Mary Corry

"I was lonely then. I remember my mother waving a white hankie. I watched that white hankie until I couldn't see it any more"

The Story

Mary was 16. She had just finished convent school in Cork and she was about to start a journey to the United States with the intention of going to school there. She talks about what it felt like, leaving her home and her family, as she boarded the tender out to the White Star Liner.

"Honestly, I feel now if I was 16, I don't know if I'd do it all over again, but then it was just an adventure - the courage of inexperience."

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