A look back on Cobh’s horticultural heroine, Anne Elizabeth Ball

Fiann Ó Nualláin looks back at the life of Anne Elizabeth Ball, a botanist whose work is illuminating our future.

Most people would be forgiven for only knowing of Cobh’s maritime history: The Titanic, the Lusitania, famine ships to America and transportation ships to Australia.

It’s funny that one of the oldest names for Cobh is Oileán Ard Neimheadh after Nemed, one of the early settlers of Ireland of whom it is claimed a genealogy going back to Noah.