Face of Cobh icon revealed

PHOTOGRAPHS of the first immigrant to arrive at New York’s Ellis Island have been unearthed almost 120 years after she landed in the United States from Ireland.

Along with her two younger brothers, teenager Annie Moore, from Cork, disembarked on January 1, 1892, the first of over 12 million immigrants to be processed at the tiny island in New York harbour, which sits in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty.

The long unseen pictures, one of which has been published in the New York Times, show an older Moore. In one photograph she is a stout, matronly figure while in another, she is younger, more slender and is holding a baby. The photos are inscribed on the back “Ma Schayer” and “Mama Schayer” – Moore’s married name.