Results for subject term "Môr Iwerddon": 4
Stories
This is the Sea, Part II | Dyma'r Môr, Rhan II
The Vikings in the ninth and tenth centuries established Dyflin (Dublin) and Jórvik (York) as colonial centres and the Irish Sea became a maritime thoroughfare between the two in addition to playing a key navigation route around the islands’ shores.…
This is the Sea, Part I | Dyma'r Môr, Rhan I
There is a song by the folk rock band The Waterboys called ‘This is the Sea’. It concerns the changes in life, using the sea as a metaphor: Once you were tethered, Now you are free, That was the river, This is the sea. For some reason I had those…
Wordsworth on the Holyhead Road | Wordsworth ar y Ffordd i Gaergybi
‘What dreadful weather!’ Dorothy Wordsworth exclaimed on 28 August 1829. She had ‘a hundred fears’ because her brother William was going to cross the Irish Sea from Holyhead the following night.As they would soon find out, ‘three vessels had been…
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…