Browse Items (2 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: malfeasance Sort by: Title Creator Date Added The 1795 disaster "The end of the eighteenth-century history of Lough Derg is sadly remembered because of a particularly bad boating accident..." Tags: 1795 disaster, accusation, Alice Curtayne, boating, disaster, drinking, drowning, eighteenth century, Friars' Island, malfeasance, pilgrim, pilgrim crossing, poteen, Station Island, twentieth century "There were boats at hand, and presence of mind, even among the onlookers, could have averted the tragedy" "Ninety-three people were then crowded into an old and leaky boat, despite their protests. The fact that the boatmen were drunk made the passengers still more uneasy..." Tags: 1795 disaster, accusation, Alice Curtayne, drinking, drowning, Friars' Island, inaction, incompetence, malfeasance, onlookers, Oral History, panic, pilgrim crossing, Station Island, twentieth century Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2