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Heritage Boats in Grand Canal Dock

[expand title=”ICONIC SHIP gets lousy 4 week reprieve (click to expand)”] NAOM EANNA – Ireland’s oldest surviving merchant ship gets 4 week reprieve Ship must return to Galway. Designers propose Cafe/Bakery, Microbrewery, Restaurant, Boutique Hostel and museum as her future use Iconic Galway – Aran ferry, built in Dublin in 1956 and Ireland’s oldest surviving… Continue reading Heritage Boats in Grand Canal Dock

Lecture Joe Varley 6March14

Lecture Thursday 20 February 2014 at 8pm in Stella Maris, Joe Varley will talk about Cork during the American war of Independence 1775-1783”

Lecture-Darina-4Feb14

MEMBERS of GLENUA & FRIENDS 2013/14 LECTURE SERIES Traditional Boats of Ireland Book Project by Darina Tully TUESDAY 4 February 2014 at 20:00 in Poolbeg Yacht and Boat Club, Ringsend Entry €5 in aid of RNLI The Traditional Boats of Ireland Boat Book Project, completed in 2008, was a unique undertaking that brought together Sailors,… Continue reading Lecture-Darina-4Feb14

Lecture in Rush 23 Jan 14

Thursday 23rd January 1914 8pm : The Loss of the Tayleur – a talk on the occasion of the 160th anniversary; Rush Historical Society, Strand Bar Rush

Rival

The troopship Rival was lost off Connemara. 432 drowned. A forgotten wreck, no folk memory survives, probably because this happened in 1832 shortly before the Famine. The famine was so great a disaster that this disaster, the loss of the Rival, was erased from memory

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