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The Orient B&B, Holyhead

This family run B&B in Holyhead offers warm hospitality and fantastic food.

Hospitality | Holyhead | B&B

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Anglesey Tourist Guides

These guides are passionate about the rich history of Anglesey.

Tour guides | Anglesey | Holyhead

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Of Cock Fights and Duels

On 9 June 1783, Carl Gottlob Küttner spent a day in Holyhead discovering the town’s diversions during his wait for the next boat to Dublin.

Holyhead | Carl Gottlob Küttner

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Stained Glass at St Seiriol’s

Although the Church of St Seiriol has long disappeared from Holyhead’s skyline, some of its stained glass can still be seen in Holyhead.

Holyhead | Stained Glass | Churches

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St Cybi in Holyhead – and in Ireland

The name Holyhead in Welsh is Caergybi (the fort of Cybi), and the saint and his church at Holyhead is surely the reason that Holyhead, and Holy Island on which it is found, acquired its sanctity.

Holy Island | St Cybi | Holyhead

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That Purple Place

A community interest company based in Holyhead.

Business story | Holyhead | Social enterprise

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My Life on the Irish Sea: A Few Memories

Welsh-Irish archaeologist, Frances Lynch Llewellyn, recounts memories of her field trips to Ireland, and the sea crossings from Holyhead to Dublin and Dun Laoighaire from the 1960s to the present day. 

Welsh and Irish archaeology | Irish Sea Crossings | Dublin Port

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Mary’s Monologue

Holyhead writer and performer, Gillian Brownson, performs the heroic actions and achievements of one of RMS Leinster’s few female survivors, Mary Coffey.

RMS Leinster | Monologue | Holyhead

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Major Thomas Swift of Holyhead

The Irish Ferries catamaran, Dublin Swift, is named after Jonathan Swift, the eighteenth-century dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. But he was not the only Swift to loom large in the history of the crossing from Holyhead to Dublin.

Thomas Swift | Holyhead | English Civil War

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King George IV’s Visit to Holyhead

Few events produced such excitement in this little town at the edge of the Irish Sea as the first royal visit in centuries; when King George IV was delayed on his journey to Ireland in 1821.

Royalty | State Visits | Holyhead

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