Irish WWII Losses
How Ireland's Mercantile Marine fared during WWII by Frank Forde, author of 'The Long Watch', the standard work on this…
The First World War at sea off West Cork
The ferocity of the First World War evokes names like the Somme, Verdun, Paschendale and Mons and maybe Jutland or…
HMS A5 (Forgotten Submariners) Lost at Cobh
Early in 1999, Chief Petty Officer Owen O'Keeffe of the Irish Naval Service was visiting Old Church Cemetery near Cobh,…
The Flanders Flotilla and U-Boat Alley
The repeated claims that America declared against Germany during WW1 because her citizens and ships had been attacked by German…
LOP 6 Howth Head
Firstly I’d like to look at Howth Head LOP in the general context of the Coast Watching Service and talk…
G2, the coast-watching service and the Battle of the Atlantic
This paper is an early version of the introduction to the Guarding Neutral Ireland: the coastwatching service and military intelligence…
Early Irish Free State Naval Activity
Eddie Bourke Dainty The early years of the Irish Free State from January 1922 were a time of turmoil after…
MV Kerlogue
Irish ships were neutral during the war. The Kerlogue story is interesting as she was attacked by both sides and…
Rochdale and Prince of Wales
These troop ships were lost on their way to the Napoleonic Wars. Over 400 bodies washed up on an urban…
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…