COBH/QUEENSTOWN DURING WORLD WAR 1

To commemorate the Centenary of the beginning of what became known as ‘The Great War’ , Cork Harbour Islands Project (C.H.I.P.) will be holding their 2014 Exhibition on *’Cobh/Queenstown during World War 1*’ in the new Cobh Railway Station Exhibition Centre on Saturday 6th September, 2014 at 2pm (many thanks to Cobh Maritime Development Company for the use of the Centre).

We would be delighted if as many as possible could attend the Ceremony which will be performed by Tim McSweeney PC & O.N.E. (Organisation of National Ex-Servicemen & Women).. The Exhibition will feature on the effect of the war on the lives of the townspeople, particularly on a personal level with so many locals fighting in the war, some never to return. The town featured strongly on the world scene with the sinking of the ‘Lusitania’ in 1915 and the subsequent entering into the war of the USA and their navy which had a base in Queenstown.

We are still avidly looking for any photographs/stories etc of local townspeople, family members who participated in the war or any other information of life in Queenstown at that time.

Please contact John Hennessy (4814202)/ Claire Stack (086 8590681)/Marita Foster (086 0667529)/Dolores Coakley /Denis McGrath (4812230)/Dave Verling /Mary McCormack