Yachts in Kinsale

Kinsale is a town in County Cork, Ireland. Kinsale is a popular holiday
resort for Irish and foreign tourists and is known for its many gourmet
restaurants and leisure activities including yachting. Yachters in Kinsale
join the area's rich yachting history - Cork harbour is host to the oldest
yachting club in the world - the Royal Cork Yacht Club.

Ghosts of the Titanic

Cobh - the remnants of the White Star Line jetty where the last passengers
to board the Titanic stood awaiting on Thursday April 11th 1912. All that
remains of it are these rotting timbers held together by rusting brackets.
There is no sign or plaque commemorating its former use or the 1,517
passengers who were lost when the Titanic sunk on 14th April 1912.

Portmagee Seafront

Portmagee is a village in County Kerry, Ireland. The village is located on
the west coast of Ireland, on Kerry's Inveragh Peninsula south of Valentia
Island. Its name in Irish, 'An Caladh', means 'the ferry', referring to its
purpose as a crossing point to Valentia Island. The English name
'Portmagee', or 'Magee's Port', as it was formerly known, comes from
Captain Theobold Magee, a notorious 18th Century smuggler.

Meeting at Night - Robert Browning

I

THE grey sea and the long black land;

And the yellow half-moon large and low;

And the startled little waves that leap

In fiery ringlets from their sleep,

As I gain the cove with pushing prow,

And quench its speed in the slushy sand.

II

Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;

Three fields to cross till a farm appears;

A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch

And blue spurt of a lighted match,

And a voice less loud, thro' its joys and fears,

Than the two hearts beating each to each!