by andrew | Apr 27, 2018 | Built Heritage, Irelands Maritime Heritage, Maritime Wexford, Waterford History
April’s guest blog comes from a page regular, my cousin, James Doherty. Today he’s talking about a topic that was very much part of some recent blogs and presentations I gave on the Paddle Steamer service that ran between the city and Duncannon. In this...
by andrew | Apr 20, 2018 | Irelands Maritime Heritage, Waterford History
While collecting my daughter from a bus recently I happened across a limestone slab set into the pavement behind the Waterford bus station. It was battered, damaged and out of place, but the inscription was legible. It reads In Memory of Louis C Lee of Aberdeen. ...
by andrew | Apr 13, 2018 | Dunmore East, Irelands Maritime Heritage, Royal Navy, Shipwrecks, World War I
There was plenty of drama along the Irish coast in the First World War, some of which was directly played out in the harbour, whilst others eventually washed up, or in this case was towed into, the harbour. One such story is of the SS Hermione, a saga that continued...
by andrew | Apr 6, 2018 | Irelands Maritime Heritage, River Lore, Waterford History
Generally, ships in distress receive a welcome in any port, but this was not so with the Liverpool barque Sparkling Wave. For the ship was carrying an explosive cargo, of such a quantity, the city fathers of Waterford could not permit her into their port for fear of...
by andrew | Apr 1, 2018 | Cheekpoint memories
As the Irish Russian diplomatic tensions deepen, it came as a complete shock to the tiny neighbourhood of the Russianside, Cheekpoint, Co Waterford, to learn that they were to face mass deportation over the Easter weekend. News of the deportation broke on Thursday...
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