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Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea.
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.
Contents
Maps
Chronology
Introduction
Early Navigators
Brendan of Clonfert
Great Naval Leaders
John Barry
William Brown
Peter Campbell
Bartholomew Hayden
Thomas Charles Wright
Robert Halpin
John de Robeck
Andrew Cunningham
James Forrestal
Marine Scientists
Francis Beaufort
John Philip Holland
Maude Delap and Annie Massey
Pirates
Granuaile
Anne Bonny
Polar Explorers
Francis Crozier
Robert McClure
Ernest Shackleton
Tom Crean
Worthy of Note
James Leander Cathcart
Kate Tyrrell
Conor O'Brien
Gottfried von Banfield
References
Photograph Credits
