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The truth about coffin ships? (task 3)
 
Task 3: Coffin ships on the web
Does the memory of the coffin ships still live on today?

One of the best places to find out about how people remember past events is by searching the Internet.

In this task your job is to look at some web sites which comment on the coffin ships.

1. The History Place - Irish Famine:
    http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/coffin.htm   
2. Out of Ireland - A Watery Grave:

    http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/rmcusack/Story-32.html                    (Extract in MS Word)
3. The Worst Coffin Ships:

    http://www.obeirnefamily.cwc.net/issue6/worst_coffin_ships.htm(Extract in MS Word)

Your teacher may give you sections of these sites to look at, or let you search for your own.

After looking at one or more of the sites, compare the impression you get from this site with the impressions you formed in Tasks 1 and 2.
Record them in a table like this.

 

Aspect of the coffin ships What the Keegan diary saidWhat the web site(s) said
Overcrowding  

Whether anyone made

profits from the emigrants

  
Food & water  
Quality of the ships  
Conditions on board ship  
Laws or regulations  

Add other points or

issues