Patrick Geoghegan

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Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan · The Irish Who Served In The British Army · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

More than 1,700 wrecks have been recorded off the Dublin coast with approximately 900 historic losses identified within Dublin Bay itself.

It's a story of victims of storms, shifting sandbanks, poor visibility and some of the most difficult coastal waters in Ireland.

And a new exhibition at the Dublin Port substation brings some of these stories back to life, combining archaeology, archival material and the work of the National Monument Service's underwater archaeology specialists.

And the exhibition forms part of the extraordinary Dublin Port Archive,

whose collections include some 75,000 photographs, 30,000 engineering drawings and hundreds of historical registers.

And the exhibition runs at the Dublin Port substation on East Wall Road in Dublin until the 18th of September.

And to talk to me now about the hidden history beneath Dublin Bay, I'm delighted to welcome back to the show, Lar Joy, the Port Heritage Director at Dublin Port.

Well, Lar, you're very welcome back to the show.

And can I begin with...

The shipwrecks exhibition and the fact that when we look out across Dublin Bay, we probably don't know just how much history is lying beneath the water.

So tell us about the National Monument Service, because they have this incredible underwater unit.

And without their work, it wouldn't have been possible to put together the whole exhibition.

And why were there so many wrecks?

Was it a problem to do with the sandbanks or the tides or the shallow waters or was there human error and incompetence?

How come there were so many wrecks and how come it was such a dangerous place for ships?

This is mutiny on the bounty.

I want to talk about the year 1807 because there were extraordinary losses that year.

Two ships, major ships sank, the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales.

So what happened there and why were those disasters so significant and impactful?

But there is a disaster then in 1854 with the loss of the Queen Victoria.

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