Stories tagged "Pembrokeshire Coast": 4
Stories
Rebels and Revolutionaries | Gwrthryfelwyr a Chwyldroadwyr
The ‘Last Invasion of Britain’: was the last occasion on which enemy troops set foot on British soil. It took place in the context of other planned, but unsuccessful, landings in Ireland and other parts of the British coast, which the French hoped…
The Last Invasion: Fishguard and Goodwick
Bring the past to life and reimagine the present with a range of perspectives as diverse as the connections between Ireland and Wales across the Irish Sea.
Developed by Mary-Ann Constantine and Cathrine Agnew of the Ports, Past and Present Project…
Dyffryn Fernant
A fifteen-minute drive from Fishguard/Goodwick Port Dyffryn Fernant lies at the end of a narrow lane where hedgerows are spangled with rose-red campion and cow parsley. This six-acre garden is tucked neatly into the Preseli uplands; the Irish Sea is…
Picturing the Battle of Fishguard | Portreadu Brwydr Abergwaun
On 22 February 1797, the locals in the area around Fishguard and the Pencaer Peninsula remarked that for a day in winter it was an uncommonly fine and warm morning. Little did they know that this day would be marked down in the history books less…