Howth
Fishing harbour and headland village where a smuggled arms shipment sparked deadly unrest in nineteen fourteen.
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This guide to Howth in Dublin covers the July 1914 gun-running landing at this harbour, when the writer-turned-nationalist Erskine Childers sailed the yacht Asgard in from Wales carrying nine hundred rifles for the Irish Volunteers. You'll hear how the weapons were passed hand to hand ashore with the telephone lines already cut, and about the tense march toward Dublin that followed. Best heard looking out over the quiet harbour where it all began.
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