Earl Fitzwilliam facilitated your journey to Canada...
It is our privilege to facilitate your journey home.
Welcome to the Coollattin Canadian Connection
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An initiative to reunite our Canadian diaspora with their south Wicklow roots.
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SHOEBOXES is now available for purchase.
The book SHOEBOXES by Kevin Lee & Tom Jenkins was launched at our Coollattin Famine Summer School. This lavishly illustrated, hardback coffee table book tells the story, in great detail, of the programme of assisted emigration funded by the 5th Earl Fitzwilliam during Ireland's darkest hours. Topics covered include, the origins and history of the Coollattin Estate, the Fitzwilliam family, recruiting the emigrants as well as the logistics of transferring almost 6,000 from their County Wicklow homeland to a new home across the sea.
The core of the book tells the stories of 52 of the emigrant families. It outlines where they came from on the Coollattin Estate, where they settled and, how they fared in their adoptive land. It also tells of how descendants of these families found their way back to their Wicklow homeland.
The book contains many rare images of both Coollattin famine emigrants and surviving artefacts which they brought with him.
This hardback, coffee table book is in full colour throughout and feature cartography by Barry Dalby and artwork by the very talented Gerardine Cooper Sheridan.
The cover image (above) is a depiction by our artist of Coollattin emigrants boarding the Dunbrody on New Ross Quayside
SHOEBOXES is available worldwide. To order your copy CLICK HERE
The core of the book tells the stories of 52 of the emigrant families. It outlines where they came from on the Coollattin Estate, where they settled and, how they fared in their adoptive land. It also tells of how descendants of these families found their way back to their Wicklow homeland.
The book contains many rare images of both Coollattin famine emigrants and surviving artefacts which they brought with him.
This hardback, coffee table book is in full colour throughout and feature cartography by Barry Dalby and artwork by the very talented Gerardine Cooper Sheridan.
The cover image (above) is a depiction by our artist of Coollattin emigrants boarding the Dunbrody on New Ross Quayside
SHOEBOXES is available worldwide. To order your copy CLICK HERE
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Our services
- Genealogical advise and assistance
- Acquainting families with the location of their ancestral homestead on the Coollattin estate in south Wicklow/north Wexford
- Introducing Canadian/US families with any found Irish relatives
- We welcome visitors to Ireland throughout the year, be it individuals, couples or groups who are keen to research their roots
- Historical tours of south Wicklow
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