Cobh

marketing and advertising the adventure centre to a larger market group. Currently, Spike Island Adventure have expanded their product and operate in three surrounding towns, Aghada, Monkstown and Crosshaven. However, the customers from these towns are brought to Spike Island in Cobh. By conducting business with these surrounding towns, it could potentially enable Spike Island Adventure to extend their business to these towns in the future when there is more financial resources available. In addition to this, Spike Island Adventure could possibly form partnerships with other tourism businesses or businesses that are offering a similar product/service. The adventure centre has already established partnerships…

named Jane, who was born on May 19,1911. Leila also had three siblings. The oldest one was William Andrew Meyer (1880), then came Horace Andrew (1882), and finally she was born in (1886). Leila was the youngest of the three children. Her husband Edgar, was a mechanical engineer and an postgraduate of Cornell University and his discovery of a method to measure the velocity of flame propagation in gasoline engines became a standard technique. After his graduation from college, he joined his…

Even though people said the Titanic was unsinkable, it still sunk. The Titanic had about 2,208 people on board and 1,503 people died. When the Titanic was sinking 28 people got on a lifeboat and 63 could have fit on. The next morning 300 and more dead bodies were pulled out of the sea the next morning after the titanic sunk. Some people say the captain was turning and accidentally swiped against an iceberg and got hit and some other people say the captain got drunk and wasn't paying attention…

When: The building of the Titanic started in the early months of 1909 and the construction lasted three years. On April 10th, 1912, the “unsinkable” ship departed from Europe. No more than four days later, the Titanic hit an iceberg around 11:30 p.m. and sank 2:20 a.m. Where: The Titanic embarked on it’s maiden voyage from the ports of Southhampton, England to New York City, New York. Before traveling across the Atlantic Ocean, the Titanic stopped in Queenstown, Ireland, which is now known as…

floor plan of the upper room in the Owens Art Gallery into this natural landscape. She meticulously measured the location in the woods, delineated the gallery walls using pink construction tape attaching it to trees at specific points. The viewing path was constructed using scraps of planks. This abstract ‘forest gallery’ was brought back and setup into the Owens Art Gallery space. The installation contained furniture, sculptures, walls, sub-floor, all constructed from scraps of wood, and the…

My mother’s mother’s family was from another little suburb of Cork called Cobh also in the County of Cork. My mother’s father’s family moved to the United States in 1897, where they ended up in Michigan in 1904 after moving around looking for a place to settle down. The area they settled in was just outside of Carlton in what is now known as Sumpter Township. They also were farmers, they had a small farm in Sumpter and raised cows and chickens. My mother’s father was born in 1920, he was the…

‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’, it is the children’s instinct which tells them not to pass the lamppost in pursuit of the stag. Unlike Fionn, however, the children ignore the instinct. They go on to chase the deer, and thus, find themselves tumbling out of the wardrobe, and back into their home world. Born in Belfast and raised there until the age of nine, Lewis was probably told many stories from Irish mythology as a young boy. His mother, Flora Hamilton, was of Scottish descent, and…