Qualla: Larne https://qualla.com/larne en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/b/larne-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Larne https://qualla.com/larne Larne: Introduction https://qualla.com/larne/ Photo credit C LEITCH, CC BY-SA 4.0. On 26 May 1315, three hundred Scottish ships came over the horizon and made for the small harbour the Irish then called Olderfleet. Edward Bruce, brother of King Robert, came ashore with more than five thousand battle-hardened soldiers fresh from Bannockburn the previous year, and the three-year Bruce invasion of Ireland began. The place that received him was already an ancient port. Today it is Larne, the busiest ferry terminal in Northern Ireland, where a P&O ship still leaves for Scotland six times a day.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/b/larne-wk/gcgb-larne-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Larne: The Descendants of Lathar https://qualla.com/larne/ Photo credit Erl Johnston, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Irish name Latharna means 'the descendants of Lathar', a pre-Christian dynasty so old that historians cannot agree whether Lathar was a real man or a founding legend. Flints found in this area have been dated to around 6000 BC, the Middle Stone Age, which puts Larne among the...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/b/larne-wk/gcgb-larne-the-descendants-of-lathar.mp3 0:06 2 full Larne: A Tower for a Buried Man https://qualla.com/larne/ Photo credit Kateshortforbob, CC BY-SA 3.0. James Chaine died in 1885 at the age of forty-four. His town remembered him with a monument unlike anything else in Northern Ireland: a 28-metre stone replica of an Irish round tower, completed in 1888, standing as a slim pencil with a conical cap on the headland north of the har...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/b/larne-wk/gcgb-larne-a-tower-for-a-buried-man.mp3 0:06 3 full Larne: Olderfleet and the Bruces https://qualla.com/larne/ Photo credit Wilson Adams, CC BY-SA 2.0. Down by the harbour stands the ruin of Olderfleet Castle, a tower-house built in 1612 with no real signs of having been a dwelling. It seems to have been a fortified warehouse and watchtower, the last in a line of fortifications that had stood here for centuries. The medieval Old...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/b/larne-wk/gcgb-larne-olderfleet-and-the-bruces.mp3 0:06 4 full Larne: Two Hours to Scotland https://qualla.com/larne/ Photo credit Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0. Today the trade with Scotland that James Chaine built still defines the town. P&O Ferries sail from Cairnryan near Stranraer six times a day, a two-hour crossing that brings cars, trucks, and passengers into the harbour at the foot of the Chaine Monument. Look out from the docksi...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/b/larne-wk/gcgb-larne-two-hours-to-scotland.mp3 0:06 5 full Larne: Glens and Gobbins https://qualla.com/larne/ Photo credit Lindy Buckley from Nanjing, China, CC BY 2.0. The town itself can look drab on a wet Tuesday, but its setting is anything but. Just south, the Islandmagee peninsula encloses Larne Lough and ends in spectacular cliffs at The Gobbins, where a Victorian-era cliff path - rebuilt in modern form - swings out over the sea like an U...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/b/larne-wk/gcgb-larne-glens-and-gobbins.mp3 0:06 6 full Larne: An Older Industry https://qualla.com/larne/ Photo credit United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, Public domain. Larne FC, the town's professional football club, currently plays in the top tier of Northern Irish football, the NIFL Premiership, at Inver Park, a 2,500-capacity ground half a mile from the harbour. Their recent rise from the lower leagues into the championship has given the tow...

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