This document is a report summarising the process of creating the collections preserved in the Digital Repository of Ireland by the Archiving Reproductive Health (ARH) project. Archiving Reproductive Health was a Wellcome-funded project coordinated by the Digital Repository o
Digital preservation | Archival resources | Archives
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This document provides a guide to the collections preserved in the Digital Repository of Ireland by the Archiving Reproductive Health project. Archiving Reproductive Health was a Wellcome-funded project coordinated by the Digital Repository of Ireland, which worked to preserve di
Digital preservation | Archival resources | Archives
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Daryl Hendley Rooney talks about Gerald's depiction of the Irish across the sea in the Topographia Hibernica.
Gerald of Wales | Medieval History | Ireland
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Daryl Hendley Rooney uses the example of Gerald of Wales and his grandmother Nest to explore the close and shifting ties of aristocratic Welsh, Norman and Irish families across the Irish Sea.
Middle Ages | Ireland | Wales
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Dr Elizabeth Edwards, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, outlines the excitement brought about by the technological advancement of travel by hot air balloon, and details the attempts to cross the Irish Sea in the early nineteenth centur
Wales | Crossing | Hot air balloons
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Dr Claire Nolan of University College Cork details the 'sense of communitas' depicted in the film At Water's Edge, which documents everyday life in the five ports on the Irish Sea.
Film mini-series | Irish Sea | Fishguard (Wales)
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Dr Martin Crampin, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, decribes the life of St Cybi, and the connections between Welsh and Irish saints through the centuries.
Saint Cybi | Holy Island (Wales) | Saints
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The Irish Sea basin forms a distinct network of histories, economies, and identities. Discover five Celtic port towns in Wales and Ireland that are connected and intertwined by the ferry routes that serve them: Holyhead, Fishguard, Pembroke Dock, Rosslare Harbour and Dublin Port.
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Commemorative booklet marking 50 years of Irish membership of the European Union (English text)
History
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The Irish Sea was described by the geographer Emrys Bowen as the ‘Celtic Lake’; a lake charac-terised by a continual movement of people back and forth between Ireland and Wales. From the legendary journeys of early Celtic saints, to the account of the great satirical writer Jonat
Connections | Ferry terminals | Ferry crossings
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The Irish Sea was described by the geographer Emrys Bowen as the ‘Celtic Lake’; a lake charac-terised by a continual movement of people back and forth between Ireland and Wales. From the legendary journeys of early Celtic saints, to the account of the great satirical writer Jonat
Connections | Ferry terminals | Ferry crossings
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