Waterways Ireland is having a photographic competition for which it is
seeking contributions from the public on what they think best fulfils the theme “Waterways Heritage”.
Details here. You can win an iPad Air, which I think is a sort of pocket calculator for chaps with ponytails.
I was in two minds about whether to publicise this competition. You see, many of the bits of “heritage” I’m interested in are invisible, having vanished since the late nineteenth century. So maybe they’re not heritage at all?
But I decided that it would probably be difficult for Waterways Ireland to judge a competition in which all the photographs were of invisible objects, so I should encourage the photographing of the visible.
I was asked recently by another respectable public sector body to say, for publication, why industrial heritage was important to me. Unfortunately my response was deemed to be unusable, because it was too controversial. I’ll write more about that soon.
Irish waterways history 