Ports, Past and Present
A project by Ports, Past and Present ProjectA project led by University College Cork in partnership with Aberystwyth University, the University of Wales Trinity St David and Wexford County Council examining the cultural heritage of the ports in the Irish sea basin. Funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales Cooperation programme. | Mae prosiect dan arweiniad Coleg Prifysgol Corc, mewn cydweithrediad â Phrifysgol Aberystwyth, Prifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant a chyngor sir Loch Garman (Wexford) yn mynd archwilio treftadaeth ddiwylliannol y porthladdoedd ar y naill ochr i’r môr. Noddir gan Gronfa Datblygu Rhanbarthol Ewrop trwy Raglen Iwerddon Cymru.
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Nautical Imagery at St Davids Cathedral | Delweddau Morwrol yng Nghadeirlan Tyddewi
The interior of St Davids Cathedral contains some fascinating traces of Pembrokeshire's maritime history that visitors can discover. Some of these legacies can be found in the misericords, wooden structures on the underside of the folding seats of…
Pembroke Dockyard's Famous Ginkgo Tree | Coeden Ginkgo Enwog Dociau Penfro
Until the mid-nineteenth century, Japan was a pre-modern state governed by a network of powerful families and warlords led by its Shogun, isolated from the rest of the world. At that point, there was a growing realisation that China and Russia were…
Dublin Dockers Through the Years
The Dublin Dockers started by collecting old photographs and are delighted to report that our collection has broken through the 4,000 mark. In addition, people have donated over 6,000 documents which we have passed on to Dublin City Council. Most of…
Random Stories
The Ballad of the Tinnaberna Fishermen
County Wexford is no stranger to the musical tradition of ballads and the county possesses a rich and varied repertoire of verse. Given the long stretch of coastline that runs along Wexford county and the tradition of fishing, especially for…
Lore from the Wexford Coast
The Irish Sea coastline of County Wexford is encrusted with the folklore, knowledges, practices and cultural connections of its people. When the children of the Schools' Collection interviewed elderly relatives and members of the community, they…
Brexit and Dublin Port
At 5 o’clock on the morning of 31 January 2020, a handful of reporters and press photographers huddled in the pre-dawn rain at Dublin Port, where a group of senior Fine Gael politicians had donned yellow high-viz vests for a photo op. Then…
Nautical Imagery at St Davids Cathedral | Delweddau Morwrol yng Nghadeirlan Tyddewi
The interior of St Davids Cathedral contains some fascinating traces of Pembrokeshire's maritime history that visitors can discover. Some of these legacies can be found in the misericords, wooden structures on the underside of the folding seats of…
The Ancient Fish Traps of Fishguard Bay | Trapiau pysgod hynafol ym Mae Abergwaun
It is thought that Fishguard was named from the Old Norse Fiskigarðr,a ‘fish catching enclosure’. What remains here today is very unlikely to date back that far but we know the style of low-walled hook-shaped trap is an ancient one. Remains of…
Women and the Ireland-Wales Crossing | Merched yn croesi rhwng Iwerddon a Chymru
When Mary Wollstonecraft crossed from Holyhead to Dublin – ‘the best and shortest passage’, she noted – in October 1786, she was lucky. ‘[T]he weather was fine the prospects delightful’, she wrote in a letter to Eliza Bishop, looking back on the…