During the mid-summer of 1920, the West Cork IRA led a daring raid on Fastnet Lighthouse. The British authorities used to store ammunition and more at the famous West Cork landmark because they ...
IT WAS a hazy night in July 1904 and the steamer Alexandra ploughed slowly through the waters of West Cork, as an extraordinary experiment took place on deck. She was a rickety vessel, “as leaky as a ...
A designer has created prints of Irish lighthouses inspired by his boyhood hero Tintin. From Rathlin on the northern tip of the island to Fastnet in Cork on the south coast, Bert Dufour went on his ...
The long sweep of the beam from Ireland’s “teardrop” – west Cork’s Fastnet lighthouse – is due to shorten from Monday, the Irish lighthouse authority has confirmed. However, the Commissioners of Irish ...
It could be the most tranquil day on the Atlantic ocean, with the Fastnet Lighthouse framed against a blue horizon and barely a wisp of a cloud in sight. Despite that, Irish Lights maintenance team ...
A former lighthouse keeper has been honoured at a commemorative event marking the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Fastnet race disaster. A portrait of Gerald Butler by Welsh artist Dan Llywelyn Hall was ...
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