The wanderer at Kingstown and John Masefield
The Poet Laureate John Masefield was essentially a sea poet; the sea was what he knew and wrote about best.…
Journal of Research on Irish Maritime History
The Poet Laureate John Masefield was essentially a sea poet; the sea was what he knew and wrote about best.…
Illustrated talk given to the Dún Laoghaire Borough Historical Society on Feb. 21st. 2007.
The sailing ship Tayleur was lost at Lambay just north of Dublin on 21 January 1854. Of the 650 aboard…
it is out pitiful duty to record. The United States ship Pomona , Captain Merrihew with a crew of thirty…
This marked the end of Irish emigration to South America. It was badly planned and many died
Few stories have been mentioned so often with so much confusion than the tale of the collision between a sailing…
There is a small lake called Nemi in the Alban Hills, about 30 kilometers southeast of Rome. Between 1927 and…
The Guinness brewing concern had substantial maritime resources to support distribution of the famous beer. In addition the family spent…
The sailing ship Tayleur was wrecked in January 1854 at Lambay with the loss of 220 of the 670 aboard.…
The fury with which primitive communities descended upon a stricken vessel can only be regarded with a sense of awe.…