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Brittany Ferries is the trading name of the French shipping company, BAI Bretagne Angleterre Irlande S.A. founded in 1973 by Alexis Gourvennec, that operates a fleet of ferries and cruiseferries between France and the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain, and between Spain and Ireland and the United Kingdom.
The National Army, sometimes unofficially referred to as the Free State Army or the Regulars, was the army of the Irish Free State from January 1922 until October 1924. Its role in this period was defined by its service in the Irish Civil War , in defence of the institutions established by the Anglo-Irish Treaty .
Direct Ferries is a UK based ferry travel aggregator service that provides bookings for ferry crossings across the globe. Its main crossings include mainland Europe, such as the France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Germany; North Africa, such as Morocco and Algeria; Asia, such as China, Russia, Cambodia and Hong Kong; and the Americas, such as the United States, Canada, Peru and ...
A Free State column also dispersed anti-Treaty IRA forces in County Donegal in Ireland's north-west. [17] The largest seaborne landings took place in the south. Ships disembarked about 2,000 well equipped Free State troops into the heart of the "Munster Republic" and caused the rapid collapse of the Republican position in this province.
On 22 November, Brittany Ferries published its 2025 timetable for Guernsey. The company said it would only sail to Jersey once a week from late March, down from one or more sailings a day in ...
Prince was built in 1979 in Verolme Cork Dockyards in Ireland for B+I Line under the name Connacht for the Cork - Swansea and Cork - Pembroke Dock routes. In 1980 she was moved to the Dublin - Liverpool route, and in 1982 she was moved to the Dublin - Holyhead route.
Free Stater, or pro-Treatyite, [1] were terms, often used by opponents, to describe those in Ireland who supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 that led to the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922. [2] The pro-Treaty side included members of the Old IRA who had fought the British during the recent Irish War of Independence.
Pont-Aven is a cruiseferry operated by Brittany Ferries.She was built at Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany and has been sailing for Brittany Ferries since March 2004. She is the current and longest serving Brittany Ferries flagship; sailing between the UK, France, Spain and Ireland.