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Daryl Hendley Rooney talks about Gerald's depiction of the Irish across the sea in the Topographia Hibernica.

Gerald of Wales | Medieval History | Ireland

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Object Gerald of Wales on the Irishcover

Virginia Woolf is best known as a pioneering novelist and key member of the Bloomsbury group, but her diaries and letters show that she was also an experienced traveller, and travel writer. She visited Ireland only once, but her conflicted responses to the people and places she e

Virginia Woolf | Fishguard | Ireland

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Object Virginia Woolf Travels to Ireland, 1934cover

Professor Richard Bradley provides a window into the nature of harbours and travel in the Irish Sea during prehistory, a subject which features in his new book, Maritime Archaeology on Dry Land.

Prehistoric Harbours | Ireland | Wales

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Object Earlier Prehistoric Harbours in Ireland and Britaincover

Daryl Hendley Rooney uses the example of Gerald of Wales and his grandmother Nest to explore the close and shifting ties of aristocratic Welsh, Norman and Irish families across the Irish Sea.

Middle Ages | Ireland | Wales

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Object Twelfth-Century Family Tiescover

The Irish Sea separates Ireland from Wales, but perhaps it wasn’t always the case. There are some tantalising hints that suggest a series of giant “stepping stones” that might have made it a lot easier to cross from Wales to Wicklow long ago.

Ireland | Wales | Mythology

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Object Stepping Stone between Wales and Ireland?cover

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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Object James Louis Smith - Watery Spacescover

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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Object Claire Nolan - Ports as Portalscover

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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Object Martin Crampin - St Cybi Printscover

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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Object Elizabeth Edwards - Virginia Woolf in Irelandcover

Since its creation, Rosslare Harbour has employed many members from the community to work in the port, on the ferries and related tourism services. Agnes Ferguson is back in this episode and chats with Ports, Past and Present about family history, how her grandfather and father w

Ferry routes | Tourism | Ireland

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Object Working on the Ferries and in the Tourist Officecover