James Louis Smith

Holyhead writer and performer, Gillian Brownson combines art, poetry, beachcombing and creative storytelling at the coast in this piece suitable for children between the ages of 5 and 8.

Holyhead writer and performer, Gillian Brownson, performs the heroic actions and achievements of one of RMS Leinster’s few female survivors, Mary Coffey.

Holyhead writer and performer Gillian Brownson recites a poem from the perspective of Mynydd Twr or Holyhead Mountain, exploring the deep slow time of a mountain and its view of the world about.

Holyhead writer and performer Gillian Brownson recites a poem focused on the mingled stories of the Dutch Poniard, a dagger held at the Holyhead Maritime Museum, and a Holyhead woman by the name of Evelyn Hughes who had cherished the Poniard.

Robert Jakes shares his work in progress on mapping the Irish Sea.

The postcards for Dublin Port focus on trade and the movement of goods. I took a boat trip on the Liffey, viewing the port from the sea, after which I selected two images to work with.

Paper presentation for the Digital Mapping session at DRHA 2021 in Berlin: 'Digital Matters: Designing/Performing Agency in the Anthropocene'.

Deep Mapping and the Blue Humanities

UISCE DŴR WATER: Chwedlau o Abergwaun i Ddulyn | Folk Tales from Fishguard to Dublin

Seeking out the European white-fronted goose in Wexford.

UISCE DŴR WATER II: Chwedlau o Abergwaun i Ddulyn | Folk Tales from Fishguard to Dublin

My intention for this project is to work on a timeline flotilla of vessels, to explore the movement of people across the Irish Sea to and from the port of Caergybi (Holyhead) and the port of Dublin, highlighting chosen times and narratives throughout history.

Curraghs and Coracles of the Wandering Saints

The Vikings

Ships and slavery

The Industrial Age

Holyhead and War

Moving On

A call out for help making a community boat.

A Poem

This internationally important bird isle offers spectacular wildlife - all in black and white.

Wexford Wildfowl Reserve hosts about two-thirds of Ireland’s approximately 12,000 Greenland White-fronted Geese, which make up half the world population.

Holyhead writer and performer Gillian Brownson presents a poem about Billy-in-the-Bowl and the woman who fought for him.

A Play for Voices

Welcome to our audio theatrical experience! This piece takes you on an adventure, discovering Dublin Docklands and the lives that shape it.

James Smith introduces his use of PubPub as an interfacing tool for a broad-ranging creative project, featuring port communities in the British Isles and the artists who define them.

A film for the Ports, Past and Present project

The Mermaid’s Purse & Other Stories in Rhyme is a small collection written and illustrated especially for the children of the town, to celebrate their home and their world.

Photographs taken during the Creative Connections exhibition. August 2022 in the Liffey Corner Room, CHQ, Dublin.

Marged Pendrell's work on display in exhibition spaces across the Irish Sea

These writings were the result of various journeys made in and between Wales and Ireland as part of a commission for the European-funded project Ports, Past and Present.

Walking through different places is at the core of Kathy D'Arcy's creative practice as a writer, but during the Covid pandemic she instead had to rely on virtual ‘walks’ taken with local volunteers.

The photographic series Jacob’s Ladder aims to capture the past movement of working people in the rural port of Fishguard and Goodwick, West Wales.

A poem accompanying the photo series by Zillah Bowes

The photographic series All the Sea View Sheds explores the constancy of outdoor domestic structures in Harbour Village above Fishguard Harbour, West Wales.

A Cloud of Voices participant

A Cloud of Voices participant

In her Cloud of Voices, poet Kathy D'Arcy explores pathways and the stories that evolve along them.

A Cloud of Voices participant

A Cloud of Voices participant

A Cloud of Voices participant

A Cloud of Voices participant

A new mural depicting the Irish Sea and coasts from Dublin to Holyhead

A Cloud of Voices participant

An agit-prop newspaper created by the urban gulls of Dublin as part of their campaign to educate and challenge the negative views of gulls.

In this first discussion session for the Deep Maps: Blue Humanities project, we discuss writing and publishing with Markdown and fragmentary texts

In this post for the Deep Maps: Blue Humanities pilot project, we outline our experimental technical process for open peer review using GitHub