Can’t get away from the wine. Came across a good story while visiting the Abandoned Ireland exhibition www.abandonedIreland.com in the Cork Vision Centre at the weekend. In one of the big houses, Doonass, the gardai moved in to confiscate some 1400 bottles of German wine. This was during the building of the Ardnacrusha Hydro-electric scheme.
Wikipedia: In 1924-25 the new Irish Free State's Minister for Industry and Commerce Patrick McGilligan commissioned the engineer Dr. Thomas McLoughlin to submit proposals. Dr McLoughlin had started working for Siemens-Schuckert, a large German engineering firm, in late 1922, and produced a scheme that would cost £5.2m. This caused considerable political controversy as the new state's entire budget in 1925 was £25m, but it was accepted.
Back to the wine. The bottles, worth £700, were seized and the house steward, who had been doing a roaring “duty-free” trade with German workers on the site and apparently with others, was fined ten pounds. Is this idea for another video by Grapes of Sloth? read more....
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