Without question, Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, was the dominant figure on Ireland’s Blackwater Valley for the first forty years of the 17th century. Indeed, the entrepreneur from Canterbury was one of the most extraordinary and powerful characters in Western...
ROSIE HACKETT (1893-1976) By Turtle Bunbury In September 2013, Dublin City Council voted to name the newest bridge across the Liffey after trade union activist and 1916 veteran Rosie Hackett. Liberty Hall, March 1916. Rosie Hackett held her nerve, as she always did....
The greatest bridge builder of his generation learned his craft while singeing hair off sheep's heads in a blacksmith's forge as a boy. He went on to build works such as the Forth Bridge and the Tay bridge in Scotland, the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, the Arrol...
