Ireland’s Maritime History Told Through Adventure And Lives
Explorers, sailors, scientists and innovators shape this lively account of Ireland’s long relationship with the sea. Rich in adventure yet easy to read, it is a rewarding history for anyone curious about the people who helped navigate, fight, discover and invent across generations of seafaring life.
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Famous Irish Mariners
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Ireland’s Maritime History Told Through Adventure And Lives
Explorers, sailors, scientists and innovators shape this lively account of Ireland’s long relationship with the sea. Rich in adventure yet easy to read, it is a rewarding history for anyone curious about the people who helped navigate, fight, discover and invent across generations of seafaring life.
- Book Synopsis
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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.
Ideal for readers who:
- Enjoy lively history rooted in Ireland’s long relationship with the sea
- Are intrigued by explorers, inventors and naval figures with remarkable stories
- Want voyages that stretch from currach crossings to polar expeditions
- Prefer accessible nonfiction that blends adventure with real historical insight
- About The Author
- Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards for her design including The IDI (Irish Design Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year, the IDI Promotional Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning, and a Children's Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning With P: New Poems from Irish Poets. She has illustrated many books, including Best-Loved Oscar Wilde, Best-Loved Yeats, The Most Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl O'Neill, a special edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, and A Terrible Beauty by Mairéad Ashe Fitzgerald. Her other books are Irish Thatch and, with Eoin O'Brien, Best-Loved Irish Ballads.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781788494922
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- The O'Brien Press, (22 September 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 176
- Weight
- 383 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 196 x 129 x 18 mm
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