Jane Casey

So this would be normal.

This was business as usual.

Ships would leave out to Ring's End, go off for years at a time.

And remember back then there was no radios.

Marconi, we're in Marconi House right now.

Marconi wasn't to invent the radio yet.

So, you know, you just kind of hope for the best and if they didn't come back after a certain amount of time when they should have, you eventually presume... And do we know, were they bringing anything with them to trade or was it cash or gold or whatever it might be?

have been a massive trading, you know, this would have been a trading hub.

So like linens, there was linens, especially in Dublin, whiskeys, things like that.

So, you know, we were quite an industrious country then.

So it went for three years and after three years it never returned.

So it was presumed lost.

So they said, look, what are we going to do here?

This is an absolute legal mess.

So they were like, they settled everything.

They settled insurance.

The crew were mourned.

Everything moved on.

And two years after that.

it reappeared up the Liffey.