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The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were a boom period for Irish waterways. HM Treasury had cash to burn and influential Irish MPs were keen to bring money home in the form of infrastructure investment.
As navigation by waterway became faster and easier, new possibilities opened up: fresh eggs and bacon to Liverpool for breakfast, a ready supply of turf to Limerick to fuel the distillery, bogs drained for arable land, and fast comfortable trips to Kilkee to take the sea air.
Based on a collection of the late Brian J Goggin’s extensive research and writings on Irish waterways, this book tells the story of those improvements and of many diversions along the way: waterways which were never completed, debauchery in the canals of Dublin, cargoes stolen, workers on strike and boats sunk.
This is a selection of what his family hope you will find to be interesting articles on interesting subjects, rather than a comprehensive history of Ireland’s waterways.
The book is a has a hardback cover with a paper slip. It measures 24.1 x 17 x 2.8cm
