Holyhead
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Sep 13, 2026
Kirsten WeberNARRATOR
Bolts that cannot be dodged strike us kindliest from the blue.
Kirsten WeberNARRATOR
And so let me be thankful that my sole emotion as I entered an empty compartment at Holyhead was that craving for sleep which, after midnight, overwhelms every traveler, especially the Saxon traveler from tumultuous and quick-witted little Dublin.
Kirsten WeberNARRATOR
Mechanically, comfortably, as I sank into a corner, I rolled my rug round me, laid my feet against the opposite cushions, twitched up my coat collar above my ears, twitched down my cap over my eyes.
Kirsten WeberNARRATOR
It was not the jerk of the starting train that half awoke me, but the consciousness that someone had flung himself into the compartment when the train was already in motion.
David McWilliamsGUEST
So one of the more interesting stories about James Joyce is that in 1909, James Joyce comes back to Ireland for the last time.
David McWilliamsGUEST
He's only 28 years old, so he never comes back to Ireland, and he comes back to Ireland in October of 1909, and he gets what we used to call the mail boat from Holyhead to Dún Laoghaire.
David McWilliamsGUEST
I don't know if any of you have suffered on the mail boat over many, many years.
David McWilliamsGUEST
Uh, it can be a very choppy...
CookieHOST
But very good evening.
CookieHOST
Checking in already to John in Chorley, Chris in Holyhead, Alan Padgham, Zoe and Mike in Hitchin, Sergio and Boy in Zeldzak.
CookieHOST
Very good afternoon to Rick in Toronto.
CookieHOST
John in Larne.
Louise BrookwellGUEST
So it's, like, really varied.
Louise BrookwellGUEST
It's a, it's a lot more kind of undulating and, and, you know, there's Holyhead Mountain at the end.
Louise BrookwellGUEST
Like, you know, it is a mountain, but it's only, you know, a very small mountain, and it is quite technical.
Louise BrookwellGUEST
There's lots of scrambling.
SamHOST
Mm-hmm.
Louise BrookwellGUEST
Um, yeah, definitely.
Louise BrookwellGUEST
Um, but yeah, the only other point that I really wanted to quit was at Holyhead Mountain, um, which was, you know, I had nine miles left to go.
Louise BrookwellGUEST
Um, um, I just couldn't go down [laughs] down, and I knew it was just a very big down.
Phil CasperNARRATOR
Its soft, warm winds bathe the hills with life, and the great sweep of the big Atlantic waves into the river mouths help our commerce.
Phil CasperNARRATOR
Holyhead, Milford, Haven, Swansea, Newport, Barry, and Cardiff, now one of the chief ports of the world, can welcome the largest vessels afloat.
Phil CasperNARRATOR
The herring is plentiful on the west coast, and trout and salmon in the rivers.
Phil CasperNARRATOR
End of chapter 1.
Tim MuntonGUEST
I'd got a car, so I said, "Can I have an extra one for the weekend?" So we had two big Mitsubishi long wheelbase 4x4s, and there eight of us drove over.
Tim MuntonGUEST
We all met at my house at about half four in the morning in Staffordshire, and we went over to Holyhead and went over on the ferry.
Tim MuntonGUEST
We played golf at one o'clock somewhere just outside Dublin, then we drove over to Naas.
Tim MuntonGUEST
I learnt about drinking vodka Red Bull, 'cause I was nearly falling asleep at half 10, 11 o'clock on my own stag do.
Frank McDonaldGUEST
I used to think that they were just two pieces of redundant industrial infrastructure, really.
Frank McDonaldGUEST
And then I was coming back on the Irish Ferries Ulysses from Holyhead, you know, a few years ago.
Frank McDonaldGUEST
And we upgraded ourselves to club class or whatever you call it.
Frank McDonaldGUEST
And we were able to sit right at the front of the ship, you know, overlooking everything in front of us.
JonathanHOST
Well he did as well, that's what triggered it.
JonathanHOST
So coming out of Ireland, he'd come to Holyhead and then driven through England, was stopped and received a prohibition for having been in Ireland with the wrong generation of tachograph, which I found quite interesting.
Gordon HumphreysGUEST
Well that's the second one like that and that's also then led to the operator having a full investigation on them as well.
JonathanHOST
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David WomersleyGUEST
So there's a very interesting entry in a small notebook that he wrote when he was in transit back to Dublin.
David WomersleyGUEST
He was becalmed at Holyhead and he waited a long day.
David WomersleyGUEST
He just left Pope and it seems that Swift gave the hint for the Dunsiad to Pope.
David WomersleyGUEST
uh but he knew that pope was going to write a poem in which the dunces were named rather than concealed and he in his in this entry says you know this is a mistake you know you mustn't name these people because this will give them the kind of uh exposure and notoriety that they crave um so His position about naming or not naming was flexible and he fluctuated, as I said.
David WomersleyGUEST
So, there's a very interesting entry in a small notebook that he wrote when he was in transit back to Dublin.
David WomersleyGUEST
He was becalmed at Holyhead and he wrote a long note.
David WomersleyGUEST
He just left Pope and it seems that Swift gave the hint for the Dunsiad to Pope.
David WomersleyGUEST
uh but he knew that pope was going to write a poem in which the dunces were named rather than um concealed uh and he in his in this entry says you know this is a mistake you know you mustn't name these people because this will give them the kind of uh exposure and notoriety that they crave um so he is his position about naming or not naming was flexible and he fluctuated as I said.
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