100 years on: The SS Kenmare sunk by the Germans in WWI

A hundred years ago this month, the SS Kenmare was torpedoed, one of dozens of Irish civilian ships sunk by the Germans in WWI, says Jean Prendergast.

One hundred years ago, on March 2, 1918, the City of Cork Steam Packet ship, the SS Kenmare, was struck, without warning, by a torpedo fired by a German submarine in the Irish Sea, 25 miles off the Dublin coast.