On 14th October 1809, The Lady Nelson, Captain Bernard Wade, was shipwrecked on a voyage from Oporto to Liverpool, off…

World War 1 was declared on 5 August 1914. On 27 October 1914, disaster befell the Royal Navy. HMS Audacious,…

Radio Officers were trained in Limerick. This is a history of the school.

A mystery, a rail tank wagon was washed ashore during the war. The tank contained a corpse

A further account of the East India Company. The story of two of their Bandon-built ships "Hope" and "Thomas"

The troopship Rival was lost off Connemara. 432 drowned. A forgotten wreck, no folk memory survives, probably because this happened…

U-20, the u-boat which sank the Lusitania, was lost on the Jutland Sands. An account of her loss and the…

From early in the nineteenth century until the present time, the image of a copper and brass diver's helmet or…

GUARD-SHIPS AT KINGSTOWN By Cormac F. Lowth Shortly after the completion of Kingstown Harbour in the early 1820s, it became…

Midsummer’s Day 1961 saw the last commercial passage of a Guinness barge on the River Liffey. According to Al Byrne…