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[[Frank Herbert]]'s novel ''[[The White Plague]]'', about a worldwide plague-like virus that only killed women, featured modern coffin ships which carried Irish people back home to their deaths, as demanded by the novel's antagonist who had released the virus.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=6dgtUfHS2r8C&dq=frank+herbert+the+white+plague+coffin+ship&pg=PA142 ''The White Plague''] by Frank Herbert, p. 142.</ref>
▲q>]654]Evqv,y4=cf=2>Irish writevrv,y4=cf=2 [[Joseph O'Connor]]'s 2004 novel ''[[Star of the Sea (novel)|Star of the Sea]]'' is set aboard a coffin ship and against the backdrop of the Irish famine. The book became an international bestseller.
The [[The BibleCode Sundays]] song "Mayo Moon"<ref>[https://www.shazam.com/song/978792969/mayo-moon?tab=lyrics ''Mayo Moon Song Lyrics from Shazam'']</ref> describes a man preparing to leave for New York during the Irish Potato Famine. It mentions the term "Coffin Ship" as it is waiting by the quay to take him away from here. The song continues the journey across the ocean as a storm rips the sails off and leaving the ship lost om the ocean. It finishes by describing all the passengers that had died on the crossing and the final sinking of the ship.
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== External links ==
* [https://nyupress.org/9781479808793/the-coffin-ship/ Cian T. McMahon, ''The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine'' (NYU Press, 2021)]
* {{cite book |url=http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/SADLIER/IRISH/RWhyte.htm |author=Robert Whyte |title=The Journey of an Irish Coffin Ship |year=1847 |access-date=27 June 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100411075616/http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7Ehyper/sadlier/irish/rwhyte.htm |archive-date=11 April 2010 |url-status=dead }}
* [http://www.famineships.info famineships.info immigration records 1846 through 1851] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130903075825/http://www.famineships.info/ |date=3 September 2013 }}
{{Great Hunger}}
[[Category:Great Famine (Ireland)]]
[[Category:Maritime history of Ireland]]
[[Category:Ships of Ireland]]
[[Category:Passenger ships of Ireland]]
[[Category:Health in Ireland]]
[[Category:Epidemic typhus]]
[[Category:History of immigration to Canada]]
[[Category:History of immigration to the United States]]
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