Salt and Emerald - Alastair Scott
Contents
Author’s NoteAcknowledgements
Map
Dreams........................................................................1
Tides............................................................................ 8
Traffic......................................................................... 12
Ships and Rigs.........................................................15
Rathlin....................................................................... 18
Wallace Clark...................................................... .....24
Troubles.....................................................................28
Potted History No. 1.................................................32
Antrim A & E....................................................... .......35
Belfast................................................................. .......37
Castle Ward.............................................................. 45
Dublin..........................................................................48
Arklow........................................................................ .54
‘Bunclody Welcomes Burkina Faso’................... .59
The Greatest Sailing Feat in Ireland................... ..61
The Second Greatest Sailing Feat in Ireland...... 65
Whales....................................................................... 66
Potted History No. 2..................................................71
Yola............................................................................. 76
Emigration Ships................................................. ....78
Hazards.............................................................. ........82
Mystery Ship....................................................... ........86
International Code of Signals.............................. ...91
Of Kilts......................................................................... 93
Laundrettes......................................................... .......95
Potted History No. 3............................................ ......96
Prison.................................................................. ........99
Bad Days at Charles Fort................................... ...102
Encounters............................................................... 105
Dervla Murphy.......................................................... 110
Lusitania................................................................... 117
The Cape.................................................................. 120
Fastnet................................................................ ......123
Hungry Hill................................................................ 129
Potted History No. 4................................................ 133
Skellig Michael......................................................... 137
Valentia..................................................................... 143
John Scannell..................................................... .....147
Tom Crean............................................................... 151
Fungie....................................................................... 156
Blaskets.............................................................. ......158
Aran Islands........................................................ .....162
Sailor’s Beliefs and Customs.............................. 170
Galway Races..................................................... ....172
Viewpoints............................................................... .177
Roundstone Buses.................................................177
Sea Serpents.......................................................... .178
Inishbofin............................................................ ......182
Grace O’Malley....................................................... .188
Reek Sunday........................................................... 190
Holes Communicating with Sea.......................... 196
Poteen Recipe........................................................ .203
Pan Pan................................................................... .204
Sea Birds............................................................ ......207
Sligo Coroner............................................................210
Knock.................................................................. .......216
Cures for Seasickness (‘Mal de Mer’)..................220
Killybegs.................................................................. ..221
God’s Tear.................................................................223
Light Dues.............................................................. ...227
Bloody Foreland.................................................. .....230
Tory.......................................................................... ...233
News, 20 August.................................................. ....238
Potted History No. 5............................................ .....239
Malin................................................................... ........243
The City.................................................................. ....246
Lough Foyle........................................................ ......254
Low Tide................................................................ ....256
Tying Up............................................................. ........257