North Bull Island

This guide to North Bull Island in Dublin Bay opens in 1800 with Captain William Bligh, fresh from surviving the mutiny on the Bounty, wading the mudflats to chart why Dublin's harbor kept silting up. You'll hear how his proposed fix was overruled by the city's engineers, who built a different wall instead, and how a stubborn myth later credited Bligh with a design he never made. The guide follows the tides that spent decades reshaping the bay after that wall went up, and the wading birds that now depend on what they built.