Famous Irish Mariners

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-09-22
Mått129 x 196 x 18 mm
Vikt383 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor168
FörlagO'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN9781788494922

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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.

Maps Chronology Introduction Early Navigators Brendan of Clonfert Great Naval Leaders John Barry William Brown Peter Campbell Bartholomew Hayden Thomas Charles Wright Robert Halpin John de Robeck Andrew Cunningham James Forrestal Marine Scientists Francis Beaufort John Philip Holland Maude Delap and Annie Massey Pirates Granuaile Anne Bonny Polar Explorers Francis Crozier Robert McClure Ernest Shackleton Tom Crean Worthy of Note James Leander Cathcart Kate Tyrrell Conor O’Brien Gottfried von Banfield References Photograph Credits