IRELAND’S GRAND CANAL : People, Peat & Porter is the first in a new series of “Studies from our Waterways” from the Heritage Boat Association. It is based on a dissertation written by Eunice Jeffers. It looks at canal development in general and the Grand Canal in particular and covers the history of one canal boat in particular which was in the Jeffers family for a time. It also looks at the lives of some of the people associated with the boat and the canal. Copiously illustrated, it contains some images from the Shortall collection. Full colour, paperback, 40pages.