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The Irish Sea connects the southwest of Wales with the east of the Republic of Ireland. It not only connects the two countries but five ports and their various communities. The Ports, Past and Present project, run by the University College Cork, Aberystwyth University, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and Wexford County Council, "seeks to enhance engagement among port town communities with their own rich heritage and that of the Irish Sea, and to use that heritage in promoting tourism and deepening a sense of shared identity". Dublin Port, Rosslare Harbour, Holyhead, Fishguard, and Pembroke Dock and their communities on either side of the sea are being promoted through over 200 online heritage stories, documentary films, creative commissions, community-focused events, as well as tourism networks, including a free heritage tourism training, and an accompanying app. "There has been a huge amount of activity during 2022. We have been exhibiting the work in each of our ports, the show is currently in Holyhead until January 2023, and we have also made a booklet, which is an anthology of the work created," Martin Crampin of the University of Wales Center for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies told P&H. |