The British Isles & Ireland, aboard Cunard's Queen Anne:
185th Anniversary Voyage
May/June 2025
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Trinity College - with its statues of Oliver Goldsmith (the Anglo-Irish poet, novelist, and playwright) and Edmund Burke (the Anglo-Irish politician,
journalist, and philosopher) - and the Campanile (right).
The 'Sphere Within Sphere' in front of the Berkeley Library and the statue of William Lecky
(Irish historian, essayist, and political
theorist)
in front of the Campanile.
The Bank of Ireland building on College Green was originally designed as Ireland’s Parliament Building, but was sold to the bank following
the 1801 Act of Union.
May 30th ("Happy Anniversary"): this morning the Queen Anne docks at Cobh, the departure point for 2½ of the 6 million Irish who emigrated
to North America between 1848 and 1950. Famously, it was from Cobh that the Titanic made her final stop before her fateful voyage.
All this history is brilliantly illustrated in the Cobh Heritage Centre, adjacent to our ship's berth.
The Cobh statue represents Annie Moore, who was the first immigrant to reach New York via Ellis Island. Depicted with her brothers,
she is pointing to the horizon, and symbolises all the hopes of the immigrants who left Ireland for America, following
the Great Famine.
Our visit to the extensive Heritage Centre occupies the morning; in the afternoon we explore the town with its colourful buildings
and St Colman's Cathedral - one of the tallest buildings in Ireland.