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Rowing to Dublin …
… to visit King Dan. In prison. From Kerry, via the Grand Canal.Filed under: Extant waterways, Irish inland waterways vessels, People, Politics, shannon estuary Tagged: Blennerville, boats, Daniel...
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Another attack on canalside trees
[Jeremy] Bentham would have been further interested to know that the Great Agitator[Daniel O’Connell] and Purcell O’Gorman, during a tedious journey by canal boat from Dublin, amused themselves firing...
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Wordling Repeal
On 22 April 1834 Daniel O’Connell, MP for Dublin but a native of Kerry, argued in the House of Commons at Westminster for, IIRC, five hours in favour of the repeal of the Act of Union. Here is what...
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The Repealer
Here is a brief account of a trip from Waterford to new Ross by steamer in 1842.Filed under: Economic activities, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish inland...
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Arthur’s Day
There is quite a modern branch of trade risen up in Ireland — I mean the exportation of Dublin porter. I am not a proprietor in the brewery, and, in praising the beverage, which I consider most...
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Who he?
Question 3651, put to George Halpin, Inspector of Works at the Ballast Board, Dublin, at a session of the House of Commons Select Committee on the Dublin and Kingstown Ship Canal on 16 July 1833,...
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Drawbacks of canals
There was a proposal in the 1830s for a ship canal along the coast, outside the railway embankment, from Dublin to the asylum harbour at Kingstown. A preliminary report was provided by William Cubitt...
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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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Ballinasloe again
Another account, this dated 1838, of a trip by Grand Canal Company passage-boat from Dublin to Ballinasloe.Filed under: Canals, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Historical matters, Ireland,...
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A distinguished visitor to the Shannon
Dwarkanauth Tagore, of Calcutta, the distinguished and princely East Indian, who is making a tour of the United Kingdom, arrived in this city, on Tuesday evening with his suit [sic], in an elegant drag...
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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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The good old English plan
Browsing the Dublin Morning Register of 1 August 1828, I came across this item, taken from the Waterford Mirror: On Tuesday, John Purcell Fitzgerald, of London, Esq, entertained his numerous tenantry...
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In Liberator: the life and death of Daniel O’Connell 1830–1847 [Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 2010], the second volume of his biography of O’Connell, Patrick M Geoghegan writes On 5 January 1839 a...
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Scratch-cards on the Shannon
Mr O’Connell and a very numerous deputation had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street, respecting a lottery for the improvement of the Shannon. London Courier...
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