The text includes many quotations from Praeger’s popular books Beyond Soundings, The Way that I Went and A Populous Solitude. After the first mention, these books are referenced by (BS), (WW) and (PS) respectively.
Preface & Introduction
1Praeger, R.L. (1937). The Way that I Went. Dublin. Hodges Figgis.
2Praeger, R.L. (1930). Beyond Soundings. Dublin & Cork. The Talbot Press.
3Praeger, R.L. (1941). A Populous Solitude. London. Methuen; Dublin. Hodges Figgis.
4Collins, T. (1985). Floriat Hibernia: A bio-bibliography of Robert Lloyd Praeger 1865–1953. Dublin. Royal Dublin Society.
5Lysaght, S. (1998). Robert Lloyd Praeger: The life of a naturalist. Dublin. Four Courts Press.
6Neilson, B. & Costello, M.J. (1999). The relative lengths of intertidal substrata around the coastline of Ireland as determined by digital methods in a Geographic Information System. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Sciences 49, pp. 501–508.
7Fraser Darling, F. (1943). Island Farm. London. Bell and Sons.
8Nairn, R. (2005). Ireland’s Coastline: Exploring its nature and heritage. Cork. Collins Press.
9Praeger, R.L. (1949). Some Irish Naturalists: a biographical note-book. Dundalk. W. Tempest, Dundalgan Press.
East Coast
1Blaney, R. (1999). The Praeger family of Holywood. Ulster Genealogical Review 15: pp. 91–100.
2Farrington, A. (1954). Robert Lloyd Praeger 1865–1953. Irish Naturalists’ Journal 11 (6): pp. 141–171.
3Long, B. (1993). Bright Light, White Water: The story of Irish lighthouses and their people. Dublin. New Island Books.
4Heery, S. (2018). Charles Joseph Patten: professor and Irish ornithologist. Irish Birds 11: pp. 101–105.
5Patten, C.J. (1914). Missel thrushes, Fieldfares and Redwings at the Maidens Light-house, Co. Antrim. Irish Naturalist 23, p. 123.
6Praeger, R.L. (1885). Rambles round the Antrim coast. 1. Black Head and the Gobbins. Northern Whig May 30th, 1885.
7Greenwood, J.D. (2010). Black Guillemots at Bangor, Co Down: a 25-year study. British Wildlife 21, pp. 153–158.
8Greenwood, J.D. (2015). Breeding sites and breeding success in 2014 of Black Guillemots at Bangor Marina, Co. Down. Northern Ireland Seabird Report 2014.
9Long, B. (1993). op. cit.
10McKee, N. (1976). Copeland. In: Bird Observatories in Britain and Ireland (edited by R. Durman). Berkhamstead. T. & A.D. Poyser.
11Brown, R. (1990). Strangford Lough: The wildlife of an Irish Sea Lough. Belfast. The Institute of Irish Studies. Queen’s University Belfast.
12Bell, S. (1951). December Bride. London. Dobson.
13Culloch, R., Horne, N. & Kregting, L. (2017). A review of Northern Ireland seal count data 1992–2017: Investigating population trends and recommendations for future monitoring. Report to the Northern Ireland Environment Agency. Queen’s University of Belfast.
14McErlean, T., McConkey, R. & Forsythe, W. (2002). Strangford Lough: An archaeological survey of the maritime cultural landscape. Belfast. Blackstaff Press/Environment & Heritage Service.
15Wilson, I. (1979) Shipwrecks of the Ulster Coast. Coleraine. Impact Amergin.
16Brown, B. (2011). A magic shell: the seas and shores. In: The Natural History of Ulster (eds. Faulkner, J. and Thompson, R.). Belfast. National Museums Northern Ireland.
17Whatmough, J. (2011). The edge of the land: coast and islands. In: The Natural History of Ulster (eds. Faulkner, J. and Thompson, R.). Belfast. National Museums Northern Ireland.
18Evans, E.E. (1978). Mourne Country: Landscape and life in South Down. Dundalk. Dundalgan Press.
19Cabot, D. & Nisbet, I. (2013). Terns. London. HarperCollins.
20Newton, S. (2021). East coast terns. Wings magazine no. 102. Kilcoole. BirdWatch Ireland.
21Praeger, R.L. (1907). Contributions to the Natural History of Lambay. Irish Naturalist 16: pp. 1–112.
22Hart, H.C. (1883). Notes on the Flora of Lambay Island, County of Dublin. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Series II, vol. 3: pp. 670–693.
23Jebb, M.H.P. (no date). The vascular flora of Lambay. Unpublished report. National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin.
24Merne, O.J. & Madden, B. (1999). Breeding seabirds of Lambay, County Dublin. Irish Birds 6: pp. 345–359.
25Cummins, S., Lauder, C., Lauder, A. & Tierney, T.D. (2019). The Status of Ireland’s Breeding Seabirds: Birds Directive Article 12 Reporting 2013–2018. Irish Wildlife Manuals, No. 114. Dublin. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
26Cummins et al. (2019). ibid.
27Cummins et al. (2019). ibid.
28Cooney, G. (2000). Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland. London. Routledge.
29Hutchison, S. (2013). Beware the coast of Ireland. Dublin. Wordwell.
30West, A.B., Partridge, J.K. & Lovitt, A. (1979). The cockle Cerastoderma edule (L.) on the South Bull, Dublin Bay: Population parameters and fishery potential. Irish Fisheries Investigations Series B, no. 20. Dublin. Department of Fisheries and Forestry.
31Nairn, R., Jeffrey, D. & Goodbody, R. (2017). Dublin Bay: nature and history. Cork. Collins Press.
32Merne, O.J. (2004). Common Sterna hirundo and Arctic Terns S. paradisaea breeding in Dublin Port, County Dublin, 1995–2003. Irish Birds 7, pp. 369–374.
33Bolton, J., Carey, T., Goodbody, R. & Clabby, G. (2012). The Martello Towers of Dublin. Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council and Fingal County Council.
34O’Sullivan, A. & Breen, C. (2007). Maritime Ireland: An archaeology of coastal communities. Stroud. Tempus Publishing.
35Warren, G. & Westley, K. (2020). ‘They made no effort to explore the interior of the country’. Coastal landscapes, hunter-gatherers and the islands of Ireland. In: Coastal Landscapes of the Mesolithic. (ed. A. Schulke). Oxford and New York. Routledge. pp. 73–98.
36McQuade, M. & O’Donnell, L (2009). The excavation of late Mesolithic fish trap remains from the Liffey Estuary, Dublin, Ireland. In: S. McCartan, R. Sheulting, G. Warren & P. Woodman. (eds.), Mesolithic Horizons. Oxbow. pp. 889–894.
37Praeger, R.L. (1896). A submerged pine forest. Irish Naturalist 20, 155–160.
38Newton, S. (2021). op. cit.
39Nairn, R. & Crowley, M. (1998). Wild Wicklow: Nature in the Garden of Ireland. Dublin. Country House.
40Drew, F. (2010). Racing Round Ireland: a miscellany. Dublin. Original Writing.
41Long, B. (1993). op. cit.
42Rees, J. (2004). Arklow: The story of a town. Arklow. Dee-Jay Publications.
43Wilson, J.G. (1980). Heavy metals in the estuarine macrofauna of the east coast of Ireland. Journal of Life Science – Royal Dublin Society 1: pp. 183–189.
44Wilkins, N.P. (2001). Squires, Spalpeens and Spats: Oysters and oystering in Galway Bay. Galway. Privately published.
45Wilkins, N.P. (2004). Alive Alive O: The shellfish and shellfisheries of Ireland. Kinvara. Tír Eolas.
46Bord Iascaigh Mhara (2020). Seed Mussel Survey Report for the South Wicklow Head – 12/08/2020 to 10/09/2020. Dún Laoghaire. Bord Iascaigh Mhara.
47Merne, O.J. (1974). The Birds of Wexford, Ireland. Wexford. South-East Tourism and Bord Failte.
48Long, B. (1993). op. cit.
49Hutchison, S. (2013) op. cit.
50Reynolds, M. (2003). Tragedy at Tuskar Rock. Dublin. Gill & Macmillan.
South Coast
1Lysaght, S. (1998). op. cit.
2Healy, B. (2003). Coastal Lagoons. In: Wetlands of Ireland. R. Otte (ed). Dublin. University College. Dublin Press. pp. 44–78.
3Cummins, S. et al. (2019). op. cit.
4Roche, R. & Merne, O. (1977). Saltees: Islands of birds and legends. Dublin. O’Brien Press.
5Perry, K.W. & Warburton, S.W. (1976). The Birds and Flowers of the Saltee Islands. Belfast. Privately published.
6Cummins, S. et al. (2019). op. cit.
7Morris, C.D. & Duck, C.D. (2019) Aerial thermal-imaging survey of seals in Ireland, 2017 to 2018. Irish Wildlife Manuals, No. 111. Dublin. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
8Long, B. (1993). op. cit.
9Taylor, R.M. (2004). The Lighthouses of Ireland: a personal history. Cork. Collins Press.
10McGrath, D. (2011). A Guide to the Waterford Coast. Waterford. Privately published.
11Cummins, S. et al. (2019). op. cit.
12Cummins, S., Lewis, L.J. & Egan, S. (2016). Life on the Edge – Seabird and Fisheries in Irish Waters. Kilcoole. BirdWatch Ireland.
13Lewis, L., Butler, A. & Guest, B. (2017). Intertidal habitat creation – Kilmacleague Compensatory Wetlands, Tramore, Co. Waterford. Irish Birds 10: p. 622.
14Trewby, M., Gray, N., Cummins, S., Thomas, G. & Newton, S. (2006). The status and ecology of the Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax in the Republic of Ireland, 2002–2005. BirdWatch Ireland Final Report to National Parks and Wildlife Service, Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow.
15Robertson, J. (2021). Arthur’s Crow: the spirit of the wild? British Wildlife 32: pp. 269–275.
16Gittings, T. & O’Donoghue, P. (2012). The effects of intertidal oyster culture on the spatial distribution of waterbirds. Marine Institute Bird Studies. Cork. Atkins.
17Long, B. (1993). op. cit.
18Lincoln, S. (no date). The Wreck of the Nellie Fleming. The Ardmore Journal. Waterford County Museum.
19Long, B. (1993). op. cit.
20Smiddy, P. & O’Halloran, J. (2006). The waterfowl of Ballycotton, County Cork: population change over 35 years, 1970/71 to 2004/05. Irish Birds 8: pp. 65–78.
21O’Mahony, B. & Smiddy, P. (2017). Breeding of the Common Tern Sterna hirundo in Cork Harbour 1983–2017. Irish Birds 10: pp. 535–540.
22Thuillier. J. (2014). Kinsale Harbour: A history. Cork. Collins Press.
23Shanahan, M. (2011). Martin’s Fishy Fishy Cookbook. Cork. Estragon Press.
24Somerville-Large, P. (1972). The Coast of West Cork. London. Victor Gollancz.
25Van Gelderen, G. ed. (1979). The Irish Wildlife Book. Dublin. Irish Wildlife Federation.
26Norton, T. (2002) Reflections on a Summer Sea. London. Arrow Books.
27Myers, A.A., Little, C., Costello, M.J. & Partridge, J.C. (1991). The Ecology of Lough Hyne. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.
28McAllen, R., Trowbridge, C., Bell, J. Nunn, J. & Little, C. (2021). Lough Hyne: a marine reserve in crisis. In: The Coastal Atlas of Ireland (ed. Devoy, R. et al.) Cork. Cork University Press.
29McCarthy, B. (2012). Pirates of Baltimore: from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century. Baltimore Castle Publications.
30Anon. (2003). For the Safety of All: Images and Inspections of Irish Lighthouses. Dublin. National Library of Ireland.
31Taylor, R.M. (2004). op. cit.
32Ward, N. & O’Brien, S. (2007). Left for Dead: The untold story of the tragic 1979 Fastnet Race. London. A. & C.B. Publishers.
33Sharrock, J.T.R. (ed.) (1973). The Natural History of Cape Clear Island. Berkhamstead. T. & A.D. Poyser.
34Wing, S. (2020). The Natural History of Cape Clear 1959–2019. Skibbereen. Privately published.
35Somerville-Large, P. (1972). op. cit.
West Coast
1Farrington (1954). op. cit.
2Dillon, P. (1999). Irish Coastal Walks. Milnthorpe, Cumbria. Cicerone Press.
3Clarke, A. (2014). Walking the Sheep’s Head Way. Dublin. WildWays Press.
4Sheehan, S. (2007). Jack’s World: Farming on the Sheep’s Head Peninsula, 1920–2003. Cork. Atrium Press.
5Mee, A. et al. (2016). Reintroduction of White-tailed eagles Haliaeetus albicilla to Ireland. Irish Birds 10: 301–314.
6Praeger, R.L. (1949). op. cit.
7Cummins, S. (2019). op. cit.
8O’Crohan, T. (1934) The Islandman. Dublin. Talbot Press.
9Lavelle, D. (1976) Skellig: Island Outpost of Europe. Dublin. O’Brien Press.
10Higgs, K.T. (2021). Tetrapod Trackway, Valentia Island, County Kerry. In: The Coastal Atlas of Ireland. (Devoy et al. eds.) Cork. Cork University Press.
11Mitchell, F. (1990). The Way that I Followed: A naturalist’s journey around Ireland. Dublin. Country House.
12Mitchell, F. (1989). Man & Environment in Valentia Island. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.
13Smith, M. (2000). An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean – Antarctic Survivor. Cork. Collins Press.
14Mac Conghail, M. (1987). The Blaskets: a Kerry island library. Dublin. Country House.
15Mason, T.H. (1936). The Islands of Ireland. Cork. Mercier Press.
16Praeger, R.L. (1912). Notes on the flora of the Blaskets. Irish Naturalist 21: pp. 157–163.
17Turle, W.H. (1891). A visit to the Blasket Islands and the Skellig Rocks. Ibis Series 6, 3: pp. 1–12.
18Brazier, H. & Merne, O.J. (1988). Breeding seabirds on the Blasket Islands, Co. Kerry. Irish Birds 4: pp. 43–64.
19Trewby et al. (2006). op. cit.
20Devoy, R., Cummins, V., Brunt, B., Bartlett, D. & Kandrot, S. (eds.) (2021). The Coastal Atlas of Ireland. Cork. Cork University Press.
21O’Crohan (1934) op. cit.
22Severin, T. (1978). The Brendan Voyage. London. Hutchinson.
23Beebee, T.J.C. (2002). The Natterjack toad (Bufo calamita) in Ireland: current status and conservation requirements. Irish Wildlife Manuals No. 10. Dublin. Dúchas the Heritage Service.
24King, J.L., Marnell, F., Kingston, N., Rosell, R., Boylan, P., Caffrey, J.M., FitzPatrick, Ú., Gargan, P.G., Kelly, F.L., O’Grady, M.F., Poole, R., Roche, W.K. & Cassidy, D. (2011). Ireland Red List No. 5: Amphibians, Reptiles & Freshwater Fish. Dublin. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
25Hill, J. (2009). In Search of Islands: A life of Conor O’Brien. Cork. Collins Press.
26O’Sullivan, A. (2001). Foragers, Farmers and Fishers in a Coastal Landscape. Discovery Programme Monograph No.5. Dublin. The Royal Irish Academy.
27Praeger, R.L. (1896). Kilkee. The Irish Times, 12 May 1896.
28Foster, S., Boland, H., Colhoun, K., Etheridge, B. & Summers, R. (2010). Flock composition of purple sandpipers Calidris maritima in the west of Ireland. Irish Birds 9: 31–34.
29Whilde, T. (no date). Pocket Guide to the Cliffs of Moher. Belfast. Appletree Press.
30D’Arcy, G. (2017). The Breathing Burren. Cork. The Collins Press.
31Cabot, D. & Goodwillie, R. (2018). The Burren. London. William Collins.
32Heaney, S. (1996). ‘Postscript’, from The Spirit Level. London. Faber and Faber.
33O’Rourke, C. (2006). Nature Guide to the Aran Islands. Dublin. Lilliput Press.
34Roden, C. (1994). The Aran Flora. In: The Book of Aran (eds. J. Waddell, J.W. O’Connell & A. Korff). Kinvara. Tír Eolas.
35Curtis, T.G.F., McGough, H.N. & Wymer, E.D. (1988). The discovery and ecology of rare and threatened arable weeds, previously considered extinct in Ireland, on the Aran Islands, County Galway. Irish Naturalists’ Journal 22: pp. 505–512.
36Robinson, T. (1986). Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage. Dublin. Lilliput Press in association with Wolfhound Press.
37Scott, R.J. (2004). The Galway Hookers: Sailing work boats of Galway Bay (4th edition). Limerick. A.K. Ilen.
38Nairn, R.G.W. (2005). The use of a high tide roost by waders during engineering work in Galway Bay, Ireland. Irish Birds 7: pp. 489–496.
39Praeger, R.L. (1896). By the Western Ocean: a holiday in Connemara. The Irish Times, 12 May 1896.
40Robinson, T. (1996). Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara and other writings. Dublin. The Lilliput Press.
41Mac an Iomaire, S. (2000). The Shores of Connemara. Translated and annotated by Padraic de Bhaldraithe. Kinvara. Tír Eolas.
42Bassett, J.A. & Curtis, T.G.F. (1985). The nature and occurrence of sand-dune machair in Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 85B, pp. 1–20.
43Suddaby, D., Nelson, T. & Veldman, J. (2010). Resurvey of breeding wader populations of machair and associated wet grasslands in north-west Ireland. Irish Wildlife Manuals, No. 44. Dublin. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.
44Suddaby, D., O’Brien, I., Breen, D. & Kelly, S. (2020). A survey of breeding waders on machair and other coastal grasslands in Counties Mayo and Galway. Irish Wildlife Manuals, No. 119. Dublin. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
45Praeger, R.L. (1915). Clare Island Survey: General introduction and narrative. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 31 (1911–1915), section 1, part 1.
46Feehan, J. (2019). Clare Island. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.
47Ferriter, D. (2018). On the Edge: Ireland’s offshore islands: a modern history. London. Profile Books.
48Hutchison, S. (2013). op. cit.
49McNally, K. (1976). The Sun-fish Hunt. Blackstaff Press. Belfast.
50Clarke, Jane (2021). At Purteen Harbour. In: Divining Dante (Edited by Paul Munden and Nessa O’Mahony). Recent Works Press. Woden ACT. Australia.
51Cabot, D, Cabot, R. & Viney, M. (2020). The breeding seabirds and other birds on the Bills Rocks, County Mayo. Irish Birds 42: pp. 55–62.
52McGreal, E. (2013). Probable breeding by Leach’s Storm Petrel Oceanodroma leucorboa at Bills Rocks, County Mayo with results of a census of its breeding birds. Irish Birds 9: pp. 636–638.
53Scally, L., Pfeiffer, N. & Hewitt, E. (2020). The monitoring and assessment of six EU Habitats Directive Annex I Marine Habitats. Irish Wildlife Manuals, No. 118. Dublin. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
54Classen, R. (2020). Marine Protected Areas – Restoring Ireland’s Ocean Wildlife II. Report on Ireland’s Failure to Protect Marine Natura 2000 Sites. Dublin. Irish Wildlife Trust.
55Ferriter, D. (2018). op. cit.
56Nairn, R.G.W. & Sheppard, J.R. (1985). Breeding waders of sand dune machair in north-west Ireland. Irish Birds 3: pp. 53–70.
57Dornan, B. (2000). Mayo’s Lost Islands: The Inishkeas. Dublin. Four Courts Press.
58Fairley, J. (1981). Irish Whales and Whaling. Belfast. Blackstaff Press.
59Ottway, C. (1841). Sketches in Erris and Tyrawly. Dublin. W. Curry.
60Ussher, R.J. & Warren, R. (1900). The Birds of Ireland. London. Gurney and Jackson.
61Gange, D. (2019). The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A historian’s journey from Shetland to the Channel. London. William Collins.
62Hutchinson, C.D. (1989). Birds in Ireland. Calton. T. & A.D. Poyser.
63Summers, C.F., Warner, P.J., Nairn, R.G.W., Curry, M.G. & Flynn, J. (1980). An assessment of the status of the common seal Phoca vitulina vitulina in Ireland. Biological Conservation 17: pp. 115–123.
64Doyle, S., Walsh, A., McMahon, B.J. & Tierney, T.D. (2018). Barnacle Geese Branta leucopsis in Ireland: results of a census in 2018. Irish Birds 11: pp. 23–28.
65Cowell, J. (1989). Sligo: land of Yeats’ desire. Dublin. O’Brien Press.
66O’Sullivan, A. & Breen, C. (2007). op. cit.
67Heraughty, P. (1982). Inishmurray: ancient monastic island. Dublin. O’Brien Press.
68Cabot, D.B. (1962). An ornithological expedition to Inishmurray, Co. Sligo. Irish Naturalists’ Journal 14: pp. 59–61.
69Cotton, D. (1982). Natural History and Conservation. In: Inishmurray: ancient monastic island (Heraughty). Dublin. O’Brien Press.
70Brown, B. (2011). op. cit.
71Nairn, R. (2007). A nature guide to Ardara-Portnoo area of County Donegal. Wicklow. Nature Press.
72Nairn, R.G.W. & Sheppard, J.R. (1985). op. cit.
73Ferriter, D. (2018). op. cit.
74Gibbon, M. (1935). The Seals. Dublin. Allen Figgis & Co.
75Nelson, E.C. (2000). Sea Beans and Nickar Nuts: A handbook of exotic seeds and fruits stranded on beaches in north-western Europe. London. Botanical Society of the British Isles
76Suddaby et al. (2020). op. cit.
North Coast
1Praeger, R.L. (1934). The Botanist in Ireland. Dublin. Hodges Figgis & Co.
2Anon. (1934). Press opinions: The Botanist in Ireland. Pamphlet published by Hodges Figgis & Co. Dublin.
3McErlean, T. (2011). The maritime heritage of Lough Swilly. In: Lough Swilly: a living landscape (ed. A. Cooper). Dublin. Four Courts Press.
4Classen, R. (2020). op. cit.
5Kochmann, J. (2012). Into the Wild: Documenting and Predicting the Spread of Pacific Oysters (Crassostrea gigas) in Ireland. PhD thesis. University College Dublin.
6Whatmough, J. (2011). op. cit.
7Ferriter, D. (2018). op. cit.
8McNally, K. (1978). The Islands of Ireland. London. Batsford.
9Long, B. (1993). op. cit.
10MacPolin, D. (1999). The Drontheim: Forgotten sailing boat of the North Irish Coast. Moville, Co. Donegal. Privately published.
11Carter, R.W.G. & Wilson, P. (1991). Chronology and Geomorphology of the Irish Dunes. In: A Guide to the Sand Dunes of Ireland (ed. M.B. Quigley). Galway. European Union for Dune Conservation and Coastal Management. pp: 18–41.
12O’Sullivan, A. & Breen, C. (2007). op. cit.
13Watson, P. (2012). The Giant’s Causeway and the North Antrim Coast. Dublin. O’Brien Press.
14Watson, P. (2012). op. cit.
15Whatmough, J. (2011). op. cit.
16Nairn, G. & Whelan, M. (1993). Around Ireland with Drama. Irish Cruising Club Annual 1993. Dublin. Irish Cruising Club Publications.
17Jones, K.B. (ed.) (2020). Northern Ireland Seabird Report 2019. Thetford. British Trust for Ornithology & Northern Ireland Environment Agency.
18Brown, B. (2011). op. cit.
Crossing the Bar
1Robinson, T. (1996). op. cit.
2Farrington, A. (1954). Robert Lloyd Praeger 1865–1953. Irish Geography 3 (1): pp. 1–4.
3Lysaght, S. (1998). op. cit.
4Praeger, R.L. (1953). Irish Landscape. Dublin. Sign of the Three Candles.
5Correspondence in the Praeger Collection held in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
6Farrington, A. (1954a). op. cit.
Turning the Tide
1W.J.C. (1881). A Trawling Excursion in Dublin. The Irish Monthly, Vol. 9 (97), pp. 371–374. Published by Irish Jesuit Province.
2Kelly, F. (2020). Common Fisheries Policy 2020: A discarded opportunity. Kilcoole. BirdWatch Ireland.
3Clarke, M., Farrell, E.D., Roche, W., Murray, T.E., Foster, S. & Marnell, F. (2016). Ireland Red List No. 11: Cartilaginous fish [sharks, skates, rays and chimaeras]. Dublin. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.
4Pacoureau, N. et. al. (2021). Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays. Nature 589: pp. 567–571.
5Alheit, J. & Hagen, E. (1997). Long-term climate forcing of European Herring and Sardine populations. Fisheries Oceanography 6, pp. 130–139.
6Bolster, W.J. (2012). The Mortal Sea: fishing the Atlantic in the age of sail. Harvard University Press.
7Classen, R. (2020). op. cit.
8Viney, M. (2006). Sands of time are running out for shellfish. The Irish Times. 11 March 2006.
9Boland, H. & Crowe, O. (2012). Irish Wetland Bird Survey: waterbirds status and distribution 2001/02 – 2008/09. Kilcoole. BirdWatch Ireland.
10Gittings, T., Breffni M., O’Donoghue, P., Clarke, S. & Tully, O. (2016). Winter storms: Oystercatcher population dynamics and feeding ecology in Dundalk Bay, Co. Louth 2011/12–2014/15. International Wader Study Group Annual Conference 2016.
11Burke, B., Lewis. L.J., Fitzgerald, N., Frost, T., Austin, G. & Tierney, T.D. (2018). Estimates of waterbird numbers wintering in Ireland 2011/12 – 2015/16. Irish Birds 41: pp. 1–12.
12Wilkins, N.P. (2004). op. cit.
13Dennis, J.H., Jackson, E. & Burke, B. (2020). Annual Aquaculture Report 2020. Dún Laoghaire. Bord Iascaigh Mhara.
14Gittings, T. & O’Donoghue, P. (2012). op. cit.
15Zwerschke, N., Kochmann, J., Ashton, E.C., Crowe, T.P., Roberts, D. & O’Connor, N.E. (2017). Co-occurrence of native Ostrea edulis and non-native Crassostrea gigas revealed by monitoring of intertidal oyster populations. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 98: pp. 1–10.
16Christianen, M. J. A. (2018). Return of the native facilitated by the invasive? Population composition, substrate preferences and epibenthic species richness of a recently discovered shellfish reef with native European flat oysters (Ostrea edulis) in the North Sea. Marine Biology Research 14, pp. 590–597.
17Cummins et al. (2019). op. cit.
18Chivers, L.S., Lundy, M.G., Colhoun, K., Newton, S.F., Houghton, J.D.R. & Reid, N. (2012). Foraging trip time-activity budgets and reproductive success in the black-legged kittiwake. Marine Ecology Progress Series 456: pp. 269–277.
19Cummins, S., Lewis, L.J. & Egan, S. (2016). Life on the Edge – Seabirds and Fisheries in Irish Waters. Kilcoole. BirdWatch Ireland.
20Ryan, C., Berrow, S. D., McHugh, B., O’Donnell, C., Trueman, C. N. & O’Connor, I. (2014). Prey preferences of sympatric fin (Balaenoptera physalus) and humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) whales revealed by stable isotope mixing models. Marine Mammal Science 30: pp. 242–258.
21Molloy, J. (2006). The Herring Fisheries of Ireland, 1900–2005: Biology, Research, Development, and Assessment. Galway. Marine Institute.
22Nairn, R., Jeffrey, D. & Goodbody, R. (2017). op. cit.
23O’ Sullivan, K. (2020). Swimming ban at three beaches following overflow at Ringsend wastewater treatment plant. The Irish Times. 19 June 2020.
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