Historical Disasters in Ireland

Sadly, Ireland has suffered from some aviation, natural, and rail disasters.

One of Ireland's worst natural disasters was the Great Famine of the 1840s. At that time people mostly lived on a valuable food: the potato. In 1845 a fungus struck the potatoes and the had nothing to eat. 1 million people died and about a have a million emigrated to Britain, America, and Australia. It lasted until 1848.

The worst aviation disasters was the Tuskar Rock Air Disaster. On Sunday, March 24th, 1968, an Aer Lingus Vickers Viscount flying between Cork and London Heathrow carrying 61 people inexplicably crashed about two miles north-east of Tuskar Rock, on the South-East coast of Ireland. It was probably caused by structural failure in the port tailplane, but it was not determined how. It was also called Aer Lingus Flight 712. It remains Ireland's worst aviation disaster. It was the Vickers Viscount's 4th worst disaster.

A train traveling between Dublin and Cork crashed into another train killing 18 people and injuring more than 70.

In 1998, a IRA bomb exploded in the lovely town of Omagh in Northern Ireland killed 29 and injured many more. It was Ireland's worst Troubles attack ever. All the troubles stop completely in 1998.