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Vendee Globe
The Vendee Globe Solo Round the World Race starts on the 6th Nov 2016. This race, in France, has a greater following than the Tour de France or Roland Garros. As Enda O’Coineen the first Irishman to take part in qualifiers has achieved just that in style in December 2015
Forthcoming series of lectures on Dublin’s Diving Bell.
I have been aware of Dublin’s Diving Bell since a lecture in 2002 at the Maritime Institute winter lecture series held at Stella Maris, Beresford Place. The lecture itself was pretty unremarkable but at the Q&A afterwards we learned that in the audience was Joe Murphy the last foreman/diver who worked on the bell until… Continue reading Forthcoming series of lectures on Dublin’s Diving Bell.
Cormac Lowth retells the story of the Palme
Cormac Lowth retells the tragic story of the Palme, also referred to as the Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster of 1895, on YouTube: David Owens was the camera man. subtitles are optional
Between the Tides
Roy Stokes examines some of the historic shipwrecks of the Irish coast.