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The National Chronicles of a Dun Laoghaire Yacht Club (Paperback)
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The National Chronicles of a Dun Laoghaire Yacht Club (Paperback)
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Loot Price R434
Discovery Miles 4 340
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This entertaining work by Donal O'Sullivan tells how the National
Yacht Club developed, from its beginnings as a rowing club,
comfortably set down in the northeast corner of Dun Laoghaire
Harbour, how it nearly went under on a couple of occasions, was
threatened with forced migration to a less salubrious part of the
Dun Laoghaire Harbour and ultimately grew into one of the finest
yacht clubs in Dublin. Donal has called the work chronicles because
he is uneasy about calling it a history. A yacht club, a building,
is not something you can easily put a history on, not least this
one which lost over 100 years of its records in two disastrous
conflagrations. So what is presented here is a narrative of the
club's evolution not so much by way of its physical or
organisational structure but by particular reference to some of the
people who featured in the club's story, or who gave the club a
perceptible quality which might be thought characteristic of the
National Yacht Club. The Greek word ethos would be too grand to
describe it. Rather it's a certain singularity, a disinclination to
be too predictable or over respectful to convention or the accepted
way of doing things. This is not to say that dramatic events did
not occur at the NYC, not the least of which was the homecoming
party for Annalise Murphy after she won a Silver Medal in the 2016
Summer Olympics. As the Commodore, Martin McCarthy notes, 'As
temporary custodians of the club, this history reminds us of how
the many previous Commodores, Flag Officers and members adapted
their policies and operations to meet the ever-changing
requirements of Dublin and Ireland's sailing fraternity.... We owe
a great debt of gratitude to Donal O'Sullivan for his ... engaging
and entertaining writing style [and] breathtaking knowledge of who,
what, where and when, which captures many of the milestones on the
lifetime of the club in the last 150 years.'
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