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The 120′ Irish steam-powered narrow boat
Read about it here.Filed under: Built heritage, Charles Wye Williams, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish...
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CWW bridge
Paul Quinn’s photos showed the new Marlborough Street Bridge being constructed across the Liffey. Last Saturday’s Irish Times reported that Dublin City Council would soon be advertising to seek...
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The Charles Wye Williams bridge campaign
Dublin City Council has published its call for proposals for naming the new bridge across the Liffey. According to RTE, various bolshies and literary types have been suggested, as though we didn’t have...
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Composite construction on Irish inland waterways
I wrote here about Watson’s Double Canal Boat, saying inter alia that, in 1839, William Watson, manager of the inland department of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, patented: an improvement in...
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The Mahmoudié Canal
There is a possible link between the Mahmoudié Canal, which ran from Alexandria to the Nile, and Irish waterways. I have not managed to establish a definite link to this Irish canal-boat but it is not...
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The American and Colonial Steam Navigation Company
What a collection of notables …. Provisional Committee of 1836 Captain Beaufort RN, Hydrographer to the Admiralty The Right Hon Maurice A Fitzgerald Simon M’Gillivray Esq The Right Hon Lord Talbot de...
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Hibernia
I see that P&O Cruises [about which there is a not-very-accurate Wikipedia page here: not very accurate, I mean, about the history of the P&O Line] will seek public suggestions for a name for...
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Manby, Napier, Oldham, Williams, Grantham
Here is a piece about the Aaron Manby, the first iron steamer to make a sea voyage, and its links to Irish inland waterways transport. The piece was first published in the rally magazine of the Inland...
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The Traveller’s Map of the River Shannon (1830)
The Traveller’s Map of the River Shannon. Arranged as a Guide to its Lakes and the Several Towns, Gentlemens’ Seats, Ancient Castles, Ruins, Mines, Quarries, Trading Stations, and General Scenery on...
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Lough Derg Regatta 1834 (b)
Yesterday I posted a notice from the Limerick Chronicle of 20 August 1834, outlining the schedule of events for the regatta to be held on Lough Derg later that month. In a comment, Vincent Delany M.A....
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