History on our doorstep - The Voyage of the Steamship Sirius
When you’ve lived in a place for a certain time, you tend to get caught up in the mundane everyday trappings of life and lose focus of some of the more extraordinary stories that may have taken place just outside your door. Even events that changed history may pass you buy unnoticed as you race past a small unassuming plaque on a house on your way back from a lunch break that has once again taken far too long. Here in the Cork area, these tie-ins are legion. From the house of one of the most ground-breaking mathematicians of all times to the streets walked by an anti-slavery activist, to a journey that caused the western world to shrink dramatically, many of these places, steeped in history, may elicit nothing more than a sideward glance. The small Maritime Museum housed in a single-story building in Passage West is one of the only links to the town's maritime past. Today, the town is little more than a suburb and dormitory town for Cork. One of these places is Passage West, on the...