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Harbour Sentinel – Hook Lighthouse

by andrew | Dec 15, 2017 | Irish Lighthouses, River Lore, Shipwrecks

This weekend we commemorate the loss of the ships SS Formby and SS Coningbeg in December 1917.  It’s a topic I covered last week with a view to promoting the commemoration this weekend.  In thinking about the sailors who perished this week I came to realise that...

The light that sweeps the harbour

by andrew | Apr 8, 2016 | Irish Lighthouses, River Lore, Shipwrecks

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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