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Gigs323 views Gigs at the Wooden Pier. Castletownbere Regatta. 1970's
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Bere Island341 viewsThe handover of Bere Island by the British to the Irish Free State, (Saorstát Éireann)
26th September 1938.
Although Southern Ireland won Dominion Status on the 6th December 1921, the United Kingdom retained control as sovereign bases, three deep water ports in Ireland. Known collectively as the Treaty Ports, these were respectively, Castletown Berehaven, Lough Swilly and Queenstown (Cobh)
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Royal Naval Hotel308 viewsBritish Sailors hiring saddle horses and jaunting cars
in front of the Royal Naval Hotel, West End, Castletownbere
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Beara I.F.A. march through Castletownbere. 1970’s305 views
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Christmas came late in 1908243 viewsThe S.S. Irada (Gulf Transport Line) was a cargo ship of 8,124 tons built in Belfast by Workman Clark & Co in 1900 for H. Welsford & Co. She left Galveston, Texas in November 1908 with a mixed cargo of raw cotton and 21,000 bales of cotton bound for Liverpool. On the 22nd of December 1908 she hit rocks off the SW Point of Mizen Head and sank with the loss of Captain Beveridge, four crew members and a stewardess. Subsequently many of the bales washed into Pulleen Harbour to the west of Castletownbere where they were gratefully retrieved by locals in the above Picture. The propeller from the ‘Irada’ was salvaged in 1994 and now rests at Mizen Head Visitor Centre as a memorial to all wrecked ships in the area.
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Kilmacowen334 viewsVictims of the Kilmacowen Evictions
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Kilmacowen Evictions302 viewsVictims of the Kilmacowen Evictions
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ladys Gig Race301 viewsRegatta Day in Castletownbere 1926.
Ladies in boat: Teresa Moriarty (Tim the Master), Droum,
Eileen Harrington, (Dinish) (Cotter),
Mary Lyne The Square (Breen), (?) Cox Donal Harrington, Church Gate.
In the background is the S.S. Princess Beara after arriving
from Bantry for the Regatta.
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Haymaking273 viewsMaking a rick of hay in Cronins’ Knockoura, in the 1950’s
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The Castletownbere Rowing Club’s new gig, ‘Nabro’ 299 viewsTommy Fitzpatrick, (bow), Donal Holland (2), Nealius Duncan (3),
Pat Murphy (stroke) and Gerdie Harrington, as Cox.
18th May 2007
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The Pattern272 viewsDancing on the Pier at Killmacillogue. 1917
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Pillow Fight279 viewspillow fight at Regatta in the 1960's
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Plowing on Dursey Island303 viewsPloughing in Dursey Island in the old days when the island had a large population
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Politics288 viewsPolitics as it should be: Addressing the crowd in the Square, Castletownbere 1932
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Crowd on the Old Pier259 viewsRegatta Day
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Dancing at Dunboy326 viewsDancing at Dunboy in the 1960’s: (Suggested): Monica Holland,
Mairead O’Driscoll, Pauline Hurley, Gillian Murphy, Sean O’Sullivan,
Donal Sullivan, Aidan Downey, Peter Harrington, Mairead O’Sullivan,
Edel Murphy, Pauline O’Brien, Zita Harrington and Deirdre FitzPatrick
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