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Tides & Tales is a free-to-access site. We profile the best of Waterford and the surrounding areas’ maritime heritage.
Since 2014 we have continued to offer high quality content every month showcasing the richness of our maritime past. The story count is now exceeds 500 tales of ships, trades, people and the communities of the area.
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The Waterford man who sailed with Captain James Cook
Captain James Cook is a renowned explorer who led three separate expeditions into the largely unknown Pacific in the late 1700's and claimed much of it for his country. But he had the help of at least one Waterford man, a certain William Doyle, who has a headstone...
The unique but crumbling “Spider Light”
Let us honour if we can, the vertical man Though we value none, but the horizontal one W.H.Auden These lines from Auden often come to mind when someone dies, particularly when I realise just how much I used to rely on them or value them. I've mentioned this about my...
Jack Meades or Half Way House
Jack Meade's is one of Waterford's, if not the country's, most popular pubs/restaurants. Like all businesses it has had to adapt and diversify to remain viable, and given that it's over 300 years old, its seen more than a bit of change down the years. The pub itself...
Meeting of the “Three Sisters”
After 50 years of living with the geographical feature that is the meeting of the Three Sisters, you might think that I would take it for granted at this point. Truth is though, I can't ever remember a time that the rivers fail to interest me. Ever changing and...
Waterford harbour kidnappers
I first heard about the press gang menace while fishing for salmon in the river as a child. The story was introduced, like so many others by my father, in a dramatic way. We were drifting on the ebb tide at night, off Ryan's shore, when we heard a boat rowing...
The light that sweeps the harbour
One of my earliest childhood memories was playing with my siblings in the old house on the hill in Coolbunnia one chilly summer morning. The scene was unsettling to us I remember, because our usual/familiar view of the harbour, the three rivers flowing our towards...
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