"In 1990, the author was commissioned by the then Dublin Port & Docks Board to compile a biographical sketch of one of the most illustrious of the civil engineers to be associated with the port over its long history, Bindon Blood Stoney ... The author later presented a paper in 1998 to a joint meeting of the Institutionof Engineers of Ireland Civil Division and Heritage Society on John Purser Griffith, who served as Stoney's assistant for twenty-seven years, before becoming his successor as Chief Port Engineer ... This book consists of lightly edited versions of the two previous publications and is published by the Dublin Port Company, with the permission of Engineers Ireland"--Page 4.