HBA receives IWS Community and Social Responsibility Award Today, November 23rd, Irene O’Neill, Child Welfare Officer of the Heritage Boat Association (HBA), and Holly Farrell and Robbie Saunders, members of the HBA, received a Community and Social Responsibility…
Read moreHeritage Boat Association “Celebrating Ireland’s Floating Heritage” PRESS RELEASE ………. IMMEDIATE ………. Nov 23rd 2010 IRISH WATER SAFETY AWARD The Heritage Boat Association (HBA) is delighted to learn of the Community…
Read moreWhen reading the study commissioned by Waterways Ireland, (HBA Dublin City Canal Study Jul 2010 and Dublin IWAI Canal Study Review) it’s difficult to picture how the heart of Dublin would look with a thriving community of boats visiting Grand Canal Docks (GCD)…
Read moreThe Berlin-Brandenberg e.V. Shipping Company is a club of boating enthusiasts, whose objective is the maintenance of an old port and the restoration, preservation and operation of historic barges, so people can understand the working and living conditions of boatmen…
Read moreThe Slow Architecture exhibition on board the barge 107B arrived in Dublin see HBA Slow Architecture and Slowarchitecture Bertie Conroy recalls the trials and tribulations of CC Boating on the Grand Canal and Shannon in this article in the Clare Champion…
Read more‘Gobsmacked’ was how group described the old waterways in Limerick. THOUSANDS of tourists would flock to the area annually if derelict parts of an old navigation system were restored to their former glory, according to an English waterways protection…
Read morePRESS RELEASE….IMMEDIATE…. HERITAGE BOATS TO VISIT NAAS Over the October Bank Holiday weekend, October 23th to 25th, boats of the Heritage Boat Association together with boats of the Kildare Branch of the IWAI will visit Naas. Amongst the…
Read morePress Release from British Waterways today, Thursday October 14th 2010 British Waterways welcomes the UK Government’s announcement today of its intention to transfer British Waterways’ inland waterways in England and Wales into a new charitable body. The move,…
Read moreFor those needing to plan well ahead, the Jamestown Heritage Festival in 2012 will start on Friday July 27th and end on Monday Aug 6th. Planning has started for this event and more details will be available in December. Here is a description from the very…
Read moreThe Slow Architecture Exhibition on 107B continues its journey east, will be in Roberstown on Oct 7th and Naas on Oct 14th. See Irish Times Slow Boat from Offaly, HBA Slow Architecture and SlowArchitecture. There was a most enjoyable celebration in Richmond…
Read moreEnglish waterways enthusiasts to visit Limerick Navigation On the first weekend of October, a group of waterways enthusiasts will be visiting Limerick and Clare to walk the route of the old Limerick Navigation. The visit is being coordinated by the O’Briensbridge…
Read moreArthurs Day 2010, Dolan’s Limerick Thursday September 23rd Canal Boat 68M completes a historic voyage 50 years on… Dolans celebrates Arthurs Day in style this year! We are proud to announce the arrival of the Grand Canal Barge 68M to Limerick…
Read moreRoyal Canal Celebrations Waterways Ireland in conjunction with a working committee will mark the completion of the main line of the Royal Canal with an event that will take place in Richmond Harbour, Clondra, Co. Longford on the 1st October as part of a weekend…
Read moreDeirdre Dalton of The Waterford News and Star wrote on Sep 7th – The Tall Ships coffers were rattling with pieces of gold to the tune of €450,000 last week as five sponsors who have come on board for the four-day festival were announced. With just 10 months…
Read moreThe Slow Architecture, a travelling exhibition on board 107B starts today, Sep 9th, at Belmont on the Grand Canal and continues along the canal visiting various towns along the way; it then transfers to the Waterways Ireland Visitor Centre in Dublin from Oct 21st….
Read morePhotographs from the BCRG Launch are here and a write-up on the event in the Tullamore Tribune. Some interesting correspondence from 1922, between GCC’s Head Office and the Canal Workers has been unearthed in Dublin – see piece under Latest News. Nieuwe Zorgen…
Read moreHeritage Week 2010 You are invited to the Launch of the Ballycommon Canal Renewal Group Saturday 28 th August Events (at Campbells Bridge, 250m from Ballycommon House, towards Tullamore) will include: 2.30p.m. onwards – Canal Boat 107B will be open for…
Read moreOn Saturday Aug 21st the Rehab Waterways Adventure was officially launched in Sallins. Eric Kemp and his crew on Nieuwe Zorgen will travel from Kildare to Carrick-on-Shannon in Leitrim, stopping at various places along the way. The trip, supported by Bord na…
Read moreDublin City Canals [Recreational Tourism and Commercial Product Identification Study and Development of an Investment and Maintenance Framework] The following are just some extracts from the final version of the Dublin City Canals Study, a 75 page document…
Read moreSome Irish barges are featured on The Barge Association’s site here DBA Barge Assoc July Photos. The Goggin family took a trip in a small boat to Rockville near Grange in July see IWH Rockville Navigation Trip. And on the annual HBA CIC a number of small boats…
Read moreFor everyone who enjoyed the Elderflower Champagne at Shannon Harbour, the recipe is here Hawthorn Elderflower Champagne. And for a totally different culinary experience, read about IWH Intro to Eels and the IWH Shannon Eel Fishery. Neil Arlidge who travelled…
Read moreDaingean: Lunchtime, 14:00 on Sunday June 6 Ballycommon: Evening, 21:00 on Sunday June 6 Tullamore: Harbour Area, 16:00 Monday June 7 51M leaves Dublin May 2010 All are welcome to come along to see the boat and learn about her history. CIE…
Read moreRaising 41M from the Deep is a description and a set of photographs of this event in 1945. Guinness by barge on Liffey, Grand and Shannon is remembered in the Clare Champion. Pictures of the HBA Fleet and 51M on their journey westward is here 51M the Leaving…
Read moreA flotilla of surviving heritage boats are escorting 51M along the Grand Canal westwards. On Saturday May 29th she was in Robertstown, County Kildare. The schedule for the holiday weekend is: Daingean, County Offaly on Sunday June 6th at lunchtime, Ballycommon…
Read moreHeritage Boat Association ‘Celebrating Ireland’s Floating Heritage’ Fifty years after Canal Boat 51M carried the last commercial cargo from Dublin outbound to Limerick along the Grand Canal and River Shannon, the Heritage Boat Association…
Read moreOpening of Spencer Dock, Royal Canal, Dublin On Friday the 14th May at (4pm), a small fleet of Heritage Boats, led by “The Rambler”, will enter Spencer Dock, the entry point to the Royal Canal from the River Liffey. This symbolic event announces the…
Read moreMany of us moored outside and enjoyed the shows at the Grand Canal Theatre during our stay in Dublin see Grand Canal Theatre Dublin. When going through the 12th Lock on Friday Apr 16th, Damien Maddock took many fine photos of the proceedings. See a selection here Damien…
Read morePRESS RELEASE….IMMEDIATE…. “ALL ALONG THE BANKS OF THE (GRAND) CANAL” The weekend walker along the Grand Canal in Dublin, might have been surprised to see the waterway alive with boats, making their way in towards Dublin city. The boats flying…
Read moreThree German officers didn’t cross the Rine, which is a river in County Clare, flowing into the estuary of the River Fergus which, in turn, joins the estuary of the River Shannon. The Rine is also known as the Quin and the Ardsollus and its downstream end…
Read moreMarch 30th: Some of the heritage boats have started their journey to Edenderry for the ‘Easter in Eden Festival’ next weekend. They will approach the town via the Edenderry Branch and moor in the Harbour, completed in 1802. There is currently an exhibition…
Read moreThe Tour Barge Cadhla, electrically powered, was launched in Dublin recently, see Independent Cadhla Launch and photos on ISBFs Cadhla on Youtube and ISBFs Cadhla on Youtube ii This year it will operate between Ranelagh and the Grand Canal Theatre, along the…
Read morePRESS RELEASE….IMMEDIATE…. BOAT FLEETS TO VISIT EDENDERRY FOR ‘EASTER IN EDEN!’ Over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, 3rd to 5th April, the Heritage Boat Association fleet together with the boats of the Kildare Branch of the IWAI will visit Edenderry. Amongst…
Read moreThe HBA and Kildare Branch of the IWAI will be welcoming boats to the Edenderry Harbour Festival 2010 over the holiday weekend. See Easter in Eden Press Release The Barrow, Dublin, Kildare & Slaney Branches of the IWAI are hosting a Small Boat Rally to Pollardstown…
Read moreLetter from Alison Alderton and Roger Harrington in Blue Flag www.barges.org
Read moreWe are creating a photographic account of our waterways during Winter 2009 – 2010 Do send us your contributions. Over the next few months we will be introducing some changes to the website and moving pages to more logical categories. For example, Charts…
Read moreUpdates to the HBA Website and links to other sites of interest Here are the transmission times for Three Men go to Ireland; the HBA photos of the event are at Grand Crew Dublin and Three Men The River Suir in Winter is presented on Nationwide River Suir; remember…
Read moreCanalboat 107B is featured in the current issue of Heritage Outlook Magazine, describing her life from the 1930’s to 2009. A pdf version is available for downloading Heritage Outlook Magazine 2009-2010 (6.9MB)
Read moreThe Sailing Ketch Ilen (eye-len), 56 by 14 feet built of oak and commissioned by the architect Conor O’Brien in the 1920’s is featured in the winter edition of Heritage Outlook. Conor O’Brien on his boat Saoirse set out in 1923 with a crew of two, to circumnavigate…
Read moreOver the past six months a number of written questions have been submitted in the Dail about our waterways. These may be of interest to those currently on the Grand Canal heading east. On October 13th the Minister was asked about access to Grand Canal Docks…
Read moreCircular Line of Grand Canal, Dublin – 6km with 7 Locks We understand work will commence in November on recreating (dredging) the navigation on the 6 kilometres of the Circular Line from the Grand Canal Docks Inner Basin in Ringsend to the Suir Road…
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