Captain David Williams remembers match days and crossings in rough weather and how both kept crew and passengers on their toes in different ways.

Rugby | Irish Sea | Weather

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Agnes Ferguson talks about taking the ferry across from Rosslare to Fishguard on many occasions to go holidaying or to visit friends and family.

Rosslare Harbour | Irish Sea | Family History

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Agnes Ferguson shares her memories of growing up in Rosslare.

Rosslare Harbour | Irish Sea | Family History

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Best known for her ‘paper mosaicks’, or botanically accurate flower collages, Mary Delany (1700-1788) spent a lot of time crossing – or waiting to cross – the Irish Sea.

Mary Delany | Crossing | Irish Sea

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We can gain a new perspective from stories containing humour, history and anecdote in the folklore gathered by the Irish Schools’ Collection of the 1930s, now held in the National Folklore Collection, like this story about the origins of the magpie in Ireland.

Wexford Town | Irish Sea | Birdlife

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Captain David Williams remembers the introduction of side-loading car ferries in the 1970s and the changes this entailed on the ferry route between Fishguard and Rosslare.

Ferries | Irish Sea | 1970s

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As points of entry, ports play a pivotal role in public health. In 1918, a failure to quarantine either people or goods at Dublin port played a key role in the spread of the Spanish flu.

Health | Irish Sea | Spanish Influenza

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This is the Sea’ by The Waterboys speaks of opportunities and forging new destinies whilst alluding to spiritual experiences. With this in mind, a recent ferry crossing to Ireland made me think how the Irish Sea has been a conduit of historical forces.

Irish Sea | Conquests | Personal Reflections

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An innocuous journey or surfing the waves of history? How a ferry voyage can connect us with the seascape and nudge the historical consciousness.

Ferry | Fishguard | Rosslare

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The Irish Sea has been traversed, east and west, over millennia. In the 1700s, however, the Sea took on an additional dimension. With the rise of Liverpool as an Atlantic port, it became the great thoroughfare of English slaving.

Irish Sea | Atlantic Slave Trade | Ports

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The invention of hot air balloon travel in the 1780s transformed the relationship between air and sea. But crossing the Irish Sea by balloon would prove to be no easy matter. This story discusses the first successful Irish Sea crossing by hot air balloon by Windham Sadler in 1817

North Wales | Irish Sea | Ballooning

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The invention of hot air balloon travel in the 1780s transformed the relationship between air and sea. But crossing the Irish Sea by balloon would prove to be no easy matter. This story discusses the beginning of those efforts. This story discusses the failures encountered in the

North Wales | Irish Sea | Ballooning

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