Stories by author "Declan Byrne": 2
Stories
Three Remarkable Dockers
Michael Donnelly
Later to become a docker, Michael Donnelly joined the Irish Citizen Army at a very young age and fought against British occupation in Ireland during the 1916 uprising as part of the Stephen’s Green Battalion. In May 1920, using…
A Dublin Docker's Funeral
At one stage in Dublin Port, roughly as many ships were worked outside the dock gates as inside. Ships were worked on the North Wall and along the South Quays.
Cranes would lower their gibs into the ship's hatches, where cargo would be put on…