The former Wicklow Harbour Master Captain John Michael Barlow will be laid to rest today (Wednesday, April 10) in Rathnew Cemetery following his funeral mass taking place in St Patrick’s Church.
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On April 19th, 1866, Alfred Holt, a Liverpudlian engineer who had apprenticed on the Liverpool & Manchester railroad before taking up steamship design in the 1850s, launched a singular ship that he dubbed the Agamemnon. As the third soon of a prosperous banker, cotton broker, and insurer, he had access to far more personal capital…