Stories tagged "Mordaith": 4
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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,…
Ramón de Perellós passes through Holyhead | Ramón de Perellós yn teithio drwy Gaergybi
On September 8th, 1397, the Catalan nobleman Viscount Ramón de Perellós set forth from Avignon with the blessing of Antipope Benedict XIII on a journey that would take him across the English Channel, the Kingdom of England, into Wales and then…
The Worst Spot in Wales | Y Lle Gwaethaf yng Nghymru
In September of 1727, Jonathan Swift embarked on a return trip to Ireland from London. Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, Swift was riding high on the success of his recently published Gulliver’s Travels. He was also though anxious for news…
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…