Remembering the victims of the Titanic disaster

THIS weekend, April 9 and 10, 35 people from the Lahardane area of Mayo are heading down to Cork to be part of the Cobh (Queenstown) Titanic Celebrations.

They bring with them music, dance and stories from Mayo to Cork city, in celebration of the 14 young emigrants who passed this way some 99 years ago on their way to board the Titanic. Some of the 35 travelling from Lahardane are direct relatives of those 14 emigrants from Addergoole, 11 of whom drowned when Titanic sank. We would love to meet up with any fellow Mayo or west of Ireland people living in Cork.

Tonight we will have a traditional Séisiún in the Corner House Pub in Cork City at 9pm, where our musicians and dancers celebrate and remember the thousands of emigrants from the west of Ireland who travelled this route to a new life abroad.