Six Nations 2026: Ireland v Wales – Visitors Aim to Show They Are No Joke in Dublin
Ireland vs Wales in Six Nations 2026: Can visitors silence doubters in Dublin? 🚀 #SixNations #IrelandWales.
A shared heritage - #StBrigidsDay - St. Brigid's Cross & St. Ffraid's Church at #Trearddur Bay #SundayMorning #IrelandWales #Anglesey #HolyIsland #HighCross #YnysMôn #Wales #Cymru #Ireland #Imbolc #Spring
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Yes! Audience agrees that #MenaiBridge was a success during very enjoyable and convincing performance by John Cole, Menai Heritage & #Countryfile star! #Anglesey #engineering #YnysMôn #transport #IrelandWales
#MenaiBridge200 @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @angleseyhistory.bsky.social
Herring gull waiting beside ferry check-in facilities.
There is always someone waiting for the ferry at #Holyhead
#IrelandWales #IrishSea #migration #WelshBirding #travel #passport #Anglesey
A shared heritage - The opening of the Menai Bridge was big news in #Ireland - Sir Henry Parnell and some "gentlemen" came on the ferry to #Holyhead for the opening of the "stupendous work". #IrelandWales #MenaiBridge #IrishSea #engineering #transport #Wales 🚢 #Anglesey #YnysMôn #FlashbackFriday
In #Ireland, 1 February marks the first day of spring and the celebration of Lá Fhéile Bríde, St Brigid’s Day — a time traditionally associated with renewal, hope and new beginnings.
Here you go!
#Springtime #diversity #Imbolc #heritage #nature #StBrigidsDay #IrelandWales
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A shared heritage - Lawrence of Arabia, illegitimate son of Sir Thomas Chapman, an Anglo-Irish landowner #Wetmeath #Ireland and Sarah Lawrence (née Junner), a governess in the employ of Chapman. #Ireland #Wales #Empire #IrelandWales
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"What #Wales did in 2015, #Ireland must do in 2025."
#futuregenerations #climate #IrelandWales
Small white church perched on island in the sea.
A shared #heritage - St. Cwyfan's the 12thC church in the sea dedicated to Irish St. Kevin of #Glendalough #Wicklow ; separated from land by coastal erosion #Anglesey #YnysMôn #Aberffraw #Llangwyfan #IrelandWales #Ireland #Wales #history
A shared heritage - Mary MacSwiney, a very brave and remarkable Irish woman who visited prisoners in #Frongoch and stood her ground in a railway carriage in #Holyhead trying to protect the body of her brother who had died on hunger strike #IrelandWales #Revolution #Empire #Ireland #Wales #Anglesey
Line drawing of head and shoulders with hat, glasses and beard.
James Joyce by Augustus John
#BloomsDay #IrelandWales 🎨 #Ireland #Wales
1923 Aerial photograph of Holyhead Port with ferries to Ireland docked behind Railway Hotel.
“Mailboat. Near Holyhead by now.”
From #Ulysses, remembering a departed acquaintance.
#MrBloom was considered a landlubber because he longest sea voyage was to #Holyhead.
#BloomsDay #Ireland #Wales #IrishSea #IrelandWales #literature #Anglesey #YnysMôn #JamesJoyce
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Ynys Môn & #Ireland - "Connected by the Irish Sea, our rich and deep shared #history and #heritage has woven us tightly together."
#IrelandWales #Wales #IrishSea #WorldOceanDay #WorldOceansDay #Nature #biodiversity #envhist
@nation.cymru @antiquariansmon.bsky.social
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A shared #heritage - It will be interesting to see how the impact of the policies of PM Lloyd-George on #Ireland are presented - great opportunity for academic reanalysis and collaboration. #Ireland #Wales #IrelandWales #history #research #partnerships #museums #Empire #independence
A living heritage - interesting insights into the direction of #heritage agenda in #Ireland with potential for international collaboration
@heritagecouncil.ie #research #climatechange #biodiversity #nature #IrelandWales #culture
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#Evidence & #policy; #academia & #government - “We need more people who are able to have at least one foot in both of those worlds in order to be able to fertilise between the two."
Mark Drakeford
#IrelandWales #Interreg #Europe #research #Erasmus
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A shared heritage - #Antarctic explorers Irishman Tom Crean and Welshman Edgar Evans were friends but sadly we can only imagine what might have been their conversations about #Ireland and #Wales
#Polar #exploration #Empire #Scott #IrelandWales #SouthPole #Antarctica
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For @ucdarchives.bsky.social - an historic #IrelandWales ecological connection
View along lakeshore with large limestone boulder in foreground
A shared heritage - the natural history of our Atlantic islands - Cinclidotus fontinaloides zone of Irish #turlough 📸 by Mary Gillham, Welsh naturalist who loved #Ireland
#IrelandWales
#StPatricksDay #Wales #nature
#womeninscience #envhist #ecology
We rise together - On #StPatricksDay it will be good to feel a part of #GlobalIreland - although some may say I did not get very far! ☘️
#Ireland #Wales #IrelandWales #Diaspora #migration
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Amazing to think that historic Irish #cattle trade may be having #nature #conservation benefits on Anglesey today!
Article from the recent @antiquariansmon.bsky.social Day School exploring #Ireland #Anglesey connections by James Robertson.
#IrelandWales #envhist
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There is little doubt that sailing between South Stack and The Skerries Lighthouses in the dark on the approach to #Holyhead is engraved in the memories of generations of Irish migrants. #IrishInWales #Wales #IrishSea #IrelandWales #migration ☘️
Book cover showing stately home on fire
For #IrelandReads Day - Burning the Big House by Terence Dooley - for a sensitive and nuanced interpretation of the Anglo-Irish experience - great to have author as @ystadaucymru.bsky.social guest lecturer @bangoruniversity.bsky.social in 2024 #IrelandWales #heritage #research #WW1 #Revolution 📚
A shared heritage- "I am a very rich woman to be able to call both islands home."
#IrelandWales #Anglesey #YnysMôn #Ireland #Wales ☘️ 🇮🇪
Marged Haycock
A shared heritage- Marged Haycock @gwenddolen.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social introduces us to Cecile O'Rahilly, red-headed Kerry woman, UCD graduate, brilliant linguist and #IrelandWales academic. #IrishInWales #language @antiquariansmon.bsky.social
A shared heritage - Exciting day ahead exploring connections through time between #Anglesey & #Ireland @antiquariansmon.bsky.social #IrishSea #Viking #Transport #infrastructure #MenaiBridge #Academia #language #envhist #IrishinWales #IrelandWales
A shared heritage - The Ladies of Hengwrt: Frances Power Cobbe (born Newbridge #Ireland) shared her life with Mary Charlotte Lloyd (born Denbighshire #Wales) #Ireland #Wales #LGBTQ+ #IrelandWales
A shared heritage - St. Brigid's Cross & St. Ffraid's Church at #Trearddur Bay #SundayMorning #StBrigidsDay #IrelandWales #Anglesey #HolyIsland #HighCross #YnysMôn #Wales #Cymru #Ireland
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Low sun catching snowdrops with female statue in background.
After frozen ground, a loosening,
After silence, birdsong, a beginning,
Earth's skin pricks with growth.
Spring by Gillian Clarke.
#StBrigidsDay in #Wales
#IrelandWales #migration #snowdrops #Spring #imbolc