Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach – a thousand years before Columbus, to daring polar explorers Ernest Shackleton and Tom Crean. Read the stirring adventures of the Irish people who have helped to shape marine science.
Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea.Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach – a thousand years before Columbus, to daring polar explorers Ernest Shackleton and Tom Crean.Read the stirring adventures of Ireland’s seafaring women, from Granuaile to Kate Tyrrell, and naval leaders such as John Barry, who fought sea battles in the Americas. Irish people have helped to shape marine science, including Francis Beaufort, who devised the scale by which we measure wind speeds, marine biologist Maude Delap and John Holland, inventor of the submarine.
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wonderful, wonderful book -- South East Radios Morning Mix a credit to your research skills and sheer tenacity. You've somehow managed to distil the lives of complex characters into a format readable by all, which is quite an achievement, because maritime books can often be difficult to engage with for those without seagoing knowledge your book will be of considerable value to the Maritime Museum's objective of attracting the attention of adult and younger readers to engage with and research Ireland's little known maritime history -- Richard McCormick, President Emeritus, Maritime Institute of Ireland
Maps
Chronology
Introduction
Early Navigators
Brendan of Clonfert
Great Naval Leaders
John Barry
William Brown
Peter Campbell
Bartholomew Hayden
Thomas Charles Wright
Robert Halpin
John de Robeck
Andrew Cunningham
James Forrestal
Marine Scientists
Francis Beaufort
John Philip Holland
Maude Delap and Annie Massey
Pirates
Granuaile
Anne Bonny
Polar Explorers
Francis Crozier
Robert McClure
Ernest Shackleton
Tom Crean
Worthy of Note
James Leander Cathcart
Kate Tyrrell
Conor OBrien
Gottfried von Banfield
References
Photograph Credits
Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards for her design including The IDI (Irish Design Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year, the IDI Promotional Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning, and a Childrens Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning With P: New Poems from Irish Poets. She has illustrated many books, including Best-Loved Oscar Wilde, Best-Loved Yeats, The Most Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl ONeill, a special edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, and A Terrible Beauty by Mairéad Ashe Fitzgerald. Her other books are Irish Thatch and, with Eoin OBrien, Best-Loved Irish Ballads.
