Stories by author "Elizabeth Edwards": 5
Stories
Virginia Woolf Travels to Ireland, 1934 | Virginia Woolf yn teithio i Iwerddon, 1934
Virginia Woolf travelled widely in Britain and Europe throughout her life, but visited Ireland only once. On 27 April 1934, she sailed out from Fishguard to Cork for a motoring tour with her husband Leonard, visiting the novelist Elizabeth Bowen at…
The First Irish Sea Balloon Crossing: Success | Croesiad Cyntaf Môr Iwerddon mewn Balŵn: Llwyddiant
The race to be the first to cross the Irish Sea by hot air balloon would turn out to be a family affair. After James Sadler’s high-profile attempt failed in October 1812, the baton was taken up by his 20-year-old aeronaut son, Windham Sadler, in…
The First Irish Sea Balloon Crossing: Failures and Rescues | Croesiad Cyntaf Môr Iwerddon mewn Balŵn: Methiannau ac Achub
The invention of hot air balloon travel in the 1780s was an international sensation, and intrepid individual aeronauts quickly took on the challenge of trying to complete increasingly daring journeys. However, efforts to cross the Irish Sea for the…
The First Irish Sea Balloon Crossing: Beginnings | Croesiad Cyntaf Môr Iwerddon mewn Balŵn: Dechrau arni
From the first manned hot air balloon flight in Paris in November 1783, balloons exerted a powerful force on the public imagination. Early observers of hot air balloons were not sure exactly what they were for, but ballooning’s capacity for setting…
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…