Steven Mulkerrins

February Launch
for Galway Hooker

By Frank Shouldice, Contributor
February / March 2003

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A transatlantic voyage with a difference is what Steven Mulkerrins has in mind. Now living in Chicago, the 40-year-old carpenter from Connemara is applying finishing touches to a traditional Irish boat – a 47-foot Galway hooker – so that he can fulfill his dream of sailing from America to Ireland in the craft. "It will certainly be the first hooker to sail west to east with … [Read more...] about February Launch
for Galway Hooker

October 18, 1881

The Land League, under the guidance of Charles Stewart Parnell, who was imprisoned at Kilmainham Gaol, issued the “No Rent Manifesto” on this day in 1881. The manifesto called for a national tenant farmer rent strike in order to combat the Second Land Act of 1881. The Land League was immediately suppressed by the British upon the issue of this manifesto. This would eventually lead to the Kilmainham treaty.

February Launch
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