Title: Famous Irish MarinersAuthor: Emma ByrnePublication date: September 22, 2025ISBN 9781788494922 PRICE €17.99/£15.99 HBFORMAT 196x129 mm EXTENT 176ppAlso available as an eBook.Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous –
- Title: Famous Irish Mariners
- Author: Emma Byrne
- Publication date: September 22, 2025
- ISBN 9781788494922 PRICE €17.99/£15.99 HB
- FORMAT 196x129 mm EXTENT 176pp
- Also available as an eBook.
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.
In this new book, Emma Byrne looks at the men and women of Irish maritime history.
‘As an island nation, we Irish have a love and fascination for the sea. The first people in prehistoric times most likely came to Ireland by boat; since then we have sailed, fished, smuggled and fought our way through history and to every corner of the world, with the sea entwined in our DNA. It is a briny elixir that binds us.
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