Robert Jakes is a sculptor and community artist based in south Pembrokeshire. His commission, Sea of Stories, is a ceramic mural celebrating the cultural history of the sea between Ireland and Wales. Sea of Stories I is now installed at the Ferry Terminal at Pembroke Dock. This m
Mosaic | Photography | Bisque firing
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
Ports, Past and Present focuses on the five port towns which still run ferry services between Ireland and Wales: Pembroke Dock, Rosslare Harbour, Fishguard, Dublin Port and Holyhead. It envisages the Irish Sea not as a space which separates our two countries, but a rich and stori
Creative writing | Book of poetry | Poetry