Following the Lifeboat disaster in Kingstown [now Dún Laoghaire] on Christmas Eve 1895, a financial Trust was established to dispense assistance to the families of the fifteen men who lost their lives. This book contains copies of correspondence from the Trust's secretary to the
Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster 1895 | Palme Shipwreck | Kingstown Town Commissioners
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A series of ships that sailed regularly between Rosslare and Fishguard were all named after patron saints of Britain and Ireland.
Rosslare | Ships | Saints
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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
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Dr Rita Singer, Aberystwyth University, talks about the links between Pembroke Dock and Japan, which stretch back to the time of Lt Heihachiro Togo in the late nineteenth century.
Irish Sea | Local History | Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
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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 James Louis Smith of University College Cork speaks about the Irish Sea as a watery space that is 'roiling with stories'.
Ports of entry | Travel | Connection
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Dr Claire Nolan of University College Cork describes how port places are also portals to the world.
Ports of entry | Travel | Connection
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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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Dr Elizabeth Edwards, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, retraces writer Virginia Woolf's circular tour of the Irish Sea in 1934, sailing from Fishguard to Cork and returning to Holyhead from Dublin.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 | Ireland | Wales
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Dr Rita Singer, Aberystwyth University, details King George IV's visit to Holyhead, en route to Ireland, in 1821, which was thwarted by poor weather and the death of his wife Caroline.
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 | Visits of state | Holy Island (Wales)
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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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