Vera Burns On Coney Island (1947)??
CONEY ISLAND
NEW YORK - SLIGO
by Veroni Burns July 2005 ©
Coney Island
New York
overpopulated, across the Atlantic next Stop –
Coney Island Rossespoint Sligo, nearly uninhabited.
The name no coincidence.
Irishman Captain Peter O’Connor named
New York
’s
Coney Island
after his native
Island in
Sligo
Master of the Schooner the ‘Arethusa’ he often travelled between Sligo
and New York 240 years ago
