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 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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