This episode, 'Life at Sea', explores the ways in which emigrants used personal relationships to deal with dangers and uncertainties while out on the high ocean.

The information you’ll hear in this series is based on the book The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine by Cian T. McMahon. Available at:⁠https://nyupress.org/9781479808793/the-coffin-ship/

Across the Briny Ocean is a collaborative production between University of Nevada Las Vegas historian Cian T. McMahon and multi-award winning audio producer Daithí McMahon at the University of Derby.

This episode, 'Embarking on the Ship', looks at the ways in which emigrants covered the ground between their homes and ports of embarkation.

The information you’ll hear in this series is based on the book The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine by Cian T. McMahon.

Across the Briny Ocean is a collaborative production between University of Nevada Las Vegas historian Cian T. McMahon and multi-award winning audio producer Daithí McMahon at the University of Derby.

A preview of what to expect from this five-part podcast series on the lived experience of everyday migrants during the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s and ‘50s.

Across the Briny Ocean covers the arc of an average emigrant’s journey, from funding and buying a ticket (Episode 1) to getting to the port of embarkation (Episode 2) to surviving life at sea (Episode 3) and emigrant mortality (Episode 4) to arriving in the New World (Episode 5). Each episode also concludes by considering the ways in which historical perspectives on the Irish experience sheds light on the plight of twenty-first-century migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers around the world.

The series is hosted by Professor Cian T. McMahon (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and based on his book The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine. The series is co-produced by Daithí McMahon, a multi-award-winning audio producer and Associate Professor at the University of Derby.

This first episode, 'Preparing to Leave', looks at the ways in which prospective emigrants gathered the resources to leave Ireland even as their way of life was literally falling apart.

The information you’ll hear in this series is based on the book The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine by Cian T. McMahon. Available at:⁠https://nyupress.org/9781479808793/the-coffin-ship/

Across the Briny Ocean is a collaborative production between University of Nevada Las Vegas historian Cian T. McMahon and multi-award winning audio producer Daithí McMahon at the University of Derby.