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LIGHTHOUSES OF IRELAND

Since the time when Greek sentinels lit fires on mountaintops for the use of mariners at sea, lighthouses have aided the navigation of sailors on European waters. Those crude fires have been replaced by state-of-the-art towers equipped with satellite technology, and lighthouses remain indispensable navigational aids. For Ireland, the lights are important not only to mariners, but to the livelihood of the entire island.

Eighty lighthouses under the authority of the Commissioners of Irish Lights dot the 2000 miles of Irish coastline. Each is addressed here, and thirty of the most interesting lights are featured with detailed histories and full-color paintings by noted maritime artist William Trotter. From the sinking of the Lusitania to the burial of a shipwrecked elephant, Kevin McCarthy outlines the significance of Irish lights to the maritime history of Ireland and the world while painting a vivid picture of the life led by the keepers and inhabitants of the rocks, islands, and shores of the Emerald Isle.

From the foreword by Dr. John de Courcy Ireland of The Maritime Institute of Ireland:
“The vigour, imagination, and determination with which Dr. McCarthy went about writing this book, entailing, incidentally, visits to some of the least easily accessible spots on the rock-strewn, sandbank-haunted, wind-battered, and sea-torn two-thousand-mile coast of this island on the Western fringe of the great Eurasian Continent, recalled irresistibly the sea-going McCarthys originating from County Cork. Their spirit is very discernible in the author who found the sites and discovered the history of the lighthouses as lovingly described here.”

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