The sinking of Arandora Star
The torpedoing of the Blue Star Line’s 15,000-ton luxury liner Arandora Star off Bloody Foreland, Donegal on 2 July 1940 is one of the hidden histories of Second World War…
Slave Ship Amity (1701)
The history of slavery is probably as old as that of mankind itself. Hundreds of thousands of slaves built such classical civilisations as Greece, Egypt and Rome. Viking Dublin was…
Crescent City – Mexican Silver Dollars
Mexican Silver Dollars at Galley Head, recovered from the cargo of the Crescent City
Maritime Art and Dún Laoghaire
Illustrated talk given to the Dún Laoghaire Borough Historical Society on Feb. 21st. 2007.