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Transports of delight
While this site is about waterways transport, a railway or two has sneaked in, and so it may be permissible to mention road transport too. The transport museum at Howth is looking after as aspect of...
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Nomit Cire
Filed under: Ireland, People, waterways Tagged: Eric Timon, Grand Canal, howth, Ireland, Lough Derg, pooka, Shannon
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The cost of parking a boat
On the east side of Dublin Poolbeg: €280 per metre for a year plus membership; €20 a night for visitors. Dun Laoghaire: €435 per metre with facilities for a year, €290 per metre without; €3.60 per...
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Splendid chaps, these arty types
I take it all back: I’ll never say another rude word about art gallery folk. Well, not many, anyway. The splendid folk at the National Gallery of Ireland have an online searchable archive that allows...
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Rail, road and river: steam in 1829
Four news items, all in the Varieties section of the Hampshire Chronicle on 19 October 1829. Rail The trial of the locomotive carriages near Liverpool was continued on Saturday, when Mr Stephenson’s...
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The madness of Daniel O’Connell
In 1828 Daniel O’Connell was elected to the House of Commons for County Clare. As a Roman Catholic, he could not take the Oath of Supremacy [Frizzell, the illustrator, seems to have got his date wrong]...
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Speedy communication
New Post Office Steam Packet By the arrival of the Packet we received yesterday, at the early hour of three o’clock, pm, the London Mail of Tuesday. Had we stated a few years ago the probability of...
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