PORTS, PAST & PRESENT

Welcome to Ports, Past and Present. This site will help you explore the rich culture, heritage and creativity of five ports around the Irish Sea:

Dublin Port
Fishguard
Holyhead
Pembroke Dock
Rosslare Harbour

What will you find?

Here you can discover films, stories, artworks and podcasts that bring these five port towns to life as places in which to pause and explore.

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Ports, Past and Present

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PORTS

PORT STORIES

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FILMS

PODCASTS

TOURISM GUIDE

TEACHERS’ GUIDE

CREATIVE PORTS

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Use the Port Places App to enliven your journey at sea between Ireland and Wales. You can download the app, either in advance or when visiting the ports.

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Port Places will act as your guide to discovering the best stories that these beautiful coastal destinations have to offer.

We invite tourism businesses and educators to use this site – including our stories, films, creative works and podcasts – in their own way to develop marketing material and new lesson plans and tours. We’ve created ‘how to’ materials for tourism businesses and teachers to inspire you to use Ports, Past and Present. The project has also archived all its work in a safe place where it will be available for many years to come.

Ports, Past and Present was a 4-year operation funded by funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales Co-operation Programme. It was a joint project between University College Cork, Aberystwyth University, the University of Wales Trinity St David and Wexford County Council. You can read more about the project here.