Perched on a "fairly stable" part of the Earth's crust, Ireland is not exposed to such phenomena - or so the theory went until the geologist began his research, as part of a project supported by NUI Galway's millennium fund... [READ MORE Irish Times 6 July 2002]
1st August 1852
On a calm, fine day in August 1852, 15 people were close to the limestone ledges of Inis Mór, the largest of the Aran islands, when a wave rose up out of the sea and swept them to their deaths.
