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MARITIME INSTITUTE OF IRELAND

HERITAGE WEEK MARITIME LECTURE SEMINAR

SUNDAY, AUGUST 28TH, 2011

12.30 PM TO 6. PM

DúnLaoghaire Club, Eblana Avenue, DúnLaoghaire


Bismark

12.30 – 1.30 pm. Neutral Ireland’s Role in the Sinking of the BISMARK, May, 1941

By Dr. Michael Kennedy, Executive Editor, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Royal Irish Academy.

1.30 – 2.30 pm. Traditional Boats of Ireland. - Wooden workboats from all the Maritime Counties of Ireland.

By Darina Tully, Lecturer and Maritime Archaeologist.

2.30 – 3.30 pm. Too Many Bags in the Lifeboat.  A Lifeboat Tragedy at Bray 1876

By  James Scannell, Lecturer and P.R.O of the Old Dublin Society.


Lady Gwendolan

4.00 – 5.00 pm. Maritime Guinness, The Ships, Yachts and Barges of the Guinness Dynasty.

By Dr. Edward Bourke, Diver, Maritime Historian and Author of “Guinness, the Family, the Business and the Black Stuff”

5.00 – 6.00 pm. Ireland’s Armada Heritage.  The Story of the Spanish Armada of 1588.

The discoveries of the wrecks on the Irish Coast and the recovery of artifacts.

By Cormac Lowth, Lecturer, Author and Diver.

Further information Barney Yourell 087 900 7466

No seminar charge – donations accepted