To the vast majority of people, when shipbuilding in Ireland is mentioned, they think only of Belfast and Harland and Wolff and the ill-fated Titanic. However, there was a vibrant shipbuilding industry in Dublin for nearly 200 years and the story of the differnt shipyards, the ships they produced and the people who worked there is told here for the first time. Pat Sweeney provided a comprehensive examination of the origins and progress of shipbuilding and ship repair on the Liffey, and documents the progression of shipbuilding industry in Dublin from its early days at the Walpole and Webb shipyard, through the boom years of the two world wars to the gradual decline of the industry in the late 20th century. Although the book covers all the sea-going vessels built in Dublin, it also covers a lot of the vessels built for the Grand Canal Company, for Messrs. Guinness and the last ship ever built in dublin and well known to Shannon boaters the Waterways Ireland maintenance ship Coill an Eo.