January Podcast – How maritime history relates to modern marine developments

Why does Ireland, as an island nation and with its maritime tradition including the long history of the fishing industry, have a traditional fish dish at Christmastime, as other nations do? Historian Antoin O’Callaghan raises that question...

Why does Ireland, an island nation, not have a traditional fish dish for Christmas? Other nations do, so why not Ireland? Appropriately, this month being Christmastime, that question is raised in the December edition of my Podcast by historian...

This month, the story of a determined Irish sailor – a young man who started life on a farm in County Meath, not a maritime location and has become the winner of the top French yacht race – the Figaro. Tom Dolan describes how he succeeded after...

Costly stone churches were an abhorrence to St.Francis, so Franciscan Friars used the excess of discards from shellfish in their building of churches. This is discussed on the October Maritime Podcast in the context of the history of Irish seafood...

The question is now being asked in fishing communities around the coast – does the Government want a fishing industry? There are serious concerns and a deep feeling amongst fishermen, their families and in the industry generally – that...