Kay Foran shares her memories of how she started working in Dublin port at 16 years old.

Dublin Docklands | Employment | Women's History

Mick Foran introduces and reads his poem 'Heads in High Places'. Dock sounds are audible in the background; this was recorded just outside the fence of a container delivery area in Dublin Port.

Dublin | Poetry | Docklands

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Mick Foran reads his poem, Haunted Hallways. This was recorded just outside a container moving area close to Dublin Port, so some container sounds are audible in the background.

Dublin | Poetry | Docklands

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Mick Foran reads his poem, 'Farewell Old Dublin'. This was recorded close to a container loading area just outside Dublin Port; the background noises are of containers being moved.

Dublin | Poetry | Docklands

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Declan Byrne describes the traditions around a Dublin dock worker's funeral, including that of carrying the coffin into the church, which is still practiced at St Patrick's Church in Ringsend.

Funerals | Dublin Dockers | Local History

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Gary Brown reads his poem about leaving Dublin and crossing the Irish Sea in the ferry to Holyhead.

Dublin Bay | Poetry | Social History

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Dr James Louis Smith of University College Cork speaks about the intricate composition of Dublin Bay throughout history, exploring how this 'water-based membrane' mediates between Ireland and the rest of the world.

UNESCO Biosphere | Dublin Bay (Ireland) | Dublin Port

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Dr Joanna Hofer-Robinson of University College Cork discusses the cultural impact of Binden Blood Stoney's Dublin Diving Bell, a feat of 19th-century industrial maritime engineering that featured in playwright Dion Boucicault's 1872 play Babel and Bijou.

Theatre | Bindon Blood Stoney | Dublin Port

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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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Julie Merriman is an artist based in Dún Laoghaire who uses present-day and historical data to explore modes of inscription, replication and transmission. Her commission is a series of mimeograph postcards from all five ports, addressing cultural, natural and heritage tourism.

Industrial heritage | Built heritage | Mimeograph

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Julie Merriman is an artist based in Dún Laoghaire who uses present-day and historical data to explore modes of inscription, replication and transmission. Her commission is a series of mimeograph postcards from all five ports, addressing cultural, natural and heritage tourism.

Industrial heritage | Built heritage | Mimeograph

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