Category: War

ISL and Lemass

This article has been written to give people a sense of conditions in Ireland during the early years of the…

Folia

The SS Folia is a popular dive site off the Waterford coast. Here we learn the story of this once…

Audacious Secret

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

U-20

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

Guardships at Kingstown

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

Leinster

U-boats sink the Mail-Boat and Many More in the Irish Channel The Atlantic Gateway Jim Phelan 1941 When ships crossed…

Irish WWII Losses

How Ireland´s Mercantile Marine fared during WWII by Frank Forde, author of "The Long Watch", the standard work on this…