Time & Tide, Volume 12, published September 2020, contains ten papers on diverse topics from the archive of Skerries Historical Society. They include two papers on industrial history, two papers concerning entertainment, two papers reviewing Skerries maritime history at different periods, a personal recollection of Kenure House, musings on aspects of Skerries culture in the early twentieth century, a study of a townland in the 19th century and a study of the use of tufa in Skerries buildings.
Contents
Show Boat and the Marian Society Forty Years On – George Hand
Skerries and All That Followed – J. M. Duff
Skerries Electricity Works 1915 – 1940 – Hugh Halpin
Kenure House – A Personal memoir – George Pratt
A Backward Glance Extracts– Paddy Halpin
The Townland of Hacketstown Part 4 1817 – 1921 – Maree Baker & Maighread Ni Mhurchadha
The Tower – Joseph Heffernan
Skerries Phonebook, 1954 – Bob Laird
Boats that have Sailed out of Skerries – Christopher Fox
Tufa Stone in Medieval Fingal and Beyond – Niall Roycroft
Volume 12 – please choose your shipping destination.
To Ireland (per book incl P&P): €18.00
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Time & Tide is also on sale at several local shops:
- Skerries Mills
- Skerries Bookshop, 77 Strand St.
- Greg Reddin (Infosystems), 66 Strand St.
Alternatively, email librarian@oldskerries.ie and have the book(s) mailed to you (postage payable).
