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Identifier: irelandindustria00irelrich (find matches)
Title: Ireland; industrial and agricultural
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Ireland. Dept. of Agriculture and Technical Instruction Coyne, William P
Subjects: Agriculture -- Ireland Lace and lace making Industries -- Ireland Ireland -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Dublin (etc.) : Browne and Nolan, limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ine, though the place has many advantagesfor shipbuilding, and though a certain amount of activity is displayed there,the industry has not attained any great importance ; it promises well, how-ever, and the Irish Industrial Revival will doubtless benefit the Southern yard. In Dublin an effort is being made to revive the old and once prosperousshipbuilding industry on the Liffey, and an influentially supported Company,the Dublin Dockyard Company, has been formed to carry on the work.The dockyard is being rapidly put into working order, and much modernmachinery is being installed. As regards the capacity of the dockyard,there will at first be three berths available for the construction of vesselsup to 300 feet in length, and m a little time this accommodation will beincreased. It is to be hoped that the attempt to revive an industry of suchan important nature will be successful, and that it will obtain the earnestsupport of the Dublin shipowners, port authorities, and citizens at large.
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OF THE UNIVERSITY or i^L I FORNIX THE BREWING INDUSTRY IN IRELAND. 451 THE BREWING INDUSTRY IN IRELAND. The early history of brewing is somewhat obscure, owing in part to itsvery antiquity, and the history of the rise of the brewing industry inthe United Kingdom, and especially in Ireland, has been much neglected.Indeed, until 1889, when Mr. Alfred Barnard commenced his work on TheNoted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland, but little of importance hadbeen written upon the subject, and even the work referred to does not dealwith the rise or progress of brewmg in general, but only with the develop-ment of particular breweries. It is, however, clear that the art ofpreparing an alcoholic beverage from grain orAntiquity of other saccharine substances by means of a process ofBrewing. fermentation was one of mans first inventions, and in countries where the vine did not flourish, and often,even where it did, drink made from corn, generally barley, seems to havebeen common from the earlies

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