Results for subject term "Ireland": 7
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Earlier Prehistoric Harbours in Ireland and Britain | Harbyrau Cynhanesyddol Cynharach yn Iwerddon a Phrydain
This is a subject about which little is known, and only a retired academic would be rash enough to take it on. But there are interesting possibilities to consider. That is why I recently wrote a book called Maritime Archaeology on Dry Land. It was…
Everything's Coming Up Shamrocks
Legend goes that St Patrick, a Christian missionary to Ireland in the fifth century, used the leaves of the shamrock to explain the concept of the holy trinity: the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
Ireland's tourism identity has long used the symbol of…
Virginia Woolf Travels to Ireland, 1934 | Virginia Woolf yn teithio i Iwerddon, 1934
Virginia Woolf travelled widely in Britain and Europe throughout her life, but visited Ireland only once. On 27 April 1934, she sailed out from Fishguard to Cork for a motoring tour with her husband Leonard, visiting the novelist Elizabeth Bowen at…
Stepping Stone between Wales and Ireland? | Carreg Gamu rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon?
Looking across the Irish Sea to Snowdonia in Wales on a bright snowclad morning is a disconcerting experience. From Wicklow, Wexford and even parts of Dublin it seems as though you could walk across to the Welsh coastline, and there are some…
Mariners' Church, Kingstown in the Nineteenth Century
The Mariners’ Church, Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire) which is today the home of Ireland’s National Maritime Museum was once the principal Church of Ireland in the town. It was a thriving church throughout the nineteenth century with its local…
Peerless Jim Driscoll and Little Ireland, Cardiff
Peerless Jim Driscoll (1880-1925) was an outstanding boxer of Irish heritage. Driscoll is described as ‘a fighter who is always mentioned in lists of the greatest pugilists never to have won a world title’. Driscoll grew up in an extremely poor…
Waterford Harbour's role in the construction of St. John's Cathedral in Newfoundland, Canada
Along the river Barrow, nestled upon a Caledonian batholith, on the Kilkenny side of the bank, lies a little town named Graiguenamanagh. It is in this village that our story begins, with a man called Gorman who was busy cutting Granite on the Quay…