Research
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The Tides & Tales Maritime Community Project currently has in excess of 500 free-to-access blogs or primary research pieces, on the local maritime heritage available. All of this is free and available to the public and we have plans for much more. Feel free to search the site, use the blog categorisations or contact the project if you require help.
In some cases this is a simple process of sharing details already to hand. We always endevour to respond. Others require further research, including linking with third parties to try and find satisfactory responses.
If you need further or more detailed research, including the references, either on an existing blog or any matter related to the maritime history of the Waterford area or beyond we would be happy to receive such requests. However, in order to sustain the project we may need to charge a research fee.
If you have a research question please contact our Coordinator through the contact page on our site. The Coordinator will assess the query and let you know the query type and cost. For example:
€0 – Straight forward query with information readily to hand.
€20 – Basic Query – supplying information we have on file or relatively easy to access.
€50 – Intermediate Query – This could be defined as a question requiring further research and time.
€90 – Advanced Query – This relates to queries that require reaching out to relevant third parties.
All funds raised will go towards sustaining the Tides & Tales Maritime Community Project and making it possible to provide the blogs and this valuable resource material.
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Cheekpoint sailors in a River Mersey rescue
On Saturday night, 12th Nov 1955 my Father, Bob Doherty and two others from Cheekpoint, my Uncle John and Jimmy (O'Dea) Doherty, were departing Liverpool as seamen aboard the MV Ocean Coast in dense fog. They were carrying general cargo and were bound for Falmouth....
The SS Alfred D Snow and Cheekpoint Green
When I was a child I used to come to the cottage on the Green on Sundays, long weekends and summer holidays. It was my Grandparents, Tommy and May White's house and it was always full of cousins, aunts and uncles and lots of gatherings and parties were held there. ...
SS Pembroke and Cheekpoint
SS Pembroke - AH Poole Collection NLI The SS Pembroke was built of steel by Laird Brothers of Birkenhead, in the year 1880 and was originally a paddle steamer. The Pembroke was registered at the Port of Milford. In 1896 the ship was altered by the shipyard into a...
Cheekpoint and the Three Sisters – The influence of the river on the community
The Cheekpoint Fishing Heritage Project will host a social evening in the Reading Room Cheekpoint on Saturday 23rd Aug 2014 at 7.30 - 10pm. The event has a charge of €5 but senior citizens and children are free. Funds raised will go towards the running costs of the...
Water water everywhere…
Politicians in Ireland are currently at each others throats on the matter of water charges. Whatever your political views, which probably lie on or between two polar opposites – that water is a human right and should be provided free out of existing taxes, to water...
The Irish Folklore commission’s visit to Faithlegg National School 1937
In 1937, the Irish Folklore Commission visited Faithlegg National School, then situated on the Old Road. They asked pupils in the boys class to go home and interview their relatives or elderly neighbours and to write down the stories about the village or area...
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