One of the most beautiful prospects imagination can form an idea of… a spacious amphitheatre mostly bounded by high shore and the country all round is mostly spangled with white villas’. Thus was Dublin Bay described by writers Pool and Cash in 1780. Indeed the harbour and bay of Dublin...
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.’ Tall ships rounded the bay, sails billowing, majestically commanded the horizon and then entered upon the Liffey. The East-Link, the...