Category Archives: Foreign parts

For qualified MIT pirates only

Posted on Saturday 17 February 2018 | 3 comments

Curricukum: archery, fencing, pistol (or rifle) and sailing. But

The MIT Pirate certificate is for entertainment purposes only and does not give the recipient license to engage in piracy or any pirate activities.

Spoilsports.

h/t Tyler Cowen

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Foxton locks drained

Posted on Saturday 10 February 2018 | 3 comments

Jonathan Calder reports on the open day at the locks, now drained for maintenance.

Read about the Foxton inclined plane (nach maireann) here.

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Posted in Built heritage, Canals, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Foreign parts, Historical matters, Industrial heritage, Operations, waterways, Waterways management, Weather

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Get out of jail free cards

Posted on Monday 22 January 2018 | Leave a comment

An American innovation.

Nothing like that in Ireland, of course.

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Shannon Princess

Posted on Thursday 18 January 2018 | 3 comments

The African Queen, formerly the Shannon Princess (1), is for sale.

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Posted in Economic activities, Extant waterways, Foreign parts, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, Shannon, Tourism

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The bells of St Clement’s

Posted on Friday 12 January 2018 | Leave a comment

Isn’t economic history fun?

In this article, we argue that the mafia arose as a response to an exogenous shock in the demand for oranges and lemons, following Lind’s discovery in the late eighteenth century that citrus fruits cured scurvy. More specifically, we claim that mafia appeared in locations where producers made high profits from citrus production for overseas export.

h/t Matt Levine, the thinking man’s guide to Wall Street.

 

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Maggie May: Liverpool 1840

Posted on Tuesday 9 January 2018 | Leave a comment
Brothels

31st December 1839: 591
31st December 1840: 568
Decrease: 23

Number of those existing in 1839 which were still open on 31st December 1840: 435
Number opened in 1840: 133
Number closed in 1840: 156

Proprietors having given up keeping these houses: 88
Proprietors having been reformed: 35
Proprietors in prison: 20
Proprietors having been transported: 4
Proprietors having died: 9

Number of prostitutes 31st December 1839: 2057
Number of prostitutes 31st December 1840: 2083
Increase: 26

Average number in each house: 3½

Houses, not Brothels, in which Prostitutes lodge

31st December 1839: 184
31st December 1840: 199
Decrease: 15

Number of those existing in 1839 which were still open on 31st December 1840: 156
Number opened in 1840: 43
Number closed in 1840: 28

Proprietors having given up keeping these houses: 19
Proprietors having been reformed: 8
Proprietors having died: 1

Number of prostitutes 31st December 1839: 347
Number of prostitutes 31st December 1840: 406
Increase: 59

Average number in each house: 2

Source

Adapted from Table No 181 “Statement of the number of brothels, prostitutes, prostitutes’ lodging houses, mendicant’s [sic] lodging houses, and houses for the reception of stolen property, within the jurisdiction of the Liverpool Police, during the year 1840” in Tables of the Revenue, Population, Commerce, &c of the United Kingdom and its Dependencies Part X 1840 compiled from official returns HMSO London 1842

 

 

 

 

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Header

Posted on Sunday 7 January 2018 | Leave a comment

Capt Basil Hall‘s novel principle of fitting the wheel at the head in place of the stern, is adopted by the London and Westminster Steam boat company in their vessels.

Limerick Chronicle 11 April 1838

It would be nice to have an illustration ….

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Eau de Cologne

Posted on Sunday 7 January 2018 | Leave a comment

Let’s send Boxer Moran to Germany.

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Posted on Sunday 31 December 2017 | Leave a comment

Thanks to Ewan Duffy for the link to this story about an early steamer on Lough Erne. The Clones Sheugh comes into it too.

Here is a piece about the later steam yacht Firefly at Crom.

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Posted in Canals, Economic activities, Extant waterways, Foreign parts, Forgotten navigations, Historical matters, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, People, Steamers, Ulster Canal, waterways, Waterways management, Weather

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B Specials on the Shannon-Erne Waterway?

Posted on Sunday 31 December 2017 | 5 comments

I see from the blatts that Her unfortunate Majesty’s Government is considering having vigilantes to man Her borders, just as they have in that nice Mr Trump’s domain.

Concerns have been raised in recent years about the coverage of dozens of minor harbours and landing places in the UK.

Her Majesty also has a land border, part of which runs along the Shannon–Erne Waterway, so no doubt volunteers will be needed there too. The Ulster Special Constabulary provides a possible model, notably the B Specials:

  • B Specials – part-time, usually on duty for one evening per week and serving under their own command structure, and unpaid, although they had a generous system of allowances (which were reduced following the reorganisation of the USC a few years later), served wherever the RIC served and manned Mobile Groups of platoon size; (originally 19,000 members).

 

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Posted in Canals, Extant waterways, Foreign parts, Ireland, Modern matters, Politics, Shannon, waterways, Waterways management

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