Stories tagged "Holyhead Maritime Museum": 4
Stories
Caergybi’s Unique Hospitality for Countess Markievicz | Lletygarwch Unigryw Caergybi ar gyfer Iarlles Markievicz
In the decade 1912-1923, continuous waves of events impacted Irish society, including the 1913 Lockout, the First World War, the 1916 Easter Rising, the Spanish flu, the War of Independence, Anglo-Irish treaty, partition, Civil War and finally the…
Billy-in-the-Bowl
Billy lived in Holyhead in the nineteenth century. He was a young man affected by paraplegia in a time when society still operated under conventional notions of ‘perfection,’ and of the many important stories presented in the invaluable Holyhead:…
Salt, or Evelyn on the Shore | Halen, neu Evelyn ar y Lan
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”―Rudyard Kipling.
I love visiting Museums. You’ll always hear Writers and Storytellers say that stories, in whatever form, bind us and that we can only really learn how…
St Columba, Saint and Ship | Sant Columba, Sant a Llong
One of the most fascinating and certainly the largest objects on display at the Museum is the Franta Belsky mural that once graced the Forward Lounge on the Holyhead ship MV St Columba.
The vessel was named after the sixth century Irish monk who…