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AIVP, the worldwide network of port cities, is organising a series of webinars titled Port City Talks to continue to debate, to build the port city of tomorrow and to keep in touch with its members.

The next AIVP webinar will be held this Wednesday 28 October 2020 at 1pm Irish time, moderated by Carola Hein, professor and head of the History of Architecture and Urban Planning Chair at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Participants include Jyoti Hosagrahar, deputy director of Unesco’s World Heritage Centre, and Lar Joye, port heritage director with the Dublin Port Company.

These webinars are exclusively for AIVP members, but those who wish to attend or want to learn more can visit the AIVP website HERE.

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The Rankin Dinghy of Cobh, Cork Harbour 

A Rankin is a traditional wooden dinghy which was built in Cobh, of which it’s believed there were 80 and of which The Rankin Dinghy Group has traced nearly half. 

The name of the Rankin dinghies is revered in Cork Harbour and particularly in the harbourside town of Cobh.

And the name of one of those boats is linked to the gunboat which fought against the Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Easter Rising and later for the emergent Irish Free State Government against anti-Treaty Forces during the Irish Civil War.

It also links the renowned boat-building Rankin family in Cobh, one of whose members crewed on the gunboat.

Maurice Kidney and Conor English are driving the restoration of the Rankin dinghies in Cork Harbour. They have discovered that Rankins were bought and sailed in several parts of the country.