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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Oiche Samhain
As a child, Halloween was a lot simpler and cheaper. There again in the mid 1970's with one TV channel and limited radio, the ability of advertisers or foreign TV shows to influence our daily lives was much less than today. Although they are very different...
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars
As a young boy fishing in the river, the one thing I hated more than anything, was keeping up to the nets with an oar. Pity the boy that let his mind wander and the boat blow off the nets, or worse, onto the mud on the flood tide on the coolagh (cool ya) mud. I first...
The Reading Rooms Cheekpoint
Pat Murphy of the Green always told me that according to Aggie Power of Daisy Bank House (Susan Jacobs Grandmother) the Reading Room was built in 1895, the year a horse called The Wild Man of Borneo won the Grand National. Mrs Adelaide Blake, (originally...
The Minaun
We have never had a visitor to the house that we haven't brought to the Minaun. That said, if it was good enough for the local landlord Cornelius Bolton who brought Arthur Young to the summit during his tour of Ireland in the 18th Century, it should be good enough...
The Suirway Bus
Where would we have been without the Suirway bus? In the Cheekpoint of the 1960's to the 80's when cars were scarce and escape from the village was required the choices were few; shanks mare, boat or the Suirway bus! Suirway Bus has been serving the area since 1928...
Cheekpoint Civil Defence unit
I'm not sure when exactly Civil Defence started in the area but I joined in 1978 just as I began first year in De La Salle secondary school. At the time, Peter Power of Faithlegg was the unit leader and each Tuesday night if memory serves we would go up to the...
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