the 
St. John
 – Melancholy Sight' (12-10-1849).

‘Triumph Out of Tragedy – Commemorating the 150 Anniversary of the Great Hunger' (26-6-1998).

Boston Irish Reporter
:

‘Cohasset Monument Honors Famine Victims' (October, 1996).

Boston Sunday Herald
:

‘Cohasset Ceremony Recalls Shipwreck' (10-10-1999).

Cohasset Mariner
:

‘Meeting the Governor' (2-7-1998).

Dublin Evening Post
:

A report (9-9-1845).

Galway Advertiser
:

‘The Workhouse' (3-3-1994).

‘When Galway Starved' (27-6-1996).

Galway Mercury and Weekly Connaught Advertiser
:

A report dated 5-6-1847.

‘A Famine Report' (13-3-1847).

‘Emigration' (1-5-1847).

‘Irish Sufferings – Whig and Tory Sympathy' (3-7-1847).

‘More Deaths by Starvation' (22-1-1848).

‘Passage Across the Atlantic' (19-6-1847).

‘Song of the Famine' (5-9-1846).

‘Starvation – Inquest' (13-3-1847).

‘The Devon Commission' (26-6-1847).

‘The Song of the Famine' (10-7-1847).

‘Wreck of an Emigrant Ship' (27-10-1849).

‘Wreck of the 
St. John
' (3-11-1849).

Galway Vindicator
:

‘Awful Shipwreck at Minot's Ledge – Loss of 
St. John
 of Galway. About One Hundred Drowned – Men, Women and Children' (3-11-1849).

Illustrated London News
:

A report dated 8-5-1847.

‘Famine and Starvation in the County of Cork' (16-1-1847).

‘Mortality in Skibbereen' (30-1-1846).

‘Sketches in the West of Ireland', Mr James Mahony (13/20-2-1847).

‘The Galway Starvation Riots' (25-6-1842).

‘The Late Food Riots in Ireland' (7-11-1846).

‘The Potato Disease' (18-10-1845).

The Boston Irish Echo
:

‘More on the Ill-Fated Brig, 
St. John
 – Remembers the 
St. John
,' Paddy Mulkerrins (14-4-1984).

‘More on the Ill-Fated Brig, 
St. John
,' Bill Loughran (14-4-1984).

‘Survivors Found', Paddy Mulkerrins (letter to editor).

‘The Ill-Fated Brig 
St. John
,' Bill Loughran (14-1-1984).

The Boston Mail
:

‘Wreck of the 
St. John
' (11-10-1849).

The Boston Post
:

‘Brig 
St. John
 Memorial' (12-10-1849).

‘Brig 
St. John
 of Galway – List of Survivors and Drowned' (12-10-1849).

‘The Burial of the Victims of the 
St. John
 – Melancholy Sight' (12-10-1849).

The Boston Sunday Globe
:

‘150 Years Later: Honouring the Irish who Died at Sea off Cohasset Coast' (3-10-1999).

‘Remembering the 
St. John
 Disaster of 1849' (3-10-1999).

‘Those Known to Have Perished' (3-10-1999).

The Connacht Tribune
:

‘The Great Famine, Tribune Extra' (24-3-1995).

The Freeman's Journal
:

‘The Burial of the Victims' (26-10-1849).

‘The Wreck of the Irish Emigrant Ship 
St. John
' (26-10-1849).

‘Wreck of the Irish Emigrant Ship Lamentable Loss of Life' (24-10-1849).

The Galway City Tribune
; 
Tribune Extra
:

‘Galway Victims of a Major Tragedy' (27-11-1998).

The Irish Emigrant
:

‘Brig 
Saint John
 Anniversary' (13-12-1999).

‘Ninety-Nine Irish Lives Lost in Brig 
St. John
 Shipwreck' (September, 1999).

The Irish World and American Industrial Liberator and Gaelic American
:

‘Death of a Famine Ship', Frank Durkan (6-10-1984).

The Jesuit or Catholic Sentinel
:

‘Memorial to Irish' (4-1-1934).

The Patriot Ledger
:

‘Brig Wreck Killed 143 off Cohasset', Edward Rowe Snow (6-10-1959).

‘Celtic Cross: Cohasset's Memorial to a Shipwreck', Laura Doherty.

‘Ceremonies to Honor Irish Shipwreck Victims' (6-10-1999).

‘Cross Monument to Irish', Edward Rowe Snow (6-10-1959).

‘Doomsday at Little Harbor', Bob Cubie (6-10-1999).

‘Shipwreck Revisited: 99 Irish Immigrants Perished in 1849 Storm', Molly Hochkeppel (9-10-1989).

‘To Mark Anniversary of Old Brig's Sinking', Edward Rowe Snow.

The Pilot
:

‘Wreck of Brig 
St. John
', George E. Ryan (October, 1979).

Tribune Extra
:

‘Galway Victims of a Major Tragedy' (27-11-1998).

Video

Brig 
St. John
. Telegael.

Comber, H.,
 
The Book of Thomas J. Comber and Eliza Comerford
 
(n.d.).

Cunningham, J., ‘
A Town Tormented by the Sea
':
 
Galway 1790–1914
 
(Geography Publications, Dublin, 2004).

Gallagher, T.,
 
Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847: Prelude to Hatred
 
(Poolbeg Press Ltd, Swords, 1985).

Garvey, Fr G.,
 
Bushypark Celebrates 1837-1987
 
(Fr Gerard Garvey, 1988).

Henry, W.,
 
Role of Honour, Mayors of Galway City 1485-2001
 
(Galway City Council, 2001).

Henry, W.,
 
St Clerans: The Tale of a Manor House
 
(Merv Griffin, 1999).

Laxton, E.,
 
The Famine Ships; The Irish Exodus to America 1846-51
 
(Bloomsbury, London, 1996).

Litton, Helen,
 
The Irish Famine: An Illustrated History
 
(Wolfhound Press, Dublin, 1994).

McBride, D.,
 
When Hunger Stalked the North
 
(Adare Press, Banbridge, 1994).

Murray, J.P.,
 
Galway: A Medico-Social History
 
(Kenny's Bookshop and Art Gallery, Galway, 1994).

Ó Cathaoir, Brendan,
 
Famine Diary
 
(Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1999).

O'Dowd, Peadar,
 
Down by the Claddagh
 
(Kenny's Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd, 1993).

O'Dowd, Peadar,
 
Galway City
 
(Galway Corporation, 1998).

O'Dowd, Peadar,
 
The Great Famine and the West 1845-1850
 
(Galway Corporation, 1995).

Ó hÉideáin, E.,
 
The Dominicans in Galway 1241-1991
 
(The Dominican Priory, Galway, 1991).

Porteir, Cathal (ed.),
 
The Great Irish Famine
 
(Mercier Press, 1995).

Thoreau, Henry David,
 
Cape Cod
 
(WW Norton and Company, New York, 1865).

Villiers-Tuthill, K.,
 
Beyond the Twelve Bens: A History of Clifden and District 1860-1923
 
(Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill, 1990).

White, R.,
 
1847 Famine Ship Diary
 
(Mercier Press, Cork, 1994).

Woodham-Smith, C.,
 
The Great Hunger
 
(Harper and Row, United States, 1989).