Results for subject term "Holyhead": 31
Stories
King George IV’s Visit to Holyhead | Ymweliad Brenin Sior IV â Chaergybi
The day for which Holyhead had so anxiously prepared had finally arrived: newly-crowned King George IV (1820-1830) was making his first visit to Holyhead as a stop-off in his inaugural grand tour. In the early evening hours of Monday, August 6,…
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…
Drama on the Irish Sea
Travel is often eventful and never without risks. One hundred years ago the mail boat and train service between Dublin and London Euston was the critical travel infrastructure supporting the Anglo-Irish treaty negotiations. On the morning of 3rd…
The Foresters Arms Collection
Stephen Magee is a member of the family that were the proprietors of the former Foresters Arms pub in Holyhead, and a custodian of its history. Stephen shared photographs of an impressive family memorabilia collection once situated in the pub with…
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:…
Standing on the Platform
History has played out on the route between Dublin and London, and the Port of Holyhead was often the critically timed step across the Irish Sea. Over an intense three-month period one hundred years ago, Irish delegations and secret documents…
Mynydd Twr
Cynefin, cynefinoedd
habitat,
accustomed, conversant, familiar, intimate
Hiraeth
grief, homesickness, longing, nostalgia, wistfulness
-Geiriadur Prifysgol Bangor University
Cynefin. Roots. Familiarity. The pull that breeds Hiraeth…
Selling Welsh Ice Cream by the Sea | Gwerthu Hufen Iâ Cymru ar lan y Môr
I’ve been a truck driver for 30 years. In recent years I've been delivering food to supermarket main depots, so I worked all through lockdown.I've lived in Anglesey for nine years, but for the last three years, after my divorce, I was travelling…
Motion Sickness
Recently my sister Karen and I discussed our memories of visits to Ireland as children - we would go most years to visit Mum’s side of the family in West Cork. Before budget airlines shortened and cheapened the trips, Dad would drive the car from…
We are Bragdy Cybi | Bragdy Cybi ydan ni
We are Dan and Bethan Jones and we are the owners of Bragdy Cybi, a micro-brewery in Holyhead. We moved to Holyhead in 2006 when Dan was relocated by his employer.
Dan losing his job in 2019 was the catalyst for us to become self-employed and…