Browse Items (2 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: malfeasance Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "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 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 Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
