Islands of Ireland: Waller's Island — named for a man who signed a king's death warrant

A plane crashed beside Waller's Island in 1958, causing the death of a photographer. Another photographer got a last-minute change of instructions and avoided the tragedy

Waller's Island, County Limerick in the Shannon Estuary. Picture: Dan MacCarthy

It is a particular misfortune when those who are helping in the aftermath of one disaster themselves die as a consequence. Such was the fate that awaited aerial photographer and charter pilot, Alexander Morgan, on the night of January 15, 1958 when his plane crashed beside Waller’s Island on the Shannon Estuary.

The Cork Examiner, January 18, 1958