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| Life Afloat .... Where Time Stands Still A holiday on a Canalways Ireland Boat will take you back in time. |
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| Life Afloat .... Where Time Stands Still A holiday on a Canalways Ireland Boat will take you back in time. |
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| Book review April 2000 Kevin Dwyer, is a Cork based Photographer, and author of " Ireland, the Inner Island. A journey through Ireland's Inland Waterways" This book is the story of a journey by boat from St. Mullins in Co Wexford, through the heart of Ireland and up to Beleek in Co. Fermanagh, a journey of 480 Km's or 300 miles. |
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The book includes 180 photographs. The main journey covers the Barrow River and Canal Navigation, The Grand Canal, the Royal Canal, The Shannon Navigation and the Erne Navigation. The journey was done in stages and five boats were hired on five seperate occasions over three years.He also took aerial shots during 12 seperate flights to show the course of the different Waterways. |
| Talking about the writing of the book Kevin Dwyer says " I don't really have any regrets in life, but if I was to have one it would be I did'nt discover the Inland Waterways of Ireland many years ago. It was in 1996 when my youngest daugther approached the end of her school career, that the whole family went on their first waterway holiday... to do something different." | |
| The holiday was a great success and out of it came the idea
for the book. " I suppose we all know the Shannon is there and we've heard you can
hire boats on it. Many of us pass over the Grand Canal in Dublin but don't pass a thought
about where it leads. We have heard that money was invested in its restoration and in the Shannon - Erne Link, but we dont take it any further. It is a part of Ireland unexplored and unknown to most of us. But it is becomming an addiction for some of us at home and abroad." |
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