Hobblers
More than seven decades after their dangerous enterprise came to an end Dun Laoghaire families with close links to the…
The Boyd Disaster
February 1861 will be remembered not only for the loss of a great many ships around Dublin Bay but also…
Simon Bolivar
One thousand men of the Irish Legion landed on Venezuela's Margarita Island in August 1819, after a 4,500-mile sea voyage…
John Richardson Wigham
A great inventor and businessman. Actually born in Scotland, he was accused of being Irish, which he never denied. When…
John DeLap
Irish Seamen John Delap Apparently born in Kerry most of what we know about Delap comes from Royal Navy and…
Robert Gibbings, Underwater Artist
Robert Gibbings, An Irish Artist Underwater By Cormac F. LowthFirst published in SUBSEA, the quarterly journal of the Irish Underwater…
John Philip Holland (Submarines)
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Francis Beaufort (Wind Scale)
We are all used to hearing weather forecasts on radio or television predicting ‘Wind Force So-and- So’. How many realise…