12-07-2025
The Kerry baby born on a famine ship and his American great granddaughter
Baby Nicholas was born on the Jennie Johnston during its maiden voyage in 1848
Meghan Fiero Reilly from Connecticut in the USA keeps a coffee mug on her work desk with the replica famine ship Jennie Johnston engraved on its side.
She is reminded everyday – not that she needs it – of her family's emigration story from Kerry to Canada in 1848 during the darkest days of the Irish potato famine – An Gorta Mór.
