{"id":70,"date":"2020-10-21T14:36:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T13:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2020-11-20T12:25:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T12:25:55","slug":"brian-j-goggin-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2020\/10\/21\/brian-j-goggin-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian J Goggin RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is with great upset that I post to record the passing of one of Ireland\u2019s greats in the area of industrial heritage research \u2013 Brian J Goggin, who has passed away due to cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I first encountered Brian in his role as editor of the IWAI magazine, in which capacity, I had sent a photo to him for consideration for publication. This was of frogs swimming in frogspawn on the Royal Canal (reproduced below). I am happy to state that Brian published it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Frogs
Frogs in Spawn, Royal Canal, Longford, 17 March 2004. Copyright Ewan Duffy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As time went by and the prospect of the Ulster Canal being \u201crestored\u201d\nreared its ugly head, I became what I thought was a lone voice in the\nwilderness in opposing such restoration. It was to my great (and pleasant\nsurprise) that I found a bedfellow in opposing this waste of taxpayers\u2019 money\nin Brian \u2013 a former President of the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland\n(and boat owner) no less!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially, I was unaware of Brian\u2019s views about the Ulster\nCanal and, upon seeing him at the back of an IHAI AGM for the first time, I\nignored him, thinking that he had been brought on board to bolster the IHAI\nstance of tacitly supporting restoration of the Ulster Canal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian, being of a gregarious nature, unlike me, approached\nme at, I believe, the IHAI AGM in Belmont Mill in 2009 to compliment me on my\nwebsite (an earlier version of this one) and from there, a friendship was\nformed. Over the years, Brian and I have exchanged emails back and forth about\nwaterways and IH matters with many snippets of information passing between us\n(although, if I am to be honest, it was more information from Brian to me than\nvice versa).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Included in this collaboration was Brian generously offering\nme the chance to include my research into the bridges of the Royal Canal\nbetween the sea lock and Phibsborough in Dublin in a book that he was working\non. This was subsequently published by the Railway and Canal Historical Society\nin 2014 as \u201cThe Royal Under the Railway: Ireland\u2019s Royal Canal 1830 \u2013 1899\u201d \u2013\nan 8 chapter work documenting previously unpublished historical matters about\nthe Royal Canal (Chapter 7 was my contribution).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like myself, Brian has maintained a website (www.irishwaterwayshistory.com<\/a>)\non which he has published his research (into the inland waterways and\nnavigations of Ireland), the maintenance of which I hope can be secured and the\ninformation thereon \u2013 if not the site itself \u2013 transferred to another host, in\norder that it can be preserved for future use by others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ireland has lost the most significant researcher into the\nhistory of its inland waterways and navigations and I wish to extend my deepest\ncondolences to his wife Anne and their children on their loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ewan Duffy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.industrialheritageireland.info<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is with great upset that I post to record the passing of one of Ireland\u2019s greats in the area of industrial heritage research \u2013 Brian J Goggin, who has passed away due to cancer. I first encountered Brian in his role as editor of the IWAI magazine, in which capacity, I had sent a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}