+ More options
DRI Logo

Search

Search Results

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

Hospitality | Holyhead | B&B

Object type is text   Text
Object The Orient B&B, Holyheadcover

Myles Pepper reminisces on the journey of the West Wales Arts Centre from 1987 to now.

Visual culture | Culture | Wine

Object type is text   Text
Object West Wales Art Centrecover

These guides are passionate about the rich history of Anglesey.

Tour guides | Anglesey | Holyhead

Object type is text   Text
Object Anglesey Tourist Guidescover

A stained glass window in Fishguard by one of Wales’ most distinguished artists in stained glass was paid for by past and present parishioners and alludes to the winter storms.

Fishguard | Stained Glass | Churches

Object type is text   Text
Object The People’s Window, Fishguardcover

Fairies are frequent characters in stories from across Wales. The fairies known as Plant Rhys Ddwfn sometimes appear as mermaids in Pembrokeshire folklore.

Fishguard | Folk beliefs | Folklore

Object type is text   Text
Object Of Mermaids and Fairiescover

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

Object type is text   Text
Object Of Cock Fights and Duelscover

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

Object type is text   Text
Object Stained Glass at St Seiriol’scover

Images of St Patrick, the apostle of Ireland, can be found in churches located in or not far from most of the ports linking Ireland and Wales.

Ringsend | St Patrick | Stained Glass

Object type is text   Text
Object St Patrick in Ringsendcover

Linda Asman relates the story of Princess Nest, the Medieval ‘Helen of Wales’, famous for her legendary beauty which, like Helen of Troy, ultimately led to her abduction and civil war.

Welsh Medieval History | Irish Medieval History | Nest ferch Rhys

Object type is text   Text
Object Nest ferch Rhys – Princess of Deheubarthcover

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

Object type is text   Text
Object St Cybi in Holyhead – and in Irelandcover