Cathrine Agnew of Wexford County Council outlines the emigration route to Argentina from Wexford, the unexpected links with the Welsh emigrant community in Patagonia and the successful story of John James Murphy, from Kilrane, Co Wexford.

Ports, Past and Present is a 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.

Cathrine Agnew - Wexford Emigration to Argentina

Dr Claire Nolan of University College Cork details the 'sense of communitas' depicted in the film At Water's Edge, which documents everyday life in the five ports on the Irish Sea.

Ports, Past and Present is a 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.

Claire Nolan - At Water's Edge

Dr Claire Nolan of University College Cork describes how port places are also portals to the world.

Ports, Past and Present is a 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.

Claire Nolan - Ports as Portals

Dr Elizabeth Edwards, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, retraces writer Virginia Woolf's circular tour of the Irish Sea in 1934, sailing from Fishguard to Cork and returning to Holyhead from Dublin.

Ports, Past and Present is a 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.

Elizabeth Edwards - Virginia Woolf in Ireland

Dr Joanna Hofer-Robinson of University College Cork discusses the cultural impact of Binden Blood Stoney's Dublin Diving Bell, a feat of 19th-century industrial maritime engineering that featured in playwright Dion Boucicault's 1872 play Babel and Bijou.

Ports, Past and Present is a 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.

Joanna Hofer Robinson - Dublin Diving Bell

Prof Mary-Ann Constantine of University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, describes her 2021 visit to the Last Invasion memorial stone at Carregwasted, reflecting on the processes of memorialisation and the embodied experience as a researcher.

Ports, Past and Present is a 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.

Mary Ann Constantine - The Last Invasion

Dr Rita Singer, Aberystwyth University, details King George IV's visit to Holyhead, en route to Ireland, in 1821, which was thwarted by poor weather and the death of his wife Caroline.

Ports, Past and Present is a 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.

Rita Singer - King George IV in Holyhead

The Irish Sea basin forms a distinct node of histories, economies, and identities. The Ports, Past and Present project considers five very different ports and their communities on either side of the sea: Dublin Port, Rosslare Harbour, Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock. Project partners are University College Cork, Aberystwyth University, University of Wales Trinity Saint David and Wexford County Council.

The project seeks to enhance engagement among port town communities with their own rich heritage and that of the Irish Sea, and to use that heritage in promoting tourism and deepening a sense of shared identity. 

This is being done through the co-production, with communities, of online heritage stories (over 200 and counting), high-quality documentary films, 12 creative commissions, community-focused events, tourism networks including free heritage tourism training, and a heritage tourism app.

Funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales Co-operation Programme

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