Irish Sea Stories

Brexit and Rosslare Europort

Brexit and Dublin Port

The Aldred D. Snow wreck

Holyhead Women of the Great War

Mary's Monologue

When Abercastle met Alfred

Tuskar Rock folklore

The Smalls Lighthouse tragedy

The Mermaid's Purse

The Waterford Shipping disaster

Ireland's first lifeboat station

The Cursing of HMS Caesar

Health in Dublin Port

The Erosion of Rosslare Spit

These stories are a selection of a large body of emerging material focused on the lives, past, present and future, of the port communities of the Irish Sea basin. They see the ports as participating in an environs that stretches across the coast, joining them with neighbouring communities across the sea and along the coast. Their diversity is a testament to the variety of experiences required to bring the histories and stories of coastal communities to life.

For more themed collections, you can view a cluster on each of the ports:

Dublin Port

Rosslare

Holyhead

Fishguard

Pembroke Dock

The crises captured in these stories touch upon the vulnerability of several intersecting systems: shipping, mail and communication, freight, the movement of people, economics, ideas, and the shifting of political phenomena such as Brexit and the disruptions of Covid-19.