Qualla: Cobh https://qualla.com/cobh en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Cobh https://qualla.com/cobh Cobh: Introduction https://qualla.com/cobh/ On 11 April 1912, a young Irish stoker named John Coffey looked at the harbour of Queenstown - the British-era name for the town now called Cobh - and decided he had had enough. The Titanic was anchored offshore. Tenders were ferrying first-class passengers and their luggage out to her for the final leg of her maiden voyage. Coffey, a native of the town, slipped off the ship in the confusion, walked home, and saved his life. One hundred and twenty-three other passengers boarded at Cobh that day. Forty-four of them survived. Three years later, when the Lusitania went down off the Old Head of Kinsale, the bodies were brought here. So were the survivors. So, fifty years before, were a million emigrants leaving Ireland forever. Cobh has been the last sight of home for more people than any other Irish port.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/cobh-wp/gc4n-cobh-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cobh: The Cove of Cork https://qualla.com/cobh/ It started as Ballyvoloon, a fishing village on the high south face of Great Island looking down on a perfect natural anchorage. In 1720 the Water Club was founded on Haulbowline Island just offshore - the seed of what is now the Royal Cork Yacht Club, claimed (correctly, by Guin...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/cobh-wp/gc4n-cobh-the-cove-of-cork.mp3 0:06 2 full Cobh: Two and a Half Million Goodbyes https://qualla.com/cobh/ Between 1848 and 1950, six million Irish people emigrated to North America. Two and a half million of them sailed from this harbour. The figure is so large that it is hard to picture: a quarter of all the Irish people who ever went to America passed through this single small town...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/cobh-wp/gc4n-cobh-two-and-a-half-million-goodbyes.mp3 0:06 3 full Cobh: Titanic, Last Port https://qualla.com/cobh/ Queenstown was the Titanic's last port of call before she set out across the Atlantic on the last leg of her maiden voyage. She arrived on 11 April 1912, anchored offshore, and was assisted by two ageing White Star Line tenders - the PS America and the PS Ireland - which ferried ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/cobh-wp/gc4n-cobh-titanic-last-port.mp3 0:06 4 full Cobh: Lusitania Coming Home https://qualla.com/cobh/ On 7 May 1915 the Cunard liner RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat off the Old Head of Kinsale while en route from the United States to Liverpool. 1,198 passengers died. 764 were rescued. The survivors were brought to Queenstown. The dead were brought too - over a hundred o...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/cobh-wp/gc4n-cobh-lusitania-coming-home.mp3 0:06 5 full Cobh: From Queenstown to Cobh https://qualla.com/cobh/ The town was renamed Queenstown in 1849, during a visit by Queen Victoria, but Irish independence reversed the gesture. On 2 July 1920, in the middle of the War of Independence, the local council passed a motion changing the name from Queenstown back to Cobh - the Irish Gaelicisa...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/cobh-wp/gc4n-cobh-from-queenstown-to-cobh.mp3 0:06 6 full Cobh: What Cruise Ships See https://qualla.com/cobh/ Cruise liners now bring almost 100,000 passengers a year to the Republic of Ireland's only dedicated cruise terminal, berthing in the town centre at Kennedy Pier. The streetscape they walk into has changed strikingly little since 1912. St Colman's Cathedral still dominates the sk...

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