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Lecture: Dublin Port 1500 A.D. To the Present

Jun 28th

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A talk will be given at EWWSG (East Wall Water Sports Group) just off the Alfie Byrne Road at the entrance to East Point Business Park on Thurs  28th of June at 7:30 by Eddie Bourke on “Dublin Port 1500 A.D. To the Present” as part of the East Wall Festival Week. More information from:…

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Sligo International Symposium Programme

Jun 23rd

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The main aim of this symposium is to gather information on work done to date in Ireland on Spanish Armada shipwrecks, in particular those buried at Streedagh and to look at new methodologies in shipwreck excavation, survey, research and conservation. This information can then be used to help develop awareness at a national and international scale through professional and positive ways.

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Titanic in Song

Jun 15th

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Dara MacMahon and Gerry Noonan accompanied by Pauline Cooper in the Maritime Museum, Friday 15 June, 8pm  tickets €10 Explore the Titanic story through the songs heard and played by the passengers on the ship from the light classical and musical comedy numbers familiar to the 1st and 2nd class passengers to the music hall,…

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Sea Shanties – Hooks&Crooks and the Riggerlofters, Norway

Jun 13th

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On Wednesday 13 June 2012 at 7pm Sea Shanties will be sung in the museum by
Hooks and Crookes from Ireland and the Riggerlofters from Norway

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President Michael D. Higgins officially re-opened the Old Mariners Church and Maritime Museum

Jun 5th

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  Tuesday 5 June, 2012 11:30 a.m. President Michael D. Higgins officially re-opened the Old Mariners Church and Maritime Museum, Dún Laoghaire     Remarks by President Michael D. Higgins at the re-opening of the National Maritime Museum, Old Mariners Church, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Tuesday, 5th June 2012 A Chairde, It is a great pleasure to be…

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Book: Neutral Shores by Mark McShane

Jun 1st

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A new book “Neutral Shores” by Mark McShane will be published on 1 June 2012. Neutral Shores, Ireland and the Battle of the Atlantic, tells the largely untold story of how many merchant navy ships during the war were attacked and sunk, and their surviving crews left adrift on the hostile Atlantic Ocean in a desperate struggle for survival. For the fortunate ones sanctuary was found along Ireland’s rugged Atlantic shores, where the local people took these men from the sea into their homes and cared for them without any consideration of their nationality or allegiances to any of the belligerent nations.