Post by Administrator on Oct 29, 2021 2:38:52 GMT
VIA: The Days of the MV Naomh Éanna, Ireland
Remembering with our thoughts and prayers the 45 fishermen tragically lost 94 years ago today during the Cleggan Disaster of 1927.
On the evening of 28th October 1927, a retired doctor in Cleggan, Country Galway, picked up a bad-weather warning on his magnetic radio. He called his farmhand and asked him to ride to Rossadillisk village immediately, and warn the fisherman not to put to sea. He was too late. The fleet from Cleggan and it's neighbouring island of Inishbofin had left, as had currach crews from Inishkea Island and Lacken and other parts of the Mayo coastline and 45 men from Inishkea, Lacken, Inishbofin and Cleggan perished.
The Cleggan disaster, as immortalized in poet Richard Murphy's verse of that title, was one of the worst marine accidents of its type on the west of Ireland coastline in the early twentieth century.
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May their souls be resting in peace. ♱
Remembering with our thoughts and prayers the 45 fishermen tragically lost 94 years ago today during the Cleggan Disaster of 1927.
On the evening of 28th October 1927, a retired doctor in Cleggan, Country Galway, picked up a bad-weather warning on his magnetic radio. He called his farmhand and asked him to ride to Rossadillisk village immediately, and warn the fisherman not to put to sea. He was too late. The fleet from Cleggan and it's neighbouring island of Inishbofin had left, as had currach crews from Inishkea Island and Lacken and other parts of the Mayo coastline and 45 men from Inishkea, Lacken, Inishbofin and Cleggan perished.
The Cleggan disaster, as immortalized in poet Richard Murphy's verse of that title, was one of the worst marine accidents of its type on the west of Ireland coastline in the early twentieth century.
LINK
May their souls be resting in peace. ♱