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  • Biodiversity for Community Spaces

    Biodiversity for Community Spaces

    The Irish Community Archive Network presents an online talk with ecologist Janice Fuller, who shares some ideas for protecting and ...
  • Bellacorrick Musical Bridge

    Bellacorrick Musical Bridge

    This Bridge at Ballacorrick in County Mayo spanned the Owenmore River.  It was constructed ‘by order of the Grand Jury ...
  • Biodiversity for Citizen Scientists

    Biodiversity for Citizen Scientists

    The Irish Community Archive Network presents this fascinating talk with plant ecologist Dr Fran Giaquinto, on what it means to ...
  • Memories of Zulu luggers in Mullaghmore

    Memories of Zulu luggers in Mullaghmore

    The Last of the Windjammers The greatest era of sail in the Northwest was introduced to Mullaghmore c.1913 when, with the ...
  • Achill’s Hanging Valley

    Achill’s Hanging Valley

    The basement rocks of Achill &the Curraun Peninsula are the oldest in Ireland.  They dated to the Pre – Cambrian ...
  • Memories of catching my first trout

    Memories of catching my first trout

    My memory of the first fishing experience with my grandfather goes back to 1948 when I was just 8 years ...
  • Martello Towers in Ireland

    Martello Towers in Ireland

    ‘In 1793 Corsica was in insurrection against the French, and the British Government, as a matter of policy, decided to ...
  • McCann boatyard records

    McCann boatyard records

    All the records of McCann boatyard activities (orders, invoices and correspondence/record books ) including correspondence from Lord Mountbatten thanking the ...
  • The Galway Buzz - Buzz na Gaillimhe

    The Galway Buzz - Buzz na Gaillimhe

    A National Biodiversity Week programme Connecting People with Nature
  • Connaught’s Coronation Stone

    Connaught’s Coronation Stone

    Ó Broin Tomás’s Celtica, 29 199 (pages 393 – 401) Show Less in A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology] describes the ...
  • Errew Abbey

    Errew Abbey

    Errew Abbey in County Mayo was a two – bay double – height single – cell Chapel constructed circa 1845 ...
  • Augustinian Abbey Ardnaree

    Augustinian Abbey Ardnaree

    The Ardnaree Abbey in Ballina gateway has a visual impact on Cathedral Road at the entrance to the Abbey grounds. This ...
  • Michael Walsh and Michael Madden Currach Making

    Michael Walsh and Michael Madden Currach Making

    My grand uncle Michael “Bobby”Walsh was a boat and Currach builder from Inishturk south, he mover to the mainland near ...
  • Memories of Tremone Bay, County Donegal

    Memories of Tremone Bay, County Donegal

    These are the memories of Neil McFeely of boating and shipping along the eastern coast of the Inishowen peninsula, county ...
  • Fanad Currachs, Co. Donegal

    Fanad Currachs, Co. Donegal

  • Oughterard Boat Builder -Tommy Mallon

    Oughterard Boat Builder -Tommy Mallon

    Larch and oak Tommy Mallon standing beside a Carval built fishing boat. Tommy built 9-10 of these boats in the 1970s ...
  • Shannon Pilots

    Shannon Pilots

    My family (on my mother’s side) hail from Scattery Island on the Shannon. My Uncle, Grandfather, Great Grandfather were Marine ...
  • BIM 26 Footers - Belderrig, Co Mayo

    BIM 26 Footers - Belderrig, Co Mayo

    Picture taken in Belderrig Co Mayo pier 1964. 4 new 26 foot timber boats (known as BIM 26 footers) With a 8 ...
  • Traditional boat construction (Naimhòg) sometimes called a canoe at Maharees

    Traditional boat construction (Naimhòg) sometimes called a canoe at Maharees

    Photo shows three generations of the Leary family (Murt, Michael & Monty) , Maharees , Co Kerry , naomhòg makers ...
  • Boatbuilding near Louisburgh

    Boatbuilding near Louisburgh

    This an article I wrote for the Louisburgh Parish magazine, “An Choinneall” for the 2014 edition.
  • The marriage of Shipwrights and Lighthouse Keepers.

    The marriage of Shipwrights and Lighthouse Keepers.

    I come from a family of shipwrights and lighthouse keepers. My great great grandfather, a shipwright, left Kilkenny for Ayrshire, ...
  • The Punt Guns and Punt Boat, Clarecastle, Co. Clare

    The Punt Guns and Punt Boat, Clarecastle, Co. Clare

    Image of punt guns courtesy of John Power, all other images courtesy of Eric Shaw  
  • Net-fishing for salmon on the River Fergus, at Clarecastle, Co. Clare

    Net-fishing for salmon on the River Fergus, at Clarecastle, Co. Clare

    The boat used by the Clarecastle net-fishermen for many years was known as a gandalow, a design of boat used ...
  • Developing Your Digital Skills: Introduction to Digitisation

    Developing Your Digital Skills: Introduction to Digitisation

    Join Sean Rippington, Digital Archivist and Copyright Manager, University of St Andrews in the first of our webinar series on ...
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