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Carnsore Point
Jim Hurley describes the outstanding features of Carnsore Point, its natural beauty and its biodiversity in an interview with James L. Smith of Ports, Past and Present.
Flossie and the Beach Cleaners
Flossie is 13 and has cared about the environment since she was 9 years old. Her love for the planet but most especially the oceans and seas has come from her mother, Harriet.
Harriet spoke to Jonathan Evershed about the origins of the Flossie and…
Welcome to Rosslare Harbour
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Working on the Ferries and in the Tourist Office
Agnes Ferguson sat down with Ports, Past and Present to share her family history of her grandfather and father working in the port, meeting her husband on a ferry to Fishguard and her own work for the tourist office.
Memorable Boat Trips
Agnes Ferguson sat down with Ports, Past and Present and talked about her most memorable boat trips of the past which allowed her to experience television, the sampling of deliciously cold soft drinks and the nearby lighthouse for the first time.
Rosslare's Welsh Cousins
Agnes Ferguson sat down with Ports, Past and Present and shared her memories of taking the ferry across the Irish Sea ever since she was a child, to visit family and friends living in and around Fishguard.
Growing up in Rosslare
Agnes Ferguson sat down with Ports, Past and Present and shared her memories of her family, growing up in Rosslare and the special scent of the wild lupines by the beach.
Magpies on an Easterly Wind
In the school book for Wexford town, gathered by teacher Victoria M. Sherwood, we find this transcribed clipping from the Wexford Free Press paper, describing the origins of the magpie in Ireland:
It is said that the first magpies that came to…
Swans on the South Slob
Wexford and its slobs were walled off from the harbour and reclaimed from the sea in the 1840s, forming a polderland that has become a hotspot for biodiversity. The North Slob is now home to the Wexford Wildfowl Reserve, 200 hectares of flat…
Farewell Old Dublin
Oh Dublin, oh Dublin, what have you done, with your posh Georgian houses, now tenement slums!
And the cats and rats and kids in bare feet, and their poor mother and fathers with little to eat, but cold porridge from penny-dinners that you call a…