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- Alcock and Brown
- Annaghdown
- Aran Islands
- Ardrahan
- Athenry
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- Ballinasloe
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- Ballymacward
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- Connacht
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- Craughwell
- Derrygimla bog
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Ahascragh
Ahascragh (Irish: Áth Eascrach, meaning "Ford of the Esker") is a village in east Galway, Ireland. It is located 11 km (7 mi) (7 mi) north-west of Ballinasloe on the Ahascragh/Bunowen River, a tributary of the River Suck. The R358 regional road passes through the village.
The Patron saint of the village is Saint Cuan. His death is recorded in the Annals of the Four Masters in 788 A.D. The Annals also mention the battle of Ahascragh in 1307 between the English forces and O'Kelly Chieftains.
Ahascragh had two Anglo-Irish seats of residence, located in Castlegar and Clonbrock, with respective period houses. In Castlegar sat the Mahon family. The Mahons were settled at Castlegar from the late 17th century. They intermarried on a number of occasions with members of the Browne family of Westport. In 1819 the head of the family became a baronet. In the 1830s, at the time of the first Ordnance Survey, Ross Mahon was the proprietor of several townlands in the parish of Ahascragh. The Mahon estate was one of the principal lessors in the parish of Grange, barony of Loughrea at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Mr. Charles Filgate acted as agent for this property. The Mahons also held extensive lands in the baronies of Clonmacnowen and Killian. In the 1870s the Castlegar estate amounted to over 32 km2 (8,000 acres) in county Galway as well as over 3.2 km2 (800 acres) in the parish of Termonbarry, barony of Ballintober North, county Roscommon. In 1906 Sir William Mahon held over 4.9 km2 (1,200 acres) of untenanted land in the Ahascragh area. MacLochlainn writes that most of the estate was sold to the Land Commission in 1977. In 1979 the house was sold by the Mahons to John Horan, who advertised the house for sale again in 1988. There is still a house at this site.
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Annaghdown
Annaghdown is a parish in County Galway, Ireland. It takes its name from Eanach Dhúin, Irish for "the marsh of the fort". The village lies around Annaghdown Bay, an inlet of Lough Corrib. The parish is situated in the Archdiocese of Tuam.
The name Eanach Dhúin signifies the 'marsh of the Dún or fort.' The word Dún is one of the most common elements denoting secular settlement in early placenames. It usually refers to an enclosed settlement or ringfort and in the early historical period it appears to designate the principal dwelling of the local king or chieftain. The placename ... probably referred to the marshlands attached to the fort of the chieftain of Maigh Seola, which would have been granted as a site for a church.
Little is known of the early history of Annaghdown, which does not appear in the annals until the twelfth century. Two historical sources state it was granted to St. Brendan of Clonfert by King Áed mac Echach of Connacht. However, some sources believe that as Áed's territory of Uí Bhriúin Aoi lay in County Roscommon, it was not within his power to grant the land of another chieftain so distant from him.
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Aran Islands
The Aran Islands (Irish: Oileáin Árann — Aran Islands pronunciation: [ˈɪlɑːn ˈɑːrənʲ]) or The Arans (na hÁrainneacha — [nə ˈhɑːrənʲəxə]) are a group of three islands located at the mouth of Galway Bay, on the west coast of Ireland. They constitute the barony of Aran in County Galway, Ireland. From west to east they are: Inishmore (Árainn Mhór/Inis Mór — [ˈɑːrənʲ woːr] or [ˈɪnɪɕ woːr ˈɑːrənʲ]), the largest; Inishmaan (Inis Meáin/Inis Meadhóin — [ˈɪnɪɕ mʲɑːn]), the second-largest; and Inisheer (Inis Thiar/Inis Oírr/Inis Oirthir — [ˈɪnɪɕ iːr] or [ˈɪnɪɕ siːr]), the smallest. Irish is the main spoken language on all three islands, and is the language used naming the islands and their villages and townlands.
The approaches to the bay between the Aran Islands and the mainland are as follows:
The islands' geology is mainly karst limestone and is thus closely related to The Burren in Co. Clare (to the east), not the granites of Connemara to the north. This is most obvious in the construction of the walls around the fields.
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Ardrahan
Ardrahan (Irish: Ard Raithin, meaning "high ringfort") is a village in County Galway, Ireland.
Richard de Brugo conquered Galway in 1236, and granted the land to Maurice Fitzgerald who built the castle whose ruins still stand today. The churchyard wall contains the remains of a round tower, which suggests that a monastic community may have existed on the site before the castle was built.
The most noteworthy attraction in Ardrahan is Tullira Castle, once owned by playwright and independence activist Edward Martyn. Tullira Castle is private property.
Ardrahan is on the N18 road.
Ardrahan railway station opened on 15 September 1869, was closed to passenger traffic on 5 April 1976 and finally closed on 11 June 1983. A new railway station has opened as part of phase one of the reopening of the Western Rail Corridor between Ennis and Athenry.
There are three schools in Ardrahan: Labane N.S, Ballyglass N.S and Killternan N.S. All three have recently been renovated.
Ardahan hurling club won its first Galway Senior Hurling Club Championship title in 1894 and since then has won it on 11 occasions, having contested 18 County Finals in its history. It is second on the role of honour to Castlegar who have won 16 titles. The last title was won after a replay in 1978, against rival neighbours Ballindereen.
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Athenry
Athenry (
/æθənˈraɪ/;Irish: Baile Átha an Rí, meaning "Ford of the King") is a town in County Galway, Ireland. It lies 25 kilometres (16 mi) east of Galway city, and one of the attractions of the town is its medieval castle. The town is also well known by virtue of the song "The Fields of Athenry".
Its name derives from the ford ('Áth') crossing the river Clarin just east of the settlement. Because three kingdoms met at that point, it was called 'Áth na Ríogh', or 'the Ford of the Kings'. On some medieval maps of English origin the town is called Kingstown. The kingdoms were Hy-Many to the north-east, east and south-east; Aidhne to the south and south-west; Maigh Seola to the west and north-west. Up to around 1000 it was included in Uí Briúin Seóla. In the mid-11th century it was part of the trícha cét of Clann Taidg.
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Attymon halt
Attymon railway station (Irish: Stáisiún Áth Tíomáin) serves the townland of Attymon in County Galway. It is the smallest station on the Dublin-Galway line consisting of a single platform with no signalling system or waiting room. The building at the station is boarded up and used as a store for line maintenance crew. The station used to link the Dublin-Galway line with a branch line to Loughrea but this has been removed, the line having closed in 1975. A former railway preservation group called Westrail had hoped to reopen the line as a tourist line, but failed to do so.
The station once had three platforms in operation. A footbridge over the Galway-Dublin track joining two of the platforms is now in use in one of Dublin city's commuter railway stations. On a weekday, four trains serve Attymon station: an early morning train to Galway at 08:02, a train to Galway at 09:43, a train to Dublin Heuston at 18:27 and a train to Athlone at 22:35. On Sundays, services include a 10:45am train to Galway, a 13:27 train to Dublin Heuston and a 18:27 train to Dublin Heuston.
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Ballinasloe
Ballinasloe (Irish: Béal Átha na Sluaighe, meaning "ford mouth of the hosts") is a town in the easternmost part of County Galway in Ireland.
The town developed as a crossing point on the River Suck, a tributary of the Shannon. The Irish placename — meaning the mouth of the ford of the crowds — reflects this purpose. The latter part of the name suggests the town has been a meeting place since ancient times. The patron saint of Ballinasloe is Saint Grellan, whom tradition believes built the first church in the area at Kilcloony. A local housing estate, a GAA club, the branch of Conradh na Gaeilge, and formerly a school are named after him.
Every October, Ballinasloe is host to the ancient annual October Fair. Chiefly agricultural in the past, it is now focused on the horse. The Ballinasloe Fair is one of the oldest horse fairs in Europe; bathed in history it dates back to the 18th century. Today the ever popular fair is still held, along with a festival that attracts up to 100,000 visitors from all over the world. The town also boasts a successful summer festival called An tSúca Fiain.
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Ballinderreen
Ballinderreen (Irish: Baile an Doirín, meaning "townland of the little oak grove") is a village located on the N67 route between Kilcolgan and Kinvara in south County Galway, in Ireland.
Ballinderreen village is approximately 22 km south of Galway City and is a part of the townland of Ballinderreen. Ballinderreen is both the name of the catholic diocesan parish of Galway and the townland where the village is situated. It takes its name from oak trees in the village. The Irish name of the village, Baile an Doirín, means town of the little derry or little oakwood, suggesting the area may once have been more heavily forested with oak trees. It contains the early Christian settlement of Surney of Drumacoo. It had a population of 997 under the 2006 census (under Drumacoo). This represents an increase of 15% on the 2002 figure [1]. The Ballinderreen colours are two vertical stripes of green and white. The parish of Ballinderreen covers a larger area taking in part of the village of Kilcolgan on the N18 and borders Clarinbridge, Kinvara and Ardrahan.
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Ballyconneely
Ballyconneely (Irish: Baile Conaola, meaning "Conneelys' village") is a small ribbon development in west Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.
Settlements are spread out north on the road to Clifden and south on the road to Roundstone. Every July, the Ballyconneely pony show attracts people from the surrounding county to exhibit livestock and enjoy the travelling funfair.
This peninsula, jutting into the Atlantic Ocean between Clifden to the north and Roundstone to the south, is a quiet rural area. Its name is based on the old civil parish of Ballindoon, which in turn was named from the old fort or cashel on Doon Hill.
The area is surrounded by beaches: the Coral Strand at Derrygimla; west and north to Knock, Mannin, Dunloughan and Truska; and east and south from Keeraunmore, Aillebrack, and Ballyconneely Bay to Calla, Dolan and Murvey. Some of these bathing spots provide bases for shore fishermen.
Ballyconneely has three historic associations: In 1854, the first salmon farming operation in the United Kingdom was carried out on the Dohulla Fishery. In 1919, the first transatlantic flight by Alcock and Brown ended two miles away in Derrygimla Bog, an unsuitable landing place which damaged the aircraft. The crash landing was near the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Station built in 1905, which was used to send the first transatlantic wireless message, to Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, in 1907.
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Ballygar
Ballygar (Irish: Béal Átha Ghártha) is a town in County Galway, Ireland. It is 11.7 km from Roscommon town.
The name Ballygar, historically Beallagarr, comes from Irish: Béal Átha Ghártha. The town has been a meeting point and trading centre throughout the centuries, and was recorded as a townland and farm as far back as 1585.
Although the townland and farm are recorded as far back as 1585, it was not until the 1820s that it became a centre of population. On the 6th August 1585 the Chieftains and Landowners of Galway and Roscommon were summoned to a meeting with the Lord Deputy, Sir John Perrot, in Galway City. The object of the meeting was to get the landowners and chieftains to surrender their lands to Elizabeth I and then receive them back from the Crown at a rent of one penny an acre. The landowners accepted the terms, and one of the signatories to that document of surrender was Francis Shane, gent, of Ballygar, and possibly the proprietor of Ballygar Castle at the time.
The next mention of Ballygar is in the book of Survey Distribution; this shows out the Earl of St Albans as being the beneficial owner of the land of Bealagara in Killeroran Parish in 1641. He was dispossessed of this land and Ballygar Castle. It was subsequently granted to the Earl of Clanricarde. A garrison was stationed in Ballygar Castle during the rebellion of the 1640s. Ballygar Castle seems to have disappeared from the scene in the early 18th century. A document, dated 1704, shows the Clanricarde family as having leased Ballygar Farm plus parts of Drinaun and Killeroran, 800 acres (3.2 km2) in all, to Edward Donnellan of Streamstown, Co Westmeath, for two lives i.e. sixty two years at a rent of two shillings per acre per year. In 1820, a toll market was established near the main entrance to Castle Kelly by Denis Henry Kelly who owned 13,500 acres (55 km2) of the surrounding countryside.
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Ballymacward
Ballymacward (Irish: Baile Mhic an Bháird) is a village in County Galway, Ireland, on the R359 regional road between the main road and rail networks which traverse east-west, 10 miles from Ballinasloe and approximately 30 miles from Galway City. It was once part of the kingdom of the Soghain of Connacht.
It lies 4 km north of Woodlawn railway station.
Coordinates: 53°23′N 8°29′W / 53.383°N 8.483°W / 53.383; -8.483
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Ballymoe
Ballymoe (historically Bellamoe, from Irish: Béal Átha Mó, meaning "ford-mouth of Mó") is a village in County Galway, Ireland. Ballymoe is situated on the western side of the River Suck that separates counties Galway and Roscommon. The N60 national secondary road meets the R360 regional road in the centre of the village.
The name Béal Átha Mó is derived from a fort which was built by Meabh of Connacht, under the order of Mogh.[citation needed] The fort and village would later become known as Átha Mogh Mór and Béal Átha Mogh. The town is now the centre of a small rural area involved in scale mixed farming. Raised bogs, forts and a mass rock from penal times are features of Ballymoe today.
Ballymoe railway station opened on 1 March 1861 and closed on 17 June 1963.
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Barna
Bearna (anglicized as Barna) is a Gaeltacht village west of Galway city in County Galway, Ireland, on the R336 regional road. Once a satellite of Galway city, the village is now rapidly becoming one of its suburbs. Officially the village is regarded as Irish speaking and is therefore a constituent part of the regions of Ireland that make up the Gaeltacht. However, because of its absorption into the city, it has recently become a mainly English speaking village.[citation needed] Nonetheless, Irish is still the main language of its western and northern hinterland and the village has now effectively become the gateway to the largest Irish speaking region in the country, Connemara.[citation needed]
To try to control the major development which has been undertaken in recent years, a very strongly supported local action group has been set up (Pobal Bhearna). In 1976 a community development group called Comharchumann Bearna Teo was formed after five local men put up the purchase money for 2 acres (8,100 m2) at Troscaigh Thiar to be used for community purposes and has succeeded in developing several recreational facilities.
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Barnaderg
Barnaderg (Irish: Bearna Dhearg, meaning "red gap") is a village northeast of Tuam in eastern County Galway, Ireland.
Barnaderg Castle was a 16th century stronghold of the O'Kelly clan.
In June 2008, a new €1.5m extension was opened at Barnaderg National School, which has 87 pupils. The extension provides a new classroom, a general purpose room, a library, a learning support room, a resource room, a staff room and an office and store rooms. Refurbishment of the existing building and extensive on site works were also carried out.
Coordinates: 53°29′N 8°43′W / 53.483°N 8.717°W / 53.483; -8.717
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Bealadangan
Béal an Daingin or Béal a' Daingin (anglicized as Bealadangan) is a small Gaeltacht village in the heart of Connemara (Conamara), County Galway, Ireland. The main language is Irish, and all but a few of the elderly population also speak English. There is a pub, a post office and an elementary school (Toureen) a couple of miles from the village.
This area is rich in tradition. Many of the residents continue to cut turf (peat) for use in heating their homes during the long winter months. Sean Nós singing is still performed locally, and is rarely heard outside the area. Raidió na Gaeltachta is the local Irish-language radio station and many local singers and musicians can be heard through their website.
The name derives from the Irish béal an daingin meaning the mouth of the secure place.
Other nearby villages are Leitir Móir and An Cheathrú Rua.
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Carnmore
Carnmore (Irish: An Carn Mór) is located at the southern end of the parish of Claregalway, approximately 8 miles (13 km) east of Galway city in County Galway, Ireland. Carnmore lies within the Gaeltacht although the vast majority of residents there use English as their first language. The area is most widely known for being the location of Galway Airport and also for its Senior Hurling team.
Of archaeological interest in the area there is a beautiful Souterrain which was discovered a few years ago - it had two or three chambers and a creep entrance to each chamber which were well built and about 7-foot (2.1 m) high. It was filled in because it was close to the foundation of a dwelling house. There is also a Lisheen in Carnmore where mostly children are buried but some adults too. There are also a few Dolmen type burial sites in the area. In Claregalway there is the Franciscan Friary whose walls and tower are in good condition. There are the remains of five castles in the parish, most of them in ruins - Claregalway, Cloghmoyle, Lydican, Lissarulla and Kiltrogue.
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Carraroe
Carraroe (Irish: An Cheathrú Rua, its official name) is a village in County Galway, Ireland. The village is within the Irish-speaking region (Gaeltacht) of Connemara, and is famous for its traditional fishing boats known as Galway Hookers. Its population is widely dispersed over Carraroe peninsula between Greatman's Bay (Cuan an Fhir Mhóir) and Casla Bay (Cuan Chasla). Carraroe has an unusual 'coral' beach, Trá an Dóilín, a biogenic gravel beach actually made of coralline algae known as "maerl".
It is served by Bus Éireann route 424 from Galway.
Carraroe has two hotels, Ostan an Doilin and Ostan An Cheathrú Rua. The public houses include Realt na Maidine (An Realt), Tigh 'N Tailliura, and An Cistin (Shea's).
Galway Hookers are a distinctive form of native Irish boat, and Carraroe is today probably the single most important centre for these boats. Every August bank holiday, Carraroe hosts Féile an Dóilín, the largest Galway hooker festival in Ireland, and one of the largest maritime festivals in the country. The 2006 Féile an Dóilín, which is named after the area's unique "coral strand", was the largest gathering of Galway hookers in the history of Galway hooker regattas.[citation needed] The main boats are the larger Báid Mhóra (big boats) and Leathbháid (half-boats), which in earlier times were used for hauling turf from the peat bogs in Connemara to the Aran Islands and the Burren of County Clare, where peat is absent. The smaller boats are the Gleoiteoga, which were traditionally used for fishing.These boats can be found in the Caladh Thadhg area in Carraroe,which is the main pier in Carraroe.From this pier you will get breathtaking views of the Twelve Bens mountains.
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Castleblakeney
Castleblakeney or Castleblakeny, historically Gallagh (Irish: Gallach), is a village in County Galway, Ireland. It is at the crossroads of the R359 and R339 regional roads, 5km south of the town of Mountbellew.
Coordinates: 53°26′N 8°29′W / 53.433°N 8.483°W / 53.433; -8.483
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Claregalway
Baile Chláir or Baile Chláir na Gaillimhe (anglicized Claregalway) is a Gaeltachtvillage about 10 km north of Galway in County Galway, Ireland. Claregalway was founded on the banks of the River Clare, hence the derivation of its name: Baile Chláir na Gaillimhe meaning "town on the Clare, in Galway". Claregalway lies within the Gaeltacht and traditionally most of the locals would have only spoken English as a second language. An influx of new residents over the last 30 years has meant that most residents now rarely, if ever, speak Irish. The village sits at the junction of the busy N17 and N18 national primary routes and over 27,000 vehicles pass through the village everyday.
This village has an ancient heritage stretching back over a thousand years. It has many features of historical interest but two of the largest ones on the banks of the river include the Claregalway Friary, founded in mid-13th century, and a Norman watchtower (small castle) completed in the 16th century. This watchtower is currently being refurbished for use as a residence. During 2001, a restoration of an old bridge over the old course of the River Clare was completed. These nine stone arches are above the level of the current road.
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Cleggan
Cleggan (Irish: An Cloigeann meaning head) is a picturesque fishing village in County Galway, Ireland. The village lies 10 km (7 mi) northwest of Clifden and is situated at the head of Cleggan Bay.
A focal point of the village is the pier, built by Alexander Nimmo in 1822 and extended in 1908. Ferries leave the pier daily for Inishbofin (Galway), and there is also a ferry to Inishturk.
An Cloigeann means head or skull, apparently referring to the coastal headland. Legend, however, provides a different origin of the name. St. Ceannanach is said to have been beheaded by a pagan chief. Lore has it that the chief then picked up his head and took it to the Holy Well in Clooncree where he washed it before lying down to die. At the top of Cleggan head, which gives a commanding view of the harbour, is the remains of a watchtower constructed during the Napoleonic wars.
In 1927, in what became known as the Cleggan Disaster, 25 fishermen from the local area drowned during a great gale which arose without warning while they were mackerel fishing in the bay. The nearby village of Rossadilisk lost sixteen men and was subsequently abandoned. Nine men from Inishbofin and twenty men from County Mayo were also lost. Due to the death of so many breadwinners, the area was devastated. The disaster and the devastation visited on the local families made international news and funds were raised from as far away as the U.K., U.S. and Australia. The disaster is remembered in stories, poems and on stone markers. It was recorded by local Marie Feeney in her book “The Cleggan Bay Disaster”, by TG4 Documentary "The Cleggan Disaster" / "An Bádhadh Mór" directed by Petra Conroy, and remembered in Richard Murphy's poem "The Cleggan Disaster", from his 1963 book "Sailing to an Island".
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Clifden
Clifden (Irish: An Clochán, meaning "bee-hive cell") is a town on the coast of County Galway, Ireland and being Connemara's largest town, it is often referred to as "the Capital of Connemara". It is located on the Owenglen River where it flows into Clifden Bay. The town is linked to Galway city by the N59 and is a popular tourist destination for those touring Connemara.
The town was founded at the start of the 19th century by John D'Arcy (1785–1839) who lived in Clifden Castle (which is now a ruin that can be seen from the Sky Road west of Clifden). The Sky Road in Clifden is one of the best tourist attractions in the entire Connemara region. The circular route is 11 km long and takes you out west from Clifden.
It is the birth place of Jon Riley, Saint Patrick's Battalion's commander, who fought for Mexico in the Mexican-American War the 19th century.
Clifden gained prominence in the early 1900s when Guglielmo Marconi built his first high power transatlantic long wave wireless telegraphy station four miles (6 km) south of the town to minimize the distance to its sister station in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. The first point-to-point fixed wireless service connecting Europe with North America opened for public service with the transmission of 10,000 words on 17 October 1907 and ceased operation on 25 July 1922 after suffering serious damage in the Irish Civil War. Transatlantic wireless service formerly provided by the Clifden station was transferred to the more modern Marconi wireless station near Waunfawr, Wales. At peak times, over 400 people had been employed by the Clifden wireless station, but none more famous than Jack Phillips, who later died as the heroic chief Radio Operator on the Titanic.
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Clonbur
An Fhairche (called Clonbur in English) is a Gaeltacht village in County Galway, Ireland.
The village of Clonbur sits between Lough Corrib and Lough Mask. Two kilometres to the west rises Mount Gable where, according to legend, the hordes of Firbolg gathered on the hilltop before their clash with the Tuatha Dé Danann at the Battle of Moytura. In more recent times this isthmus became known as the Gap of Danger where the "plainsmen" met the men of Joyce and Flaherty country.[citation needed]
Clonbur also contains the ruins of Petersburgh Estate, seat of the Lynch family, one of whose members John Lynch, was a signatory of the American Declaration of Independence.
In the cemetery stands the ruins of Teampall Brendain. The ruin is sited within an ancient oval enclosure known as a Caiseal or Cashel. The western end of the ruin is of early Christian origin and in the trabeated doorway can clearly be seen the inclined jambs so distinctive of that era. This edifice replaced a wooden and less durable structure which was the Navigator's original monastic settlement on the site.
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Connacht
Connacht /ˈkɒnɔːt/ (Irish: Connachta / Cúige Chonnacht [ˈkɔnəxtə]), formerly anglicised as Connaught, is one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the west of Ireland. In Ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths ruled by a "king of over-kings" (in Irish: rí ruirech). Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for administrative and judicial purposes. In later centuries, local government legislation has seen further sub-division of the historic counties. In modern times, clusters of counties have been attributed to certain provinces but these clusters have no legal status. The province itself, while enjoying common usage and forming a strong part of local identity, has no official function for local government purposes. Along with counties from other provinces, it lies in the North-West constituency for elections to the European Parliament.
It consists of the counties of Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo. Its main urban centres are Galway in the south and Sligo in the north. It is the smallest of the four Irish provinces, with a population of 542,039.
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Connemara
Connemara (Irish: Conamara) is a district in the west of Ireland of which the boundaries are not well defined. Some[who?] define it to be the land contained by Killary Harbour, the Maam Valley, Lough Corrib (as far as Moycullen); a line from there to the sea at Barna, and the Atlantic ocean. Others[who?] draw the eastern boundary line from Killary Harbour to Kilkieran Bay in the west of County Galway.
The term Connemara is frequently used to describe all of County Galway west of Lough Corrib; some[who?] argue that this is incorrect. It is also used to describe the Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking areas) of western County Galway; again some[who?] argue that this too is inaccurate as some of these areas are outside of the traditional boundary of Connemara.[citation needed] Some[who?] also argue that it is not correct to say that Connemara's eastern boundary ends around Barna just on the outskirts of Galway City or at Maam Cross.[citation needed]
"Connemara" derives from the tribal name Conmacne Mara, which designated a branch of the Conmacne, an early tribal grouping that had a number of branches located in different parts of Connacht. Since this particular branch of the Conmacne lived by the sea, they became known as the Conmacne Mara. (Sea in Irish is muir, genitive mara, hence "of the sea".) The area in the east of what is now Connemara was called Delbhna Tír Dhá Locha.
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Cornamona
Corr na Móna (anglicized as Cornamona) is a village and townland in County Galway, Ireland. It is part of the Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking region) of North Connemara.
The village lies on the north of Lough Corrib in the middle of the Joyce Country Mountain and Lake Districts. It is a popular site among trout and salmon anglers. and is one of the most scenic areas of Ireland.
The eastern edge of the area comes down to the shores of the Corrib while the western edge borders the scenic upland area of An Mám. The well known Teachta Dála Éamon Ó Cuív lives in Cornamona.
The local secondary school is Gairmscoil Fhecicin Naofa, Corr na Móna.
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Costelloe
Costelloe (Irish: Casla) is a Gaeltacht village between Inverin (Indreabhán) and Carraroe (An Cheathrú Rua) in western County Galway, Ireland. It lies on the R336 road beside Clynagh Bay. Casla is the headquarters of RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta. Casla means "(twisting) creek" or "inlet from the sea" in Irish.
It is served by Bus Éireann route 424 from Galway City.
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County Galway
County Galway (Irish: Contae na Gaillimhe) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the West Region and is also part of the province of Connacht. It is named after the city of Galway. Galway County Council is the local authority for the county. There are several strongly Irish-speaking areas in the west of the county. The population of the county is 250,541 according to the 2011 census.
The first inhabitants in the Galway area arrived over 7000 years ago. Shell middens tell us about the existence of people as early as 5000 BC.
The county originally comprised several kingdoms and territories which predate the formation of the county. They included Aidhne, Uí Maine, Maigh Seóla, Conmhaícne Mara, Soghain and Máenmaige. County Galway came into official existence c. 1569.
A number of inhabited islands are administered by the county; they include Oileáin Árann (Aran Islands) and Inis Bó Fine (Inishbofin).
With the arrival of Christianity many monasteries were built, and written records of events in the area and of its people were kept. These were followed by a number of law-tracts, genealogies, annals and miscellaneous accounts. Extant manuscripts containing references to Galway include:
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Craughwell
Craughwell (historically Creaghmoyle, from Irish: Creachmhaoil) is a village and townland in County Galway, Ireland. The name is also used as a surname, properly Ó Creachmhaoil, though often anglicised as Craughwell and Crockwell. The surname was largely unknown outside of the southeast of County Galway until the end of the 19th century when émigrés established families which still thrive in Newfoundland, Bermuda, Cornwall, Ohio and Berkshire County, Massachusetts, among other places.
The name is composed of two Irish words: creach, meaning in this case "plunder" (as in a herd of cattle), and maol, which is a word for a round hill or mountain, bare of trees. The pioneer of Irish placename studies, Patrick W. Joyce, speculated that the name in Irish was Creamhchoill, meaning "garlic wood". He was obviously unaware of the local spelling and pronunciation but confirmed in a later work that the village was called Creachmhaoil in Irish.
The town currently has three pubs, a Garda station, a pharmacy, a bookies, furniture stores, post office, hairdressers, two service stations, a lawnmower shop, and a pizzeria and fish and chip shop. The village of Creachmhaoil celebrates its connection with the Gaelic poet Anthony Raferty and Anjelica Huston.
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Eyrecourt
Eyrecourt, historically known as Donanaghta (Irish: Dún an Uchta), is a village in County Galway, Ireland. Eyrecourt is on the R356 regional road 12 km west of the Banagher bridge over the River Shannon.
The Eyres after whom the village is named, as well as other places such as Eyre Square in Galway City, were an English family who came over with Cromwell. Their former residence, Eyrecourt Castle (now a ruin), provides the large metal gateway at the eastern end of main street and the 100-acre (0.40 km2) castle lawn beyond. The family were for many years closely associated with the local hunt, the Galway Blazers.
The village stands midway along the Beara Breifne Greenway; an historic Waymarked Way for walking, cycling and heritage first established in 1603. Eyrecourt is served by two public houses, a post office, library, village store, garage and fast food outlet, pharmacy, tractor dealer, medical centre, primary school, numerous small enterprises and the Meelick-Eyrecourt GAA club. In the evenings numerous groups and classes use the Village Hall, for pilates, martial arts, scouting and art classes.[citation needed]
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Galway
Galway (Irish: Gaillimh, pronounced [ˈɡalʲɪvʲ]) or City of Galway (Cathair na Gaillimhe) is a city on the west coast of Ireland. It is located on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay and is surrounded by County Galway. It is the third largest city within the state (after Dublin and Cork), though if the wider urban area is included then it falls into fourth place behind Limerick. The population of Galway city at the 2011 census was 75,529, rising to 76,778 across the entire urban area.
The city takes its name from the Gaillimh river (River Corrib) that formed the western boundary of the earliest settlement, which was called Dún Bhun na Gaillimhe ("Fort at the mouth of the Gaillimh"). The word Gaillimh means "stony" as in "stony river" (the mythical and alternative derivations are given in History of Galway). Historically, the name was written as Gallive, which is closer to the Irish pronunciation.
The city also bears the nickname "City of the Tribes" Irish: Cathair na dTreabh because "fourteen tribes of" merchant families led the city in its Hiberno-Norman period. The term tribes was often a derogatory phrase in Cromwellian times. The merchants would have seen themselves as Irish gentry and loyal to the King. They subsequently adopted the term as a badge of honour and pride in defiance of the town's Cromwellian occupiers.
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Garrafrauns
Garrafrauns (Irish: Na Garfráin) is a village and 202 acre townland in north County Galway, Ireland. The name Garrafrauns is derived from either Garra bhfearán (garden of the wild brambles) or Garbhthráin (rough grassy place). The village consists of a church, school, post office, garage, community centre, and three public houses. Garrafrauns is four miles from Dunmore along the R328 road. Other neighbouring towns and villages are Cloonfad (5 miles), Irishtown (3 miles), Milltown (5 miles), and Tuam (9 miles).
A sandstone, cruciform, gothic design church with a thatched roof and whitewashed interior was built in Garrafrauns village in 1820. A replacement church situated across the road from this original, was completed in 1913 and consecrated by Archbishop Gilmartin of Tuam. The bell tower has since been removed. Garrafrauns lies in the middle of a half parish of Dunmore, and the parish comprises 16 townlands.
Exterior view of old church
Exterior view of St. Patrick's Church
Alter and window
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Glenamaddy
Glenamaddy (Irish: Gleann na Madadh, meaning "valley of the dogs") is a small town in County Galway, Ireland. It lies at the crossroads where the R362 and R364 regional roads intersect.
Glenamaddy is the most important town in the northeastern corner of County Galway. It became the musical capital of Connacht during the 1960s when the Showband craze swept the country. To the east of the town lies Loch Lurgeen, a raised bog. The origins of the Parish (which was originally called Boyounagh) lie in the village of Boyounagh which lies to the North West of Glenamaddy Town.
It has been argued for a long time what the exact meaning, and Irish for Glenamaddy is. Some say it is derived from the Irish Gleann na Madadh, Gleann meaning valley and madhadh from madra meaning dog. This would suggest that the name means Valley of the Dogs. The suggested meaning for this being the shape of the Glenamaddy Turlough as looked at from above.
The other explanation that has been given is that the name comes from Gleann na Maighe Duibhí meaning Valley of the black plain, because of the lake (turlough) in the area which dries up every year leaving a black plain.
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Gort
Gort (Irish: Gort Inse Guaire or An Gort) is a town in south County Galway in the west of Ireland. An Gort is the official Irish name for the town, as defined by the Placenames Commission. In spoken Irish, however, the town is known by its traditional name Gort Inse Guaire. It lies just north of the border with County Clare on the main N18 Galway–Limerick road. Gort is situated in the territory of Uí Fiachrach Aidhne also known as Maigh Aidhne ("the plain of Aidhne"), which is coextensive with the diocese of Kilmacduagh / Cill Mhic Dhuach.
Gort takes its name, Gort Inse Guaire, from gort (a meadow), "inse" (island) and Guaire Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin, the sixth century King of Connacht and patron of St. Colman MacDuagh. During the Middle Ages the chiefs of Cenél Áeda na hEchtge, the O'Shaughnessys (Ó Seachnasaigh, a clan descended from Guaire Aidhneach) had their principal stronghold in Gort, on a site which later became a cavalry barracks. At the end of the seventeenth century the O'Shaughnessy lands were confiscated and granted to Sir Thomas Prendergast, 1st Baronet, whose grandson was John Prendergast Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort. In 1831, the town had a population of 3,627 and 563 houses. The Great Hunger of the mid-1840s devastated the population.
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Goulane
Goulane West or Gowlan West (Irish: An Gabhlán Thiar) is a small village located two miles southeast of Clifden in County Galway, Ireland. It is beside the N59 national secondary road. It has a population of 100. To the north of the village is a hilly area which leads to the river. To the south is Killywongaun and a by-road which leads to Clifden and the Dooneen area. The name An Gabhlán means "the small fork".
There is also a Gowlan East or An Gabhlán Thoir in nearby Carna.
Coordinates: 54°01′01″N 9°33′19″W / 54.01694°N 9.55528°W / 54.01694; -9.55528
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Headford
Headford (Irish: Áth Cinn) is a town in County Galway, located 26 km north of Galway city in the west of Ireland. It is on the N84 national secondary road from Galway to Castlebar and the R333, and R334 regional roads also serve the town.
In his 1837 Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, Samuel Lewis recorded a population of 1,441. He described the town in some detail:
This is a neat and clean town, having been much improved by its proprietor, R. J. Mansergh St. George, Esq.; it has a considerable trade, and commands fine views of Lough Corrib, and the mountains of Joyces' country and Mayo. It comprises 217 houses, is a chief constabulary police station, and has petty sessions on Mondays; here is also a dispensary. Bobbin lace, coarse linen, and flannel are made. The market is on Tuesday, and fairs are held on May 11th and Oct. 14th. Headford Castle is the residence of R. J. M. St. George, Esq.; it is a handsome modern building, erected on the ruins of the ancient castle; the extensive demesne, which is laid out with great taste, is entered from the town by a good gateway. Here is also Clydagh House, the seat of G. Staunton Lynch, Esq.
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Inishturk
Inishturk (Inis Toirc in Irish, meaning Wild Boar Island) is an inhabited island off the coast of County Mayo in Ireland. It has a permanent population of about seventy people. There are two main settlements, both on the more sheltered eastern end of the island, Ballyheer and Garranty. Bellavaun and Craggy are abandoned settlements. There is a regular ferry from Roonagh pier near Louisburgh. Some inhabitants are descended from evacuees from Inishark to the southwest. The social club Mountain Common is situated on the hill that separates the two settlements. The British built a Martello tower on the western coast during the Napoleonic Wars. Inishturk has the highest per capita donation rate towards the RNLI in the whole of Ireland.[citation needed]
Winner of the All Ireland Islands Championship in 2008.
Documented as part of the RTÉ documentary Pride of the Parish
Between Inishturk and Clare Island lies Caher Island.
Coordinates: 53°42′05″N 10°06′30″W / 53.7014°N 10.1083°W / 53.7014; -10.1083
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Inverin
Inverin (Irish: Indreabhán, its official name) is a Gaeltacht village between Spiddal and Costelloe in County Galway, Ireland. Inverin is more strongly Irish-speaking than Spiddal, partly due to fewer commuters from Galway living there.[citation needed] There are a number of Irish-language summer colleges in the area, most notably Coláiste Lurgan and Coláiste Uí Chadhain. The actual village of Inverin is the area between Baile na hAbhann and Na Minna.
Inverin is reached from the city of Galway on the R336 road. It is served by Bus Éireann route 424 from Galway.
There is a Gaelic Athletic Association club which holds a football tournament every year on St. Stephen's Day.
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Kilclooney
Kilclooney is a townland located near Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland.
Coordinates: 53°20′31″N 8°16′23″W / 53.342°N 8.273°W / 53.342; -8.273
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Kilcolgan
Kilcolgan (Irish: Cill Cholgáin, meaning "Colgan's church"), is a village on the mouth of the Kilcolgan River at Dunkellin Bay in County Galway, Ireland. The N18 passes through the settlement. There are also two public houses, Donoghue's and Raftery's Rest (a public house where, supposedly, the bard Raftery once stayed).
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Kilconnell
Kilconnell (Irish: Cill Chonaill, meaning "St Conal's church") is a small rural village in County Galway, Ireland.
Its population in 2006 was 680. Its land is mainly used for dairy farming and the raising of cattle.
It was once part of the kingdom of the Soghain of Connacht before being conquered by the Uí Maine.
The last known prosecution of a Priest under the Popery Acts was the trial of Fr John O'Connor, Parish Priest of Aughrim and Kilconnell in 1822 at the Galway Summer Assizes, he was acquitted.
This village was the birthplace of Fianna Fáil (FF) politician Johnny Callanan (1910–1982). His nephew Joe Callanan (FF) lost his Dáil seat in the Galway East constituency in the General Election of 2007.
Kilconnell is the location of a Franciscan friary, founded in 1414, by William O'Kelly, Lord of Ui Maine, known locally as the Abbey. Although in ruins it is well maintained by the OPW. The abbey is the burial place for the O'Kelly sept, whose family crest can be seen on some of the headstones. Note: The contributor of the July 2008 Photograph, a member of the O'Kelly sept, searched the grounds for tombstones that allegedly display the Enfield or family crest, but did not see any on the Kelly markers located. They may have been removed, or washed over in time.
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Kilkerrin
Kilkerrin (Irish: Cill Choirín) is a village in County Galway, Ireland. It is situated on the R364 regional road 6km south of the town of Glenamaddy. Notable features in the area are Kiltullagh Lake and the Lough Lurgeen raised bog.
Coordinates: 53°33′9″N 8°34′4″W / 53.5525°N 8.56778°W / 53.5525; -8.56778
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Kilkieran
Cill Chiaráin (anglicized as Kilkieran) is a village in County Galway, Ireland. The R340 road along the coast from Galway city passes through Cill Chiaráin.
Cill Chiaráin is a Gaeltacht area of Ireland. It is linked to the nearby town of Carna by the Irish college of Coláiste Sheoisaimh, which runs courses during the summer and mid-term breaks.
Cill Chiaráin is Irish for "Ciarán's church" and is named after Saint Ciarán, who spent many years living in the village. There is a National School, a Church and a Holy Well named after him. Also, up on the hill overlooking the whole of Cill Chiaráin there is a cross erected in his honour and in front of that there is a place called "Leaba Chiaráin" ("Ciarán's bed").
Cill Chiaráin holds place for many tourists and every year it plays host to the Connemara Triathlon.
There is also a Cill Chiaráin in County Kilkenny.
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Killagoola
Killagoola (Cill Ogúla) is a small townland lying in the parish of Moycullen in County Galway, Ireland.
It is located about 8 miles from Galway city, just off the N59 road which travels north from Galway towards Clifden. Its name is derived from the Irish name of Chill U'goola, which means Church on the Shoulder (of a hill). Indeed there is the ruins of a small church within the boundaries of killagoola, on the largest hill in the area, Cru Mountain.
Until the first half of the 20th century, Gaelic was the language used in the area, but this was lost in the latter half, with a change to English.
Killagoola has locally derived place-names such as Mountview, Sruthan, Sceith and Baile Thiar to distinguish areas of the townland. Lough Kip river runs from the lake, Lough Kip, through the townland towards Ballyquirke Lake, a feeder for the much bigger lake, the Corrib.
Most of the land in the area is used as farmland, reclaimed from boggy or mountainous areas.
Some of the families living in the area have lived there for generations and their names can be viewed on land deeds from the 19th century. After a drop in the townland population from the 1960s to the 1980s, an influx of people in the 1990s, due to its proximity to Galway city, has bolstered the small population.
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Killimor
Killimor (Irish: Cill Íomair, meaning "Iomar's church")
Coordinates: 53°09′54″N 8°17′17″W / 53.165°N 8.288°W / 53.165; -8.288
In 2011,the populaton was 789,348.
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Kilronan
Cill Rónáin (anglicized as Kilronan) is the main settlement on Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. The ferries serving the island call at Doolin, County Clare and also Rossaveal, County Galway. The main industries are fishing and tourism. School children also visit to improve their Irish at summer schools. As of 2006, 259 people live in the village.
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Kiltartan
Kiltartan is a barony in County Galway, Ireland. It was formerly known as Cenél Áeda na hEchtge. It was the home of Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and a regular residence of W.B. Yeats.
It is alluded to in Yeats's poemAn Irish Airman Foresees His Death.
Coordinates: 53°06′N 8°49′W / 53.1°N 8.817°W / 53.1; -8.817
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Kinvara
Kinvara (Irish: Cinn Mhara, meaning "head of the sea") is a sea port village located in the south of County Galway, Ireland. Kinvara is also the name of the parish in which the village is situated. Kinvara is occasionally spelled Kinvarra in English; this may be seen on some maps and road signs, although Kinvara is the most common spelling used nowadays. Kinvarra is still the official form of the name for the townland as shown on OSI maps and this form is still used on polling cards as the name of the townland while the District Electoral Division (DED) is called Kinvara.
Kinvara's area population according to the 2006 Census was 1160. The Great Famine in the 1840s and a series of emigrations that continued up until the 1960s reduced the population of the village – once a thriving port and a significant exporter of corn and seaweed – to no more than a few hundred people. From around the 1980s the population of the parish of Kinvara started to increase while the village started to grow in size.
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Kylemore Abbey
Coordinates: 53°33′42″N 9°53′17″W / 53.56167°N 9.88806°W / 53.56167; -9.88806
Kylemore Abbey (Irish: Mainistir na Coille Móire) is a Benedictine monastery founded in 1920 on the grounds of Kylemore Castle, in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. The abbey was founded for Benedictine Nuns who fled Belgium in World War I.
Kylemore Castle was built as a private home for the family of Mitchell Henry, a wealthy politician from Manchester, England who was also an MP for Galway County from 1871 to 1885. The castle was designed by James Franklin Fuller and Ussher Roberts. Construction first began in 1867, and took one hundred men four years to complete. The castle covered approximately 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2) with over 70 rooms and the principal wall was two to three feet thick. The facade measured 142 feet (43 m) in length and is made of granite brought from Dalkey by sea to Letterfrack and limestone from Ballinasloe. There were 33 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 4 sitting rooms, ballroom, billiard room, library, study, school room, smoking room, gun room and various offices and domestic staff residences for the butler, cook, housekeeper and other servants.
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Leenaun
Leenaun (Irish: An Líonán, meaning "where the tide fills"), also Leenane, is a village and 1,845 acre townland in County Galway, Ireland. It is on the shore of Killary Harbour (Ireland's only fjord), on the northern edge of Connemara and is on the route of the Western Way long-distance trail. The village is at the junction of the N59 and R336 roads in a valley between the mountains of Munterowen West and Devilsmother, with a direct view of Ben Gorm mountain to the north, across the fjord.
Leenaun was the setting for the film, The Field, and of Martin McDonagh's plays The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Lonesome West.
The village is on the shore of Killary Harbour fjord. The ancient woods at Maam Valley are nearby, as is the Delphi Valley in County Mayo.
Following torrential rain on 18 July 2007, the only river bridge in the village was swept away, cutting the town in half. It was part of the N59 national secondary road and had stood there for 182 years. A permanent replacement bridge was constructed with increased hydraulic capacity.
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Letterfrack
Letterfrack or Letterfrac (Irish: Leitir Fraic) is a small village in the Connemara area of County Galway, Ireland. It was founded by Quakers in the mid-19th century. The village is 15 km north-east of Clifden on Barnaderg Bay and lies at the head of Ballinakill harbour. Letterfrack contains the visitors centre for Connemara National Park.
James and Mary Ellis, a Quaker couple from Bradford in England, moved to Letterfrack, during the Great Famine, Ellis becoming the resident landlord in Letterfrack in 1849. As Quakers the Ellises wanted to help with the post-Famine relief effort. They leased nearly 1,000 acres of rough land and set about reclaiming it, farming it and planting it with woodland. They built a schoolhouse, housing for tradesmen, a shop, a dispensary, and a temperance hotel. The Property was sold to John Hall in 1857, a staunch Protestant and supporter of the Irish Church Mission to Roman Catholics, the ICM used the building with the aim of converting Catholics to Protestantism, after 25 years without much success he sold it in 1882 under the impression he was selling it was a Protestant buyer for £3000 for 1000 acres.
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Lettermore
Lettermore, (Irish: Leitir Móir), is a Gaeltacht village in County Galway, Ireland. It is also the name of an island, linked by road to the mainland, on which the village sits. The name comes from the Irish Leitir Móir meaning great rough hillside (leitir = rough hillside). The main spoken language of the area is Irish. Lettemore island is in two halves. The eastern half is known as Lettermore while the western half is known as Lettercallow (Leitir Calaidh, "rough hillside by a marshy area").
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Lettermullen
Lettermullan, (Irish: Leitir Mealláin, meaning "Mealláin's rough hillside"), is a small island and village on the coast of Connemara in County Galway, Ireland. It is about 36 miles west of Galway city, at the far western end of Galway Bay, Lettermullen is the western-most of three islands; Lettermullen, Gorumna and Lettermore, along with smaller islands collectively known as Ceantar na nOileán connected to the mainland by bridges and causeways.
Lettermullen is part of the Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking region) and Irish is the language most commonly spoken. Accordingly, its official name is Leitir Mealláin.
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Lissagurraun
Lios an Gharráin (anglicised Lissagurraun) is a townland of Moycullen near Barna in County Galway, Ireland. The populants of Lissagurran are exactly the same distance from Moycullen and Barna. There are only 10 houses, and no shops or schools. There are roughly 24 inhabitants.
Coordinates: 53°17′50″N 9°09′30″W / 53.29722°N 9.15833°W / 53.29722; -9.15833
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Loughrea
Loughrea ( /lɒxˈreɪ/ lokh-RAY; Irish: Baile Locha Riach, meaning "town of the grey lake") is a town in County Galway, Ireland. The town lies north of a range of wooded hills, the Slieve Aughty Mountains. The Town is also famous for its beautiful cathedral (see Loughrea Cathedral) which dominates the town's skyline.
The town expanded in recent years as it increasingly becomes a commuter town for the city of Galway.
The town takes its name from Loch Riach (Irish for "the grey lake") on which it lies. It is also suggested that the lake's name derives from Loch Riabhach (meaning "speckled lake"). This alternative Irish name is used in the name the local Irish-language multi-faith primary school: Gaelscoil Riabhach. The town is within an area that was historically called Trícha Máenmaige.
Loughrea was traditionally a farming town that cut its industrial teeth with Tynagh Mines, 6 km (3.73 mi) to the east. Tynagh was for 15 years (1960–1975) the most important zinc and silver mine in Ireland.[citation needed] There is now a Gas Powered electricity power station on the site of Tynagh mines As well as being a dormer town for Galway, Loughrea now hosts a number of pharmaceutical and data-processing industries. Tourism and small cottage industries also play an important role in the community.[citation needed] Loughrea's tourist infrastructure is supported by several hotels, a country-resort, as well as many bed and breakfasts, restaurants, coffee-shops and pubs.
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Maam Cross
Maam Cross (Irish: an Teach Dóite, meaning "the burned house") is a crossroads in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. It lies within the townland of Shindilla.
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Maum
An Mám (anglicized as Maum) is a village in County Galway, Ireland. Its name is Irish for "the pass".
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Menlough
Coordinates: 53°25′23″N 8°34′44″W / 53.42298°N 8.57882°W / 53.42298; -8.57882 Menlough (Irish: Mionlach) is a village in northeast County Galway in Ireland. Located 38 km from Galway, 30 km from Tuam, 29 km from Ballinasloe, and 20 km from Athenry, it forms part of the civil parish of Killascobe.
Historically, Menlough was in the Barony of Hymany which was a stronghold of the O'Mannion clan. The ruins of an O'Mannion castle are located in the fields behind the grotto in the centre of the village. Another O'Mannion castle in the parish is better known as there are more extensive ruins. This second ruin is known as Garbally castle. It is visible to travellers from Galway to Menlough as they pass through Skehana (half parish of Menlough).
Other notable historical monuments include the old IRA monument, erected in the 90s in the centre of the village. It can be seen opposite Jordans shop (formally McLoughlins) on the main street.
During the Irish War of Independence, a local landlord and large landholder Joyce was shot dead in the parish of Menlough as he walked to Mass. No one was ever apprehended for the crime and the incident forms part of parish folklore. The irony was that the landlord Joyce considered himself more Irish than anyone and was a supporter of the cause and the whole Joyce clan had a history of helping the locals stretching back to before the famine. The ruins of Joyce's house are still visible in the townland of Corgary as are the fine walls built to protect his lands.
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Monivea
Monivea (Irish: Mhuine an Mheá, meaning "Meadow of the mead" is a village in County Galway, Ireland.
It was formerly part of the kingdom of the Soghain of Connacht. It is located approximately 30 km from Galway City and 9 km from Athenry. Monivea is known for its sizable forest, Monivea Castle which now lies in partial ruins, and a well-preserved mausoleum. Mausoleum and castle were built by the Ffrench (or ffrench) family, one of the "Tribes of Galway" and landholders since early Norman times, who remained Catholic. The Ffrench family were also responsible for the distinctive layout of the greens in the centre of the village, which were used as drying stations for the linen (known as flax) of local industries.
The forest, mausoleum and castle were left to the State by the last ffrench, and the forest is now held by Coillte (formerly the Irish Forestry Commission).
There are two small grocery shops, a petrol station, four pubs, a Garda station, a post office, a church in Ryehill, and Monivea National School. The Monivea Village Market is held every Saturday in Cooke's Yard from 10am until 3pm
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Mountbellew
Mountbellew or Mountbellew Bridge (historically Creggaun, from Irish: an Creagán, meaning "the rocky place") is a village in County Galway, Ireland. It lies mostly within the townland of Treanrevagh (Trian Riabhach) on the N63 national primary road.
The town consists of many shops and small businesses. There are four schools located in the town, St. Mary's National School,Colaiste an Chreagain Holy Rossary college and the Franciscan Brothers Agricultural College.
There are many historic and scenic points throughout the town which include: The Bellew Estate and woodlands, a small lake, the old forge and the Catholic Church. The Bellew estate was once the home of the Grattan-Bellew family, famous Galway parliamentarians during the 18th and 19th centuries. Their demesne is now a delightful wooded area of forest walks and picnic areas, filled with interesting historical items. The village bridge also contains a rare milestone inserted in the middle of its parapet.
Mountbellew Agricultural College is owned and managed by the Franciscan Brothers. Their mission is to provide a comprehensive and competitive range of training programmes for those engaged in Agriculture and food related sectors. The programmes have the maintenance and enhancement of the environment, countryside and rural communities as their major priorities.
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Moycullen
Moycullen (Irish language Maigh Cuilinn) is a Gaeltacht village in County Galway, Ireland, about 10 km (7 mi) northwest of Galway city. It is near Lough Corrib, on the N59 road to Oughterard and Clifden, in Connemara.
Moycullen is now a satellite town of Galway with most residents commuting to the city for work, school, and business.
It is home to two senior GAA clubs, a handball club and a successful basketball club.
Most townlands are anglizations of the original Irish-language names.
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Moylough
Moylough ( /mɔɪˈlɒx/ moy-LOKH; Irish: Maigh Locha, meaning "plain of the lake") is a small rural village located in County Galway in Ireland. It is located on the N63 national secondary road (Cnoc Tua Mór–Longford), and is served also by the R328 and R364 regional roads. It is 50 km from Galway, 30 km from Roscommon, and 5 km northwest of Mountbellew. It is twinned with Elliant in Brittany.
It was formerly part of the kingdom of the Soghain of Connacht.
Coordinates: 53°29′20″N 8°34′30″W / 53.489°N 8.575°W / 53.489; -8.575
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Nova Scotia
Coordinates: 45°13′N 62°42′W / 45.217°N 62.7°W / 45.217; -62.7 (Nova Scotia)
Nova Scotia (pronounced /ˌnoʊvə ˈskoʊʃə/; French: Nouvelle-Écosse; Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh) is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province of the four in Atlantic Canada. Located almost exactly halfway between the Equator and the North Pole (44º 39' N Longitude), its provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the second-smallest province in Canada with an area of 55,284 square kilometres (21,300 sq mi), including Cape Breton and some 3,800 coastal islands. As of 2011, the population was 921,727, making Nova Scotia the second-most-densely populated province in Canada.
Nova Scotia was already home to the Mi'kmaq people when French colonists established Port Royal, Nova Scotia, the first permanent European settlement in North America north of Florida in 1605. Almost one hundred and fifty years later, the first English and German settlers arrived with the founding of Halifax (1749). The first Scottish migration was on the Hector (1773) and then the first Black migration happened after the American Revolution (1783). Despite the diversity of the cultural heritage of Nova Scotia, much of the twentieth-century tourism efforts focused primarily on all things Scottish. Many recent tourism efforts embrace and showcase Nova Scotia's diversity.
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Omey Island
Omey Island (Irish: Iomaidh) is a tidal island situated near Claddaghduff on the western edge of Connemara in County Galway, Ireland. From the mainland the island is inconspicuous and almost hidden. It is possible to drive or walk across a large sandy strand to the island by following the arrowed signs. At high tide, the water is deep enough to cover a car.
In the early-to-mid-1990s a team of archaeologists from University College Dublin began work to study the monastic heritage of the island, long known for being the site of a monastery and settlement founded by the prodigious St Feichin. In fact, its name derives from the Irish Iomaidh Feichín meaning Feichín's bed or seat.
The excavation gave new insights into the life of early Christianity in Ireland and included one of the few known burials of a female within a monastic burial ground. The site is believed to date from the early 6th century.
The island of Omey remains a place of devotion to Saint Feichín to this day, with a Holy Well situated by the western edge and several other key landmarks of piety, including the still existing ancient church - with the majority of its vast stones still very much in place (having been buried in centuries of sand until the parish priest took matters into his own hands and, with the help of locals, dug up the area surrounding it.
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Oranmore
Oranmore (Irish: Órán Mór) is a village in County Galway on the outskirts of Galway city, Ireland. With its major housing developments, Oranmore is rapidly becoming a part of Galway's commuter or suburban belt. In 2004 Oranmore was listed as one of the communities with the highest per capita incomes in Ireland[citation needed].
Oranmore is situated 9 km (5.6 mi) east of Galway City on the edge of Oranmore Bay, an inlet of Galway Bay.
The focus of local industry has recently shifted from primarily dairy agriculture to tourism, manufacturing and logistics. There are several industrial parks located near the village, such as Deerpark Industrial Estate which has been a hub for industry for many decades particularly in the precast concrete, chemical and steel fabrication industries. Oranmore now has four hotels and several restaurants. Lidl opened in June 2009 on the site of the old Oranmore Dairies.
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Oughterard
Oughterard (Irish: Uachtar Ard) is a small town on the banks of the Owenriff River close to the western shore of Lough Corrib in County Galway, Ireland. The population of the town in 2006 was 1,305. Located some 26 km northwest of Galway on the N59 road, Oughterard is the chief angling centre on the lough.[citation needed]
Three kilometres outside the town stand the ruins of Aughnanure Castle, a well-preserved[citation needed] example of an Irish tower house. Much of the surrounding area was occupied by the O'Flaherty clan, but was taken over by The first Earl of Ulster, Walter de Burgo, in 1256. Ross Castle is also located a number of miles outside Oughterard. The mansion which is visible today was built by the Martin Family in the 17th century but there is some evidence still present of the original castle structure, built in the 15th century by the O'Flaherty Family, in its foundation.
The Quiet Man Bridge is located 5 miles past Oughterard, down the Leam Road, which was the setting for the 1950s film "The Quiet Man" starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara.
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Portumna
Portumna (Irish: Port Omna - meaning 'the landing place of the oak') is a market town in the south-east of County Galway, Ireland, on the border with County Tipperary. The town is located to the west of the point where the River Shannon enters Lough Derg. This historic crossing point over the River Shannon between counties Tipperary and Galway has a long history of bridges and ferry crossings. On the west side of the town is Portumna Castle and its forest park.
Portumna is served with a five-span road bridge over the Shannon. This was designed by C. E. Stanier of London, and completed in 1911, with a central section resting on Hayes's Island which divides the river into two channels. The steel structure of the main bridge and pivotting swing bridge over the navigation channel are of technical and engineering interest, and it is the largest early-twentieth century swivel bridge in Europe.[citation needed]. The opening section was replaced in October 2008.
The Shannon at this point consists of two channels divided by Hayes Island, the one on the North Tipperary side being about 79 m (260 ft) wide, and that on the Galway side being about 73 m (240 ft) wide. Each channel is spanned by three pairs of mild-steel plate girders, either 24 m (80 ft) or 27 m (90 ft) in length, resting on 3 m (9 ft) diameter concrete-filled cast-iron cylinders.
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Republic of Ireland
Ireland (/ˈaɪərlənd/ or /ˈɑrlənd/; Irish: Éire, pronounced [ˈeːɾʲə] (
listen)) is a sovereign state in Europe occupying about five-sixths of the island of Ireland. Its capital is Dublin. The population of the state was 4.59 million in 2011. It is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy, with an elected president serving as head of state. In the 1937 constitution, the name of the state is given as simply "Ireland". The Constitution of Ireland (Article 4) and the Republic of Ireland Act 1948 provides that the "Republic of Ireland" (Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann) is "the description of the state".
Ireland is a member of the European Union, the Council of Europe, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Trade Organisation and the United Nations. A developed country with the seventh highest Human Development Index, Ireland is also highly ranked for press freedom, economic freedom and democracy and political freedom.
The modern Irish state was established in 1922 as the Irish Free State, a dominion within the British Empire, following the Anglo-Irish Treaty which brought an end to the Irish War of Independence. The partition of Ireland had already been provided for in previous British legislation in 1921 in response to opposition to Irish Home Rule or independence by Unionists, who formed a majority in the north-eastern part of the country. Six of the nine counties in the northern province of Ulster were established under that legislation as Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, with which the Irish state shares its only land border. The state is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, St George's Channel to the south east, and the Irish Sea to the east.
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Rosmuc
Rosmuc or Ros Muc (formerly anglicised as Rosmuck) is a village in the heart of the Conamara Gaeltacht of County Galway, Ireland. It lies halfway between the town of Clifden and the city of Galway. It is estimated that people first settled in Rosmuc in 400, one hundred years before Naomh Briocán (Saint Briocán) brought Christianity to the area. That is to say that there are people that have been in Rosmuc for one thousand five hundred years. Irish is the predominantly spoken language. The District Electoral Division of Turlough, Rosmuc, state that Rosmuc is the most strongly Irish-speaking area in the country. According to an analysis of the census a total of 91.9% of adults over nineteen years old said they spoke Irish on a daily basis. The population of Rosmuc is estimated to be around five hundred people. For the past thirty years there has been a decline in the population, this is mainly due to emigration, although the tide of emigration has subsided in recent years due to the robust nature of the Irish economy. The village is the birth-place of a former president of the Gaelic League, Proinsias Mac Aonghusa.
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Rossaveal
Rossaveal (Irish: Ros an Mhíl or Ros a' Mhíl) is a Gaeltacht village in the Connemara area of County Galway, Ireland. It is the main ferry port for the Aran Islands in Galway Bay. It is about 23 kilometres (14 mi) from Galway city.
The Irish name Ros an Mhíl means "peninsula of the whale or sea monster". The village is the home of the Ros a' Mhíl centre under Coláiste Chamuis.[clarification needed What does this mean?] It is served by Bus Éireann route 24 from Galway.
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Skehana
Skehana (Irish: Sceachana) is a small village in County Galway, Ireland. The name Skehana derives from the Irish Sceith eánach meaning "place of the whitethorn".
It is a half parish which is contained within the diocesan parish of Killascobe. It was noted in the literary world in the late 1980s and early 1990s for an annual Arts Festival which was held there. A hurling club exists and has enjoyed many successes in recent years. Two public houses existed in the parish until very recently, Costellos and Screenes. The latter has since closed, however Costellos continues to enjoy a regular trade. The ruins of an Anglo-Norman tower house, Garbally Castle, exist immediately West of the local national school.
The area is noted for its passionate hurling teams with the cry "Up Skehana" enjoying local and national recognition.
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Spiddal
Spiddal (Irish: An Spidéal, meaning "the hospital") is a Gaeltacht village on the shore of Galway Bay in County Galway, Ireland. It is 19 km (12 mi) west of Galway city, on the R336 road. Spiddal is on the eastern side of the county's Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking district) and of the Connemara region. It is a tourist centre with a scenic beach, harbour, and shore fishing.
The Mac Proinnséas shop is a combined newsagent's, grocery store, post office, and petrol station opposite Cill Éinne (St. Enda's Church) in the centre of the village. There is also a pharmacy, a bank, and Feeney's butcher shop. Restaurants include a Supermac's fast food outlet and a Chinese restaurant called The Oriental Kitchen. On most weekend nights and sometimes during the week in summer, there is live traditional Irish music in the pubs, most of which double as restaurants. Hughes' pub hosts traditional music sessions where famous musicians sometimes play. An Crúiscín Lán is a hotel, pub, and restaurant. The Boluisce is a pub and seafood restaurant named after a local lake, while other pubs are An Nead and An Tobar. There is a craft centre and gallery called An Cheardlann to the east, and bed and breakfast accommodation can be found around the village.
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Tuam
Tuam (Irish: Tuaim) is a town in County Galway, Ireland. The name is pronounced choo-um (IPA: /ˈtʃuːəm/). It is situated west of the midlands of Ireland, and north of Galway city.
The record of human settlement in Tuam dates back to the Bronze Age when an area adjacent to Shop Street was used as a burial ground. The name Tuam is a cognate with the Latin term tumulus (burial mound). The town's ancient name was Tuaim Dá Ghualann, i.e. the burial mound of two shoulders.
The name probably refers to the high ground on either side of the River Nanny, overlooking a probable fording point over the River Nanny (or Corchra). In 1875, a Bronze Age burial urn was discovered in the area by workmen, dating from c.1500 B.C. An early glass photograph still exists.
The history of Tuam as a settlement dates from the early 6th century. Legend states that a monk called Jarlath, or Iarlaith, who was a member of a religious community at Cloonfush some four miles west of Tuam and adjacent to the religious settlement at Kilbennon. Jarlath's life became uncertain as he wished to travel. Eventually, Jarlath's abbot, Saint Benan told him to "Go, and where ever your chariot wheel breaks, there shall be the site of your new monastery and the place of your resurrection". Jarlath's wheel broke at Tuam and he established a monastery there, known as the School of Tuam. As was typical with early settlements in Ireland, religious sites became established first and towns grew around them. Likewise, Tuam grew up around the monastery and has kept the broken chariot wheel as its heraldic symbol.
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Turloughmore
Turloughmore ( /tɜrlɒxˈmoʊr/ tur-lokh-MOHR; Irish: an Turlach Mór, meaning "big lake") is a village in County Galway, Ireland. The name means "the large lake," a notable feature of the area, together with the Clare River (Abhainn an Chláir).
It is a small village consisting of two petrol stations, three pubs and the base of a large bus service. The expansion of Galway city is bringing it closer to the urban boundary, with a consequent increase in population and jobs. It is on the N63 national secondary road.
The village was once famous for the horse fair held there, and infamous for its faction-fighting. The village represents a long-established settlement with a medieval history, and is near the site of the Battle of Knockdoe (Irish Cath Chnoc Tua), a bloody conflict in 1504 between some of the most powerful magnates of the time.
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Twelve Bens
The Twelve Bens, or Twelve Pins (Irish: Na Beanna Beola), is a mountain range of sharp-peaked quartzite ranges located northeast of Roundstone in Connemara in the west of Ireland. Dedicated fell runners attempt to hike all twelve peaks in a single day. Topographically, this range is partnered with the Maumturks range on the other side of the lonely Glen Inagh (and the route of Western Way long distance path). Frequent rainfall and steep-sided mountains produce an abundance of small trickles and streams which descend into wide-bottomed valleys below the Twelve Pins to join larger streams with riffles and pools. The highest point in the Twelve Bens is Benbaun at 729 metres (2,392 ft). They provide excellent walking and climbing opportunities for outdoor enthusiasts.
The following table lists the 12 highest major mountain peaks of the Twelve Bens Mountains, all with a topographic elevation of at least 516 metres (1,693 ft). There are a number of mountains higher than Benglenisky, but do not have sufficient prominence to be included in this list.
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Wales
Wales
i/ˈweɪlz/ (Welsh: Cymru;Welsh pronunciation: [ˈkəm.rɨ] ( listen)) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain,bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km2 (8,023 sq mi). Wales has over 1,200 km (750 mi) of coastline, including its offshore islands; the largest, Anglesey (Ynys Môn), is also the largest island in the Irish Sea. Wales is largely mountainous, with its highest peaks in the north and central areas, especially in Snowdonia (Eryri), which contains Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), its highest summit.
During the Iron Age and early medieval period, Wales was inhabited by the Celtic Britons. A distinct Welsh national identity emerged in the centuries after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century, and Wales is regarded as one of the modern Celtic nations today. Gruffydd ap Llywelyn was recognised as King of Wales in 1057. Llywelyn ap Gruffydd's death in 1282 marked the completion of Edward I of England's conquest of Wales. The castles and town walls erected to ensure its permanence are now UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Owain Glyndŵr briefly restored independence to what was to become modern Wales, in the early 15th century. Wales was subsequently annexed by England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542 since when, excluding those matters now devolved to Wales, English law has been the legal system of Wales and England. Distinctive Welsh politics developed in the 19th century. Welsh Liberalism, exemplified in the early 20th century by Lloyd George, was displaced by the growth of socialism and the Labour Party. Welsh national feeling grew over the century; Plaid Cymru was formed in 1925 and The Welsh Language Society in 1962. The National Assembly for Wales, created in 1999 following a referendum, holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters.
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Waunfawr
Waunfawr (English: large moorland/heathland) is a large village on the outskirts of the Snowdonia National Park, Gwynedd, in Wales, south of Llanrug. Its population is roughly 1,500
Waunfawr railway station on the Welsh Highland Railway between Caernarfon and Porthmadog adjoins the Snowdonia Park Brewpub and Inn at the southern end of the village.
The local community enterprise charity, Antur Waunfawr, among its many local initiatives, operates the Bryn Pistyll Site at Waunfawr as a popular attraction for local people and tourists. It includes a nature park, gardens and nursery, museum, crafts and local products shop, cafe and children’s play area.
The Marconi Company built a large high-powered Long Wave Wireless Telegraph transmitting station near the village in 1914 which worked in association with its receiving station at Tywyn. The station initiated commercial transatlantic wireless service from London to New York in 1920. It replaced Marconi's transatlantic wireless service from Clifden, Ireland to Canada, after the Clifden station was destroyed in the Irish Civil War in 1922. The building is now used as a climbing centre.
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Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi (Italian pronunciation: [ɡuʎˈʎɛːlmo marˈkoːni]; 25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is often credited as the inventor of radio, and indeed he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy". Much of Marconi's work in radio transmission was built upon previous experimentation and the commercial exploitation of ideas by others such as Hertz, Maxwell, Faraday, Popov, Lodge, Fessenden, Stone, Bose, and Tesla. As an entrepreneur, businessman, and founder of the The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company in 1897, Marconi succeeded in making a commercial success of radio by innovating and building on the work of previous experimenters and physicists. In 1924, he was ennobled as Marchese Marconi.
Marconi was born in Bologna on April 25, 1874, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi, an Italian landowner, and his Irish wife, Annie Jameson, daughter of Andrew Jameson of Daphne Castle in the County Wexford, Ireland and granddaughter of John Jameson, founder of whiskey distillers Jameson & Sons. Marconi was educated privately in Bologna in the lab of Augusto Righi, in Florence at the Istituto Cavallero and, later, in Livorno. As a child Marconi did not do well in school.Baptized as a Catholic, he was also a member of the Anglican Church, being married into it; however, he still received a Catholic annulment.
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Irish Civil War
The Irish Civil War (Irish: Cogadh Cathartha na hÉireann; 28 June 1922 – 24 May 1923) was a conflict that accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State as an entity independent from the United Kingdom within the British Empire.
The conflict was waged between two opposing groups of Irish nationalists: the forces of the "Provisional Government" that established the Free State in December 1922, who supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and the Republican opposition, for whom the Treaty represented a betrayal of the Irish Republic. The war was won by the Free State forces.
The Civil War may have claimed more lives than the War of Independence against Britain that preceded it, and left Irish society divided and embittered. Today, two of the main political parties in the Republic of Ireland, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, are direct descendants of the opposing sides in the war.
The Anglo-Irish Treaty arose from the Irish War of Independence, fought between Irish separatists (organised as the Irish Republic) and the British government, from 1919–1921. The treaty provided for a self-governing Irish state in 26 of Ireland's 32 counties, having its own army and police. However, rather than creating the independent republic favoured by most nationalists, the Irish Free State would be an autonomous dominion of the British Empire with the British monarch as head of state, in the same manner as Canada and Australia. This had been suggested by the British in secret correspondence even before treaty negotiations began, but rejected by de Valera. The treaty also stipulated that members of the new Irish Oireachtas (parliament) would have to take the following "Oath of Allegiance"
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Jon Riley
Jon Patrick Riley (Irish: Seán Pádraic Ó Raghallaigh), also known as John Patrick O'Riley, (c. 1805 – August 1850), a United States Army private, was one of the several hundred immigrant Catholic Irishmen who defected from the US Army and formed the Saint Patrick's Battalion to fight for Mexico in the 1846-48 Mexican-American War. Riley led the battalion as a brevet major commissioned by Mexico.
Riley was born in Clifden, County Galway, Ireland about 1805; his name in the original Irish Gaelic is Seán O' Raghailligh. Riley served with the British Army before emigrating to Canada. Connemara and other rural regions suffered greatly during the Irish Potato Famine, and millions of people emigrated by ship from Ireland to Canada and the United States to survive.
Soon after his arrival in the United States in Michigan, Riley enlisted in the US Army. Many immigrants were recruited in the 1840s; some served just to earn some money, as they had usually fled famine and severe poverty in their home countries.
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Mitchell Henry
Mitchell Henry (1826 – 22 November 1910) was an English financier, politician and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was MP for Galway County from 1871 to 1885, and for Glasgow Blackfriars and Hutchesontown from 1885 to 1886.
Mitchell Henry was the second son of Alexander Henry (1784–1862) of Woodlands, near Manchester, England, a very affluent cotton merchant, founder of A & S Henry & Co Ltd and Member of Parliament for South Lancashire from 1847 to 1852, who was married to Elizabeth, daughter of George Brush of Willowbrook, Killinchy, County Down, and a supporter of the Anti-Corn Law League. He was educated in London and at University College London where he read for a degree in medicine, eventually becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He become a senior consultant at the Middlesex Hospital in London by the time he was 30.
After the death of his father in 1862 Mitchell Henry abandoned his career in medicine and returned to his native Manchester to run the family business. He soon became involved in politics and contested Woodstock for the Liberals in 1865, and stood in the 1867 Manchester by-election, and the 1868 general election, as a moderate Liberal, but was well-beaten in both contests. As part of his candidature in 1868 Henry started up the Manchester Evening News, though it passed out of his hands at the end of the election. He was particularly interested in the cause for a better health provision for the poor.
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Clifden Visitors Guide
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I made this introduction to the new Clifden Visitors Guide with the Clifden Chamber of Commerce. It was shown to Minister Eamon O'Cuiv in a presentation in the Abbeyglen one evening around August '02. Thanks to Martin, as ever, for the music
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I made this introduction to the new Clifden Visitors Guide with the Clifden Chamber of Commerce. It was shown to Minister Eamon O'Cuiv in a presentation in the Abbeyglen one evening around August '02. Thanks to Martin, as ever, for the music
Clifden Town, Co. Galway, Ireland
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Drive through video of Clifden, Co. Galway, www.vidireland.com
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CLIFDEN DRIVE THROUGH
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DRIVING THROUGH CLIFDEN
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clifden june 2012
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kayaking down in clifden on the wave and hole
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kayaking down in clifden on the wave and hole
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Ryan Tubridy kicks off Clifden's bicentenary festival
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For 10 days May 25th - June 4 th, packed with entertainment events seminars lectures etc, Clifden partied. This video shows how. More views on this topic on the way!
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Music session in the Central Bar - Clifden 2012
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Kevin Barry, John G. Walsh and Tom performing a song in The Central Bar, Clifden, Co. Galway, Ireland.
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Kevin Barry, John G. Walsh and Tom performing a song in The Central Bar, Clifden, Co. Galway, Ireland.
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Celebrity Sean Nos 2012 - Donal O'Brien, Lowry's Bar, Clifden, Connemara
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Donal O'Brien from Lowry's Bar, Clifden Connemara learns the old style Irish dance, sean nós from John Joyce, Recess. Donal is learning to dance to perform at Clifden Comhaltas Celebrity Sean Nos fundraiser at 9pm on 16th March 2012 Clifden Station House Hotel, Clifden Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland More @ www.clifdencomhaltas.com
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Donal O'Brien from Lowry's Bar, Clifden Connemara learns the old style Irish dance, sean nós from John Joyce, Recess. Donal is learning to dance to perform at Clifden Comhaltas Celebrity Sean Nos fundraiser at 9pm on 16th March 2012 Clifden Station House Hotel, Clifden Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland More @ www.clifdencomhaltas.com
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clifden poker 2
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Clifden Poker Club winter league final
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- published: 11 Jan 2013
- author: nell madley
clifden - Ireland , fishing with John Ryan
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- Duration: 3:45
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
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The dancing men from Charlbury in EJ's, Clifden, Connemara
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- Duration: 0:48
- Updated: 07 Aug 2012
The Dancing men from the Rose & Crown, Charlbury near Oxford meet the Dancing Man from Letterfrack ...late in EJ's, Clifden, Connemara ...to music from All Ireland banjo champion Tom Mullen and the amazingly talented 17 year old [! ] Brian Holmes
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The Dancing men from the Rose & Crown, Charlbury near Oxford meet the Dancing Man from Letterfrack ...late in EJ's, Clifden, Connemara ...to music from All Ireland banjo champion Tom Mullen and the amazingly talented 17 year old [! ] Brian Holmes
- published: 05 Aug 2012
- views: 174
- author: Robert Bartlett
Nancy Spain - Guys Bar - Clifden
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- Duration: 3:49
- Updated: 06 Aug 2012
John Durning and Shona O'Flaherty performing one of Christy Moore's songs, aka "Nancy Spain" in Guys Bar, Clifden, Co. Galway, Ireland. Lyrics: Of all the stars that ever shone Not one does twinkle like your pale blue eyes Like golden corn at harvest time your hair Sailing in my boat the wind Gently blows and fills my sail Your sweet-scented breath is everywhere Daylight peeping through the curtain Of the passing night time is your smile And the sun in the sky is like your laugh Come back to me my Nancy Linger for just a little while Since you left these shores I've known no peace Nor joy No matter where I wander I'm still haunted by your name The portrait of your beauty stays the same Standing by the ocean wondering where you've gone, if you'll return again Where is the ring I gave to Nancy Spain On the day in Spring when snow starts to melt And streams to flow With the birds I'll sing this song Then in the while I'll wander Down by bluebell stream where wild flowers grow And I'll hope that lovely Nancy will return
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John Durning and Shona O'Flaherty performing one of Christy Moore's songs, aka "Nancy Spain" in Guys Bar, Clifden, Co. Galway, Ireland. Lyrics: Of all the stars that ever shone Not one does twinkle like your pale blue eyes Like golden corn at harvest time your hair Sailing in my boat the wind Gently blows and fills my sail Your sweet-scented breath is everywhere Daylight peeping through the curtain Of the passing night time is your smile And the sun in the sky is like your laugh Come back to me my Nancy Linger for just a little while Since you left these shores I've known no peace Nor joy No matter where I wander I'm still haunted by your name The portrait of your beauty stays the same Standing by the ocean wondering where you've gone, if you'll return again Where is the ring I gave to Nancy Spain On the day in Spring when snow starts to melt And streams to flow With the birds I'll sing this song Then in the while I'll wander Down by bluebell stream where wild flowers grow And I'll hope that lovely Nancy will return
- published: 02 Jul 2012
- views: 249
- author: Chaltimbanque
Sean Nos On Streets Of Clifden
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- Duration: 1:24
- Updated: 11 Dec 2012
Irishtv.ie were in Clifden some time ago where we were treated to some wonderful Sean Nos Dancing by the local dancers. Take a look. See more at www.irishtv.ie
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Irishtv.ie were in Clifden some time ago where we were treated to some wonderful Sean Nos Dancing by the local dancers. Take a look. See more at www.irishtv.ie
- published: 04 Dec 2012
- views: 57
- author: Irish TV
Scahill & Howley in Clifden 2012
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- Duration: 3:32
- Updated: 20 Nov 2012
Fergall Scahill and David Howley in J. Conneely´s Bar, Clifden, Co. Galway, Ireland - September 22, 2012
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Fergall Scahill and David Howley in J. Conneely´s Bar, Clifden, Co. Galway, Ireland - September 22, 2012
- published: 19 Nov 2012
- views: 38
- author: klaskova
The Lace (Power-Cut Soukous) @ Mullarkeys Clifden
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- Duration: 8:37
- Updated: 02 Oct 2012
The Lace play through the (1st) power cut and the crowd keep dancing, at Mullarkey's bar Clifden. Clifden Arts Festival 2012
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The Lace play through the (1st) power cut and the crowd keep dancing, at Mullarkey's bar Clifden. Clifden Arts Festival 2012
- published: 02 Oct 2012
- views: 108
- author: FeileAfrica
The National Park of Connemara - Letterfrack - NEAR of Clifden - Ireland
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- Duration: 2:44
- Updated: 25 Nov 2012
Here, a short video about the National Park of Connemara ! In clifden, Ireland. Captured by Canon EOS 7D Music by Tony Rainy : www.noomiz.com
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Here, a short video about the National Park of Connemara ! In clifden, Ireland. Captured by Canon EOS 7D Music by Tony Rainy : www.noomiz.com
- published: 05 Nov 2012
- views: 576
- author: Tony Rainy
The Lace @ Mullarkey's Bar Clifden.MOV
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- Duration: 6:59
- Updated: 01 Oct 2012
The Lace playing at Mullarkey's Bar Clifden on 29th September as part of The Clifden Arts Festival
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The Lace playing at Mullarkey's Bar Clifden on 29th September as part of The Clifden Arts Festival
- published: 30 Sep 2012
- views: 77
- author: FeileAfrica
The Spanish Lady - Guys Bar - Clifden
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- Duration: 3:27
- Updated: 25 Aug 2012
John Durning and Shona O'Flaherty performing the song known as "The Spanish Lady" in Guys Bar, Clifden, Co. Galway, Ireland. Lyrics (some slight modifications can always be made): As I came down through Dublin City At the hour of twelve at night Who should I see but the Spanish lady Washing her feet by candlelight First she washed them, then she dried them Over a fire of amber coal In all my life I ne'er did see A maid so sweet about the sole Chorus: Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay As I came back through Dublin City At the hour of half past eight Who should I spy but the Spanish lady Brushing her hair in the broad daylight First she tossed it, then she brushed it On her lap was a silver comb In all my life I ne'er did see A maid so fair since I did roam (Chorus) As I went back through Dublin City As the sun began to set Who should I spy but the Spanish lady Catching a moth in a golden net When she saw me, then she fled me Lifting her petticoat over her knee In all my life I ne'er did see A maid so shy as the Spanish lady (Chorus...)
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John Durning and Shona O'Flaherty performing the song known as "The Spanish Lady" in Guys Bar, Clifden, Co. Galway, Ireland. Lyrics (some slight modifications can always be made): As I came down through Dublin City At the hour of twelve at night Who should I see but the Spanish lady Washing her feet by candlelight First she washed them, then she dried them Over a fire of amber coal In all my life I ne'er did see A maid so sweet about the sole Chorus: Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay As I came back through Dublin City At the hour of half past eight Who should I spy but the Spanish lady Brushing her hair in the broad daylight First she tossed it, then she brushed it On her lap was a silver comb In all my life I ne'er did see A maid so fair since I did roam (Chorus) As I went back through Dublin City As the sun began to set Who should I spy but the Spanish lady Catching a moth in a golden net When she saw me, then she fled me Lifting her petticoat over her knee In all my life I ne'er did see A maid so shy as the Spanish lady (Chorus...)
- published: 02 Jul 2012
- views: 170
- author: Chaltimbanque
Omey View Claddaghduff Clifden
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- Duration: 2:09
- Updated: 21 Sep 2012
To book visit www.selfcatering.travel selfcatering.travel Omey View Claddaghduff Clifden Connemara luxury 4 bedroomed en suite for up to 12 people. Luxury self catering holiday home overlooking Omey Island on the West coast of Ireland. This is a newly built vacation rental situated in a tranquil setting opposite the Church in Claddaghduff village. The accommodation is of a very high standard and can cater for up to 12 people. Key features include: 4 en suite bedrooms, spacious living areas, a cosy sitting room and an open plan kitchen-diner. separate bathroom with jacuzzi bath Location This is a great location for families or groups visiting the West of Ireland located only 7 miles from Clifden. The property is within a 5 minutes stroll of a safe sandy beaches, pub and shops. Pony riding available locally. Golf (20kms), Ferry to Inishbofin (3kms). €1000 per week Jul/Aug . Price negotiable for Sept -June. Towels and bed linen included. Electricity and Gas metered and read on arrival and departure. Claddaghduff is situated northwest of Clifden, the gateway to Omey Island.
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To book visit www.selfcatering.travel selfcatering.travel Omey View Claddaghduff Clifden Connemara luxury 4 bedroomed en suite for up to 12 people. Luxury self catering holiday home overlooking Omey Island on the West coast of Ireland. This is a newly built vacation rental situated in a tranquil setting opposite the Church in Claddaghduff village. The accommodation is of a very high standard and can cater for up to 12 people. Key features include: 4 en suite bedrooms, spacious living areas, a cosy sitting room and an open plan kitchen-diner. separate bathroom with jacuzzi bath Location This is a great location for families or groups visiting the West of Ireland located only 7 miles from Clifden. The property is within a 5 minutes stroll of a safe sandy beaches, pub and shops. Pony riding available locally. Golf (20kms), Ferry to Inishbofin (3kms). €1000 per week Jul/Aug . Price negotiable for Sept -June. Towels and bed linen included. Electricity and Gas metered and read on arrival and departure. Claddaghduff is situated northwest of Clifden, the gateway to Omey Island.
- published: 27 Jul 2012
- views: 86
- author: luxuryselfcatering
Road trip from Inagh Valley Co. Galway To Clifden Co. Galway
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- Duration: 3:01
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
Car Drive from Inagh Valley Co. Galway To Clifden Co. Galway, Republic of Ireland....www.vidireland.com
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Car Drive from Inagh Valley Co. Galway To Clifden Co. Galway, Republic of Ireland....www.vidireland.com
- published: 05 Nov 2012
- views: 12
- author: Joseph O'Loughlin
Travelling to Clifden, Ireland.wmv
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- Duration: 4:42
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
"Where your treasure is, your heart will be also." An amazing walk in Clifden,Connemara.
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"Where your treasure is, your heart will be also." An amazing walk in Clifden,Connemara.
- published: 11 Oct 2012
- views: 48
- author: Giulietta Visionaria
Matty Groves (Lord Donald's Wife) - Guys Bar - Clifden
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- Duration: 4:59
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
John Durning and Shona O'Flaherty performing the song "Matty Groves" in Guys Bar, Clifden, Co. Galway, Ireland. Lyrics: A holiday, a holiday, the first one of the year Lord Donald's wife came into the church, the gospel for to hear And when the meeting it was done, she cast her eyes about And there she saw little Matty Groves, walking in the crowd "Come home with me, little Matty Groves, come home with me tonight Come home with me, little Matty Groves, and sleep with me till light" "Oh, I can't come home, I won't come home and sleep with you tonight By the rings on your fingers I can tell you are Lord Donald's wife" "'Tis true I am Lord Donald's wife, Lord Donald's not at home He's out in the far cornfields bringing the yearlings home" And a servant who was standing by and hearing what was said He swore Lord Donald he would know before the sun would set And in his hurry to carry the news, he bent his breast and ran And when he came to the broad millstream, he took off his shoes and he swam Little Matty Groves, he lay down and took a little sleep When he awoke, Lord Donald was standing at his feet Saying "How do you like my feather bed and how do you like my sheets How do you like my lady who lies in your arms asleep?" "Oh, it's well I like your feather bed and it's well I like your sheets But it's better I like your lady fair who lies in my arms asleep" "Then get up, get up," Lord Donald cried, "get up as quick as you can It will never be said in this fair land that I ...
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John Durning and Shona O'Flaherty performing the song "Matty Groves" in Guys Bar, Clifden, Co. Galway, Ireland. Lyrics: A holiday, a holiday, the first one of the year Lord Donald's wife came into the church, the gospel for to hear And when the meeting it was done, she cast her eyes about And there she saw little Matty Groves, walking in the crowd "Come home with me, little Matty Groves, come home with me tonight Come home with me, little Matty Groves, and sleep with me till light" "Oh, I can't come home, I won't come home and sleep with you tonight By the rings on your fingers I can tell you are Lord Donald's wife" "'Tis true I am Lord Donald's wife, Lord Donald's not at home He's out in the far cornfields bringing the yearlings home" And a servant who was standing by and hearing what was said He swore Lord Donald he would know before the sun would set And in his hurry to carry the news, he bent his breast and ran And when he came to the broad millstream, he took off his shoes and he swam Little Matty Groves, he lay down and took a little sleep When he awoke, Lord Donald was standing at his feet Saying "How do you like my feather bed and how do you like my sheets How do you like my lady who lies in your arms asleep?" "Oh, it's well I like your feather bed and it's well I like your sheets But it's better I like your lady fair who lies in my arms asleep" "Then get up, get up," Lord Donald cried, "get up as quick as you can It will never be said in this fair land that I ...
- published: 02 Jul 2012
- views: 173
- author: Chaltimbanque
The Liar - Mick McNamara - Lowry's Bar in Clifden
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- Duration: 6:04
- Updated: 01 Sep 2012
Mick McNamara performing the song known as "The Liar" (the song was especially requested) in Lowry's Bar, Clifden, County Galway, Ireland at the end of June 2012. Mick was backed up by John G Walsh (accordeon) and Martin Conroy (guitar). Brilliant song. Oh, and you get a bonus song as well! Enjoy! ^^ Lyrics: I was born about ten thousand years ago In Bellmullet in the County of Mayo It was me that chased the vermin, while St. Patrick preached the sermon And I'll whoop the man that says it isn't so Singing rightful too-ra-laddie too-ra-lee You'll never find a bigger liar than me And you might search until you tire, you'll never find a nicer liar I've been lying since the dawn of history Now I saw Eve take the apple from the tree She came over and she offered it to me Well I turned and I said, "Madam, go try your luck with Adam I'm going home to have me fish and chips for tea." Then I saw Delilah cuttin' Samson's hair She clipped away until his head was bare When he couldn't run away, she married him next day And they opened up a barber shop in Clare Singing rightful too-ra-laddie too-ra-lee You'll never find a better liar than me And you might search until you tire, you'll never find a bigger liar I've been lying since the dawn of history Now back in World War II I saw them all I saw Roosevelt and Churchill and De Gaulle But Jesus Christ! I nearly fainted, I was having my house painted There was Hitler hanging paper in the hall Singing rightful too-ra-laddie too-ra-lee You ...
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Mick McNamara performing the song known as "The Liar" (the song was especially requested) in Lowry's Bar, Clifden, County Galway, Ireland at the end of June 2012. Mick was backed up by John G Walsh (accordeon) and Martin Conroy (guitar). Brilliant song. Oh, and you get a bonus song as well! Enjoy! ^^ Lyrics: I was born about ten thousand years ago In Bellmullet in the County of Mayo It was me that chased the vermin, while St. Patrick preached the sermon And I'll whoop the man that says it isn't so Singing rightful too-ra-laddie too-ra-lee You'll never find a bigger liar than me And you might search until you tire, you'll never find a nicer liar I've been lying since the dawn of history Now I saw Eve take the apple from the tree She came over and she offered it to me Well I turned and I said, "Madam, go try your luck with Adam I'm going home to have me fish and chips for tea." Then I saw Delilah cuttin' Samson's hair She clipped away until his head was bare When he couldn't run away, she married him next day And they opened up a barber shop in Clare Singing rightful too-ra-laddie too-ra-lee You'll never find a better liar than me And you might search until you tire, you'll never find a bigger liar I've been lying since the dawn of history Now back in World War II I saw them all I saw Roosevelt and Churchill and De Gaulle But Jesus Christ! I nearly fainted, I was having my house painted There was Hitler hanging paper in the hall Singing rightful too-ra-laddie too-ra-lee You ...
- published: 02 Jul 2012
- views: 322
- author: Chaltimbanque
photo: AP / Mohamed Sheikh Nor
12 Jan 2013
Helicopter raid fails to rescue agent 'Denis Allex' from Islamist group al-Shabaab, as French combat pilot killed in Mali. French secret service hostage 'Denis Allex' pictured in Somalia in October 2012. Photograph. SITE Monitoring Service/AFP/Getty Images. A French hostage and two French soldiers have been killed during a failed secret service rescue mission in Somalia ... The group said it had also captured a wounded French commando ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)
photo: US Navy / MCS2 Gretchen Albrecht
13 Jan 2013
The draft version of the US National Climate Assessment, released on Friday, makes remarkable reading – not just for Americans but for all humanity. Put together by a special panel of more than 240 scientists, the federally commissioned report reveals that the US is already reeling under the impact of global warming ... Nor is there any doubt about the cause of these rising temperatures ... A bitter struggle lies ahead ... Sender's name ... ....(size: 6.2Kb)
photo: AP / Remy de la Mauviniere
11 Jan 2013
The executions of three Kurdish women in Paris have sparked questions over the motives for the high-level assassinations. FRANCE 24 asks Kendal Nezan, president of the Kurdish Institute in Paris, for his views on the mysterious murders. By Ségolène ALLEMANDOU (text). ... Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Soylemez were found shot dead inside the Kurdish Institute of Paris. Screen grab of Firatnews ... France 24 ... Kendel Nezan ... FRANCE 24 ... ....(size: 9.7Kb)
photo: AP / Jacques Brinon
11 Jan 2013
PARIS/BAMAKO (Reuters) - France's armed forces began a military intervention in Mali on Friday to help the government stem a push south by Islamist rebels who control much of the north, President Francois Hollande said. Women hold banners urging national talks to end the political paralysis in the south of Mali, in the capital Bamako January 10, 2013. REUTERS/Francois Rihouay ... The U.N ... REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE ... Related Stories. ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)
photo: AP / NSW Rural Fire Service, Kerry Lawrence
12 Jan 2013
Australian firefighters are continuing to tackle more than 100 bushfires, which have gutted houses and thousands of hectares of land. Officials say temperatures are lower than feared, but gusty winds are making it hard to contain the blazes in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. Six people have been treated for heat exposure, but nobody has died ... ....(size: 1.8Kb)
Irish Times
05 Jan 2013
FIONA GARTLAND and ANNE LUCEY. While local authorities have begun a mass shredding of Christmas trees, some novel alternatives for disposal are available in parts of the country ... Galway County Council will accept trees from Monday, January 7th, until the 14th at 14 sites including the waste water treatment plant, Prospect, in Athenry, Canal Drive in Ballinasloe, Ball Alley, Beach Road, Clifden, and the council yard, Portumna ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)
BBC News
01 Jan 2013
To the outside world Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their family seemed the embodiment of domestic bliss, but the reality was very different, writes historian Jane Ridley. The marriage between the two first cousins - the young Queen and the clever, handsome German prince - was a love match ... When Bertie was 19, he spent time training with the army in Ireland and a prostitute named Nellie Clifden was smuggled into his bed ... ....(size: 8.0Kb)
noodls
19 Dec 2012
(Source. Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council). Release Date. 18/12/2012. The High Court of Justice has now issued the full written judgement setting out the judge's reasons for dismissing the challenge against the Council's decisions on the future of the Clifden Site. This confirms the Judge's findings that the Council's original decisions were lawful and that its consultation process was in no way misleading ... (noodl....(size: 4.0Kb)
Stuff
08 Dec 2012
Scaffolding has gone up on the Clifden Suspension Bridge as restoration work on the historic structure gets under way. The 111.5 metre bridge is the longest suspension bridge in New Zealand. It was opened in 1899. Managed by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust and registered as a Category 1 Historic Place, the bridge was closed after an inspection report identified structural deficiencies in 2010 ... Ad Feedback. - © Fairfax NZ News. ....(size: 2.3Kb)
Irish Times
08 Dec 2012
MICHAEL VINEY. ANOTHER LIFE. The sight of goldfinches for sale in a Dublin market began more than 50 years of writing ... Among them, I assume, are the goldfinches we gloried in all summer as they raised young on the acre ... ... Clifden and Environs is by Gary Brow, a former surgeon, who, retiring to the west to grow vegetables for his family, was shown a “secret” walled garden in a local forest ... ....(size: 6.7Kb)
Irish Times
08 Dec 2012
12. Essential reading. Kevin Barry. photographs. alan betson and bryan o'brienEssential reading. Harry Clifton. photographs. alan betson and bryan o'brien. BOOKS OF THE YEAR ... John Banville ... John Boyne ... Wonderful ... ... Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill’s gorgeous book on the history of Clifden, A Colony of Strangers ( connemaragirlpublications.com) would make a treasured Christmas gift for anyone who’s interested in the Irish west ... ....(size: 28.3Kb)
noodls
04 Dec 2012
Ends ... 1919 - Alcock & Brown landed in Clifden having successfully completed the first ever non-stop transatlantic flight; 1928 - Colonel James Fitzmaurice from Dublin co-piloted the Bremen which made the first east to west crossing of the Atlantic, taking off from Baldonnel Aerodrome on 12 April 1928; 1930s and 1940s - Foynes played a critical role as the hub of aviation activity between Europe and the US during this period ... Ends....(size: 23.0Kb)
Irish Times
30 Nov 2012
A businessman told the High Court he was trapped under the body of a dead pilot for two hours after a small aircraft crashed when trying to land at an airport in Connemara ... ���The plane was pushing on my head I could not breathe. I felt my strength going ... Two deaths�� ... Mr Barry, a father of three, of Clifden, Co Galway, has sued various parties in relation to the crash in proceedings before the court for assessment of damages only ... ....(size: 2.7Kb)
Irish Times
21 Nov 2012
��INE McMAHON. Minister for Justice Alan Shatter is to reduce the size of the Reserve Defence Force and cut its funding by 50 per cent following a value-for-money report ... Sixteen reserve facilities will be retained at Letterkenny, Sligo, Cavan, Boyle, Castlebar, Mullingar, Navan, Bray, Clifden, Ennis, Tralee, Mallow, Templemore, Waterford, Wexford and Skibbereen ... The reserve force is designed to have 9,652 personnel ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)
noodls
16 Nov 2012
Release Date. 16/11/2012. Richmond Council is today delighted that the High Court of Justice has ruled that the Council's decision on the future of the Clifden Site is lawful. In May the Council's Cabinet agreed to a proposal by the RC Dioceses of Westminster and Southwark that the Council-owned Clifden Site should be leased as the site for a new Catholic voluntary-aided secondary school and a Catholic primary school ... What are these?....(size: 4.6Kb)
Stuff
05 Nov 2012
The Clifden bridge, closed in April 2010 after an inspection revealed structural deficiencies, has been entered into the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand heritage register ... The Clifden suspension bridge is about 15 kilometres north of Tuatapere and ......(size: 1.4Kb)
The Guardian
21 Oct 2012
From proper locals to smart speakeasys, OFM readers' choices from around Britain. 69 Colebrooke Row. Photograph. Katherine Rose for the Observer Food Monthly. LONDON. The Nightjar. Tucked away but well worth tracking down to experience a 1930s-themed night out. 129 City Road, EC1V 1JB; 020 7253 4101, barnightjar.com. Mark's Bar. The unique apothecary cocktail bar is one of the main draws for last year's winner ... Hausbar ... The Lord Clifden ... Pepper....(size: 4.2Kb)
The Columbus Dispatch
21 Oct 2012
Connect With Us. The Bottom Line. Toys R Us has extended its free layaway program through Dec. 16. Current home-delivery subscribers may add Digital D, 24/7 E-Edition and unlimited premium Dispatch.com access, for a . Or, you can choose a digital-only subscription for unlimited access to the E-Edition via computer and iPad. Delaware County. 43015 ... 78 Bernard Ave.; Michelle L ... 396 Clifden Court; Don Maslouski and Kathy Maslouski; $170,000 ... S ... ....(size: 45.4Kb)
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| Coordinates: 53°29′00″N 10°01′00″W / 53.4833°N 10.0167°W / 53.4833; -10.0167Coordinates: 53°29′00″N 10°01′00″W / 53.4833°N 10.0167°W / 53.4833; -10.0167 | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | County Galway |
| Elevation | 50 m (160 ft) |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Urban | 1,355 |
| • Rural | 1,929 |
| Irish Grid Reference | L655510 |
Clifden (Irish: An Clochán, meaning "bee-hive cell"[1]) is a town on the coast of County Galway, Ireland and being Connemara's largest town, it is often referred to as "the Capital of Connemara". It is located on the Owenglen River where it flows into Clifden Bay. The town is linked to Galway city by the N59 and is a popular tourist destination for those touring Connemara.
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History[link]
The town was founded at the start of the 19th century by John D'Arcy (1785–1839)[1] who lived in Clifden Castle (which is now a ruin that can be seen from the Sky Road west of Clifden). The Sky Road in Clifden is one of the best tourist attractions in the entire Connemara region. The circular route is 11 km long and takes you out west from Clifden.[2]
It is the birth place of Jon Riley, Saint Patrick's Battalion's commander, who fought for Mexico in the Mexican-American War the 19th century.
Clifden gained prominence in the early 1900s when Guglielmo Marconi built his first high power transatlantic long wave wireless telegraphy station four miles (6 km) south of the town to minimize the distance to its sister station in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. The first point-to-point fixed wireless service connecting Europe with North America opened for public service with the transmission of 10,000 words on 17 October 1907 and ceased operation on 25 July 1922 after suffering serious damage in the Irish Civil War. Transatlantic wireless service [3] formerly provided by the Clifden station was transferred to the more modern Marconi wireless station near Waunfawr, Wales. At peak times, over 400 people had been employed by the Clifden wireless station, but none more famous than Jack Phillips, who later died as the heroic chief Radio Operator on the Titanic.
Clifden is the main town in Connmemara therefore it is home to a range of services. The HQ for the Connemara Garda service is in Clifden and the main Fire Station for Connemara is in Clifden. Clifden is also home to the Connemara All Blacks, which is the rugby team that is prominent in Connemara.
Clifden is near the landing place (53°26′N 10°01′W / 53.433°N 10.017°W / 53.433; -10.017) of the first transatlantic flight by Alcock and Brown on 15 June 1919. The plane crashlanded in Derrygimla bog, close to Marconi's transatlantic wireless station.
In "the burning of Clifden" in 1921, 14 suspected Republican homes were burnt by the Black and Tans.
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| Dialing Code: | 095 |
| Coast Guard: | channels 16,26 and 67 |
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Transport[link]
Road[link]
The N59 road from Galway (77 km away) to Westport, County Mayo (64 km) passes through the town.
Coach[link]
Regular coach services are provided by Bus Éireann and Citylink, connecting Clifden with Galway city. Some bus services operate through Oughterard, to the south of Lough Corrib, while others operate via Clonbur / Headford to the north of Lough Corrib.
Rail[link]
From 1895 to 1935 Clifden was the western terminus of the Midland Great Western Railway. Clifden station was opened on 1 July 1895, but finally closed on 29 April 1935.[4] The station was later converted into the Station House Hotel, flats, shops and a museum.
Events[link]
- The Connemara Pony Show, organized by the Connemara Pony Breeders Society and held on the third Thursday in August since 1924.
- Clifden Community Arts Week in late September offers poetry reading, lectures, recitals and traditional music. The festival was first started by teachers in Clifden Community School in 1979 to bring creative arts into the classroom.
- Omey Island Races: horse racing on the beach.
- Clifden Regatta.
- In honor of Jon Riley, on 12 September the town of Clifden flies the Mexican flag.
Literature[link]
James Mylet's debut novel Lex is set in Clifden. The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom reviewed the novel as being set in "the fictional town of Clifden on Ireland's west coast", leading to at least one letter pointing out this inaccurate statement.[5]
Religion[link]
Clifden lies within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tuam and the Church of Ireland Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry, and its Omey Union Parish. Clifden has two churches: St. Joseph's (Roman Catholic) and Christ Church (Church of Ireland).
Places of interest[link]
- Twelve Bens
- Connemara National Park
- Kylemore Abbey a neo-gothic large country house built in 1868 by Mitchell Henry, in memory of his wife Margaret. Purchased by Benedictine nuns in 1920.
- Ballynahinch Castle sporting estate of the Martin family, one of whose better known members is 'Humanity Dick' founder of the RSPCA.
- Sky Road an 11 km drive along Clifden Bay and Streamstown Bay rising more than 150 m above sea level at Slyne Head, with views of the Atlantic, Clifden Castle, coast-guard station, the islands of Inishturk and Turbot and the town.
- Derrygimlagh Bog: a natural wilderness of blanket bog 6 km south of Clifden and the site of the Alcock and Brown crash-landing and the Marconi transatlantic wireless station.
- Inishbofin
- Slyne Head Lighthouse
See also[link]
- List of firsts in aviation
- List of towns and villages in Ireland
- List of RNLI stations
- Ballyconneely
- Omey Island
- Goulane
- Jon Riley
Notes[link]
^ A "bee-hive cell" is small, free standing stone dwelling, circular in shape, constructed of stone and corbelled until it closes at the top. It is usually associated with hermits and monks.
References[link]
- ^ Landed Estates, Family: D'Arcy (Kiltullagh & Clifden Castle)
- ^ Clifden and The Sky Road
- ^ The Clifden Station of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph System, Scientific American, Nov 23, 1907
- ^ "Clifden station". Railscot - Irish Railways. http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-16.
- ^ "How are things in Gloccamara?". Irish Independent. Retrieved on 18 June 2011.
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| Ryan Tubridy | |
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 Ryan Tubridy in Bray on his last day of presenting The Tubridy Show (2010). |
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| Born | (1973-05-28) 28 May 1973 (age 39) Dublin, Ireland |
| Residence | Dublin |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Education | Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin (UCD) |
| Occupation | Broadcaster, writer |
| Employer | Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) |
| Agent | Noel Kelly[1][2] |
| Known for | The Full Irish and Tubridy on RTÉ 2fm; The Tubridy Show on RTÉ Radio 1; All Kinds of Everything, Tubridy Tonight and The Late Late Show on RTÉ One |
| Salary | €366,867 (2007)[3] €533,333 (2008)[3] €519,667 (2009)[4] |
| Spouse | Anne Marie Power (separated) |
| Partner | Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin |
| Children | Ella and Julia[5] |
| Website | |
| http://www.ryantubridy.ie/ | |
Ryan Tubridy (born 28 May 1973),[6] affectionately known as "Tubs",[7][8][9] is an Irish broadcaster and writer, a presenter of live shows on radio and television in Ireland. He has been described as "one of Ireland's most gifted broadcasters"[10] One of the youngest presenters on the books of Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ),[11] he is the current host of long-running TV chat programme The Late Late Show and a weekday morning radio show called Tubridy.[12][13] He was also a pioneering member of the Twitterati before he departed in August 2011.[14]
Tubridy previously presented RTÉ 2fm breakfast radio show The Full Irish, which at its end was the second most popular[citation needed] radio programme in Ireland. For five seasons from 2004 until 2009, he presented the Saturday night TV chat show Tubridy Tonight on RTÉ One.[15][16] He later left RTÉ 2fm for a number of years to present weekday morning radio programme The Tubridy Show on RTÉ Radio 1,[17] but returned to RTÉ 2fm in 2010 to present his current weekday morning radio show from 09:00 to 11:00, following the termination of The Gerry Ryan Show with the presenter's sudden death.[18][19] He has also hosted the Rose of Tralee contest on two occasions.
More recently, Tubridy has embarked on a career as a writer, having composed JFK in Ireland, a profile of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland as part of a two-book deal with HarperCollins.[20][21] He is currently working on a second book.[22] Aside from broadcasting and writing, Tubridy's intense passion for U.S. politics is common knowledge,[21] as, more recently, is a romance with Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin,[23][24] a romance which has been dubbed "RyBhinn".[25]
Tubridy has several wins and nominations at the Meteor Awards to his name, dating from his time as host of The Full Irish. The broadcaster was named one of ten "icons" of 21st century Ireland by the Sunday Tribune's Derek O'Connor in 2008.[26] He was awarded Dubliner of the Year by The Dubliner magazine in 2009.
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Early life[link]
Tubridy was born in Blackrock, Dublin, in May 1973, one of five children. His mother is called Catherine.[5] A maternal uncle was an MEP, while another maternal uncle, David Andrews, was an Irish Government minister. His first cousin is Barry Andrews, a former T.D. and former Minister of State. One of Tubridy's maternal ancestors was revealed on Who Do You Think You Are? to be King Edward III of England, at odds with the Republican background of his family.
Tubridy was educated at Blackrock College[27] and University College Dublin (UCD), where he studied for his Bachelor of Arts. He was a member of the Kevin Barry Cumann of Fianna Fáil while in UCD and was active in the UCD Students' Union and Belfield FM, as well as the Dún Laoghaire branch of Ógra Fianna Fáil. His brother Garret ran unsuccessfully in the 2009 local elections for Dublin City Council. During the election campaign Ryan was advised not to make public appearances with his brother.[28] Two of his first cousins, Barry Andrews and Chris Andrews, were formerly Fianna Fáil TDs, with the former being a Minister of State for Children in the coalition government of Brian Cowen. His grandfather, Todd Andrews, was a prominent associate of Fianna Fáil founder Éamon de Valera and held a number of posts in semi-state companies.[citation needed] On the Tubridy side of the family, Ryan is the grandson of TD Seán Tubridy.
One source[21] says that Tubridy is a nephew of Dorothy (Dot) Tubridy née Lawlor, widow of Captain Michael Tubridy (d.1954).[29] Michael Tubridy was an international showjumper from Moore Street, Kilrush, Co. Clare.[30] Dot Tubridy, an anthropologist, has long enjoyed[citation needed] a reputation as 'friend of the Kennedys'.
Radio career[link]
RTÉ[link]
Tubridy started in broadcasting at the age of 12, reviewing books for the RTÉ 2FM show Poporama presented by Ruth Buchanan.[31] He earned £25 per show. After leaving college he became a runner in RTÉ, initially working on The Gerry Ryan Show as maker of tea and coffee.[32] Tubridy said at the death of Gerry Ryan that “The moment I set foot in RTÉ, he put his wing around me and said: ‘I like what you do. I like what you are. I’m going to look after you.’”[1] He credits Ryan for his kindness "in a place which is so full of ego and bizarre resentment".[32] Tubridy was also influenced by the "nerd made good" style of British broadcaster Chris Evans.[33]
Later he worked as a reporter for Today with Pat Kenny, as well as occasionally presenting the radio news show Five Seven Live. In the summer of 1999 Tubridy presented Morning Glory on RTÉ Radio 1 and in July 2000 he moved to The Sunday Show. From 2002 until 2005 he presented RTÉ 2fm's morning breakfast show, The Full Irish.[34] The move to the morning by Head of 2fm John Clarke was seen as risky, with station insiders disapproving and Hot Press publishing a double page editorial with the headline "station in turmoil".[35] Within one year its ratings had soared and Tubridy was given a major award.[35] When The Full Irish ended it was the second most popular radio programme in Ireland, after Morning Ireland.[11] Clarke later described moving Tubridy to the morning as the best decision of his 25-year career in radio.[35]
In 2006 Tubridy commenced presenting The Tubridy Show, on weekday mornings on RTÉ Radio 1.
He previously wrote a column for the Sunday World in which he expressed amongst other things his support for Barack Obama, "one of his favourite singers" Fionn Regan and the success of Kenny Egan, a silver medal winning boxer at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[36] He later interviewed Said Obama, the uncle of U.S. President Barack Obama for The Tubridy Show. Tubridy has hinted that he would consider making the move to new pastures if the opportunity arose.[37]
After the death of Gerry Ryan, Tubridy's friend and colleague, Turbridy was the subject of rumours by various newspapers that he would be succeeding him in the RTÉ 2fm slot, becoming RTÉ's top earner with a salary of €1 million.[38] On 10 June 2010, RTÉ confirmed that Tubridy would in fact fill that slot from August 2010,[39] presenting a programme from 09:00 to 11:00. His salary was to remain unchanged.[40] In an RTÉ press release, he was quoted as saying: "In my new role on RTÉ 2fm I will be presenting a programme that will be very different, with a different time slot, and a different style of presenting."[41] To allow for presenting The Late Late Show, his show is only 2 two hours long, compared to the 3 hours that Gerry Ryan's show lasted.[40]
However JNLR figures released in July 2011 reveal Tubridy has lost over 110,000 listeners since the move.[42]
After finishing The Tubridy Show on 16 July 2010,[43] he began presenting Tubridy on RTÉ 2fm on 20 August 2010, surprising listeners by starting the programme three days earlier that what was originally scheduled for 23 August.[44] His first guest on the programme was Bono.[45] His RTÉ Radio 1 slot was filled by John Murray.[43] Tubridy became synonymous with declining listenership figures, a 40% collapse of which by 2011 coincided with increased listenership figures for its rival The Ray D'Arcy Show.[46][47][48]
In May 2011, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland upheld a complaint against Tubridy who called a paedophile a "monster" and "creature" and then said: "From what I gather these guys cannot be quote unquote cured ... only one way to deal with them, and that's physiological ... these guys should have bits taken off."[49]
BBC[link]
In July 2010, Tubridy's agent Noel Kelly confirmed that Tubridy was offered by the BBC to present a summer filler for Jonathan Ross's BBC Radio 2 programme. He turned down the offer citing preparations for The Late Late Show and after the death of Gerry Ryan.[50] However, it was confirmed that Tubridy would present the slot for 8 weeks from 23 July 2011, covering for Ross' replacement, Graham Norton.[51]
Tubridy sacrificed his Christmas holidays in 2011 to work for the BBC again, this time as a replacement for Ken Bruce on Radio 2.[52][53] Amid constant media criticism related to declining listenership and viewership figures, he has been receiving support from Chris Evans and has been defended by Vincent Browne.[8][54][55][56]
RTÉ pay-cut controversy[link]
In 2008 Tubridy was the RTÉ presenter on the fourth highest salary, having received a 50 per cent increase in his salary from the previous year.[3]
Tubridy attracted criticism for his refusal to take a pay-cut in early 2009 even when colleagues such as Pat Kenny and Marian Finucane approved of their own salary cuts.[57] He was soon the subject of a hate campaign on social networking site Facebook[58] but later opted to take a 10% pay cut.[59][60][61] He is not an RTÉ employee, but is a contract employee and pays himself €283,756 a year from his production company, Tuttle Productions.[62] He admits to not feeling particularly guilty about his €500,000 salary.[63]
Television career[link]
Main articles: All Kinds of Everything (TV series), Rose of Tralee (festival), Tubridy Tonight, and The Late Late Show
Tubridy hosted the EsatBT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition at the Royal Dublin Society, in 2003 and 2004. Also in 2003 and 2004, he presented the Rose of Tralee competition.[64] In 2003 and 2004 he presented a game show called All Kinds of Everything. He presented the RTÉ People in Need Telethon in 2004 and 2007.
In October 2004, Tubridy Tonight began, his own live Saturday night chat show seen as a successor to Kenny Live (formerly Saturday Night Live). Tubridy's colleague Pat Kenny (former presenter of Kenny Live and then host of The Late Late Show) queried Tubridy's fast-paced lifestyle and recommended he slow down.[65] Tubridy initially announced his intention to take over the hosting of The Late Late Show from Pat Kenny but he later stated that he would remain as host of Tubridy Tonight, describing it as his "Jim'll Fix It job" and "little fun-size legacy".[66]
It was announced on 11 May 2009 that Tubridy would indeed succeed Pat Kenny as host of The Late Late Show.[67] He vowed to bring back Gay Byrne's "one for everybody in the audience" catchphrase, described by Will Hanafin in the Irish Independent as an attempt to "dig up more old relics than archaeologists would on an excavation", in reference to Tubridy's passion for history.[68] Tubridy said he was "very taken aback" to learn he had been selected, describing it as "a humbling honour to be asked to present such an iconic programme".[69] He described Tubridy Tonight as "quite the odyssey".[70]
Tubridy's first guest as host of The Late Late Show was then Taoiseach Brian Cowen, with the episode attracting over 1.6 million viewers.[71][72][73][74][75] His role as host allowed him to fulfill a childhood ambition — presenting The Late Late Toy Show — "I know this is the one that I always wanted. I love the fact that children are uncontaminated by the reality of adulthood".[76] His time as host has also led to clash with his guests, including Gordon Ramsay ("a bit, em, British for my liking"),[77][78] Louis Walsh (giving Jedward a "hard time" on the aforementioned edition of The Late Late Toy Show),[79] Sinéad O'Connor (the "crazy performing monkey" incident),[7][80] and Mia Farrow ("What's the matter with you anyway? Jesus!").[81] The original host of The Late Late Show, Gay Byrne, was one of Tubridy's guests on the 18 December 2009 edition of the programme.[82] In May 2011, a former director of television at RTÉ said of the The Late Late Show, “If I was back in charge of RTÉ, you wouldn’t see this utter shite on Friday night”.[83]
Also in 2009, Tubridy took part in the second series of Who Do You Think You Are? whereupon his relationship to Edward III was unearthed.[21]
In March 2012, Tubridy made his American television debut during which he discussed his book JFK in Ireland.[84] His debut was received positively by industry professionals and the millions of Americans who tuned in.[85]
Writing[link]
For more than €100,000 HarperCollins signed Tubridy as part of a two-book deal.[20] They wanted an autobiography but he persuaded them otherwise.[20] Tubridy's first book, the 302-page[86] long JFK in Ireland, was launched at the Mansion House, Dublin on 27 October 2010.[87][88] While researching the book, he discovered that Éamon de Valera had part of John F. Kennedy's speech to Dáil Éireann erased from the record after finding its content offensive.[89] Tubridy is currently working on a second book.[22]
Tubridy co-wrote the title track, "We Are Where We Are", of Paddy Cullivan's extended play, released in October 2010.[90] The writer and broadcaster commented: "Paddy is a pal and we would have conversations a lot over a pint of Guinness".[87] He also sang a song on The Late Late Toy Show in 2010, becoming the first host to do such a thing.[91]
Philanthropy[link]
Tubridy is a UNICEF ambassador.[92] His love of reading means he has a special interest in childhood literacy.[93] He launched a breast cancer initiative in May 2009.[94] The jumper he wore on his debut as host of The Late Late Toy Show was later auctioned for victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on the radio programme Money.[95][96] The jumper raised €1,050.[97] On 25 October 2011, Tubridy dressed up for Barnardos as Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz and broadcast Tubridy from Teresa's House in County Wexford.[98] On 2 November 2011, he was MC and guest of honour for the launch of the Irish Film Archive Preservation Fund at the Irish Film Institute.[99] The following month he helped switch on the Christmas lights on Grafton Street.[100] The jumper he wore on The Late Late Toy Show on 2 December 2011 was donated to the fund for artist Alexandra Trotsenko on the radio programme Liveline.[101] He has also been associated with the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul Toy Appeal.[102]
Personal life[link]
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Tubridy met his wife, the producer Anne Marie Power at RTÉ in 1997 when he spotted her in a recording studio. He later spoke of the moment they met:
She was going in to make a programme, I was going out. My head turned and my life changed. I pursued her relentlessly. She used to sashay down the corridor and I was quite taken by her. She was very erudite and she made documentaries on flamenco. She was much brighter than I am and continues to be, which isn't that hard really if you dig deep enough, and I asked her out.
The couple had a daughter, Ella, and later married in 2003. Tubridy proposed in the Abbeyglen Hotel (a "favourite haunt" of his) in Clifden, County Galway. The engagement was announced in The Irish Times with the words "Ella Tubridy is delighted to announce the engagement of her parents Ryan and Anne Marie". Tubridy and Power separated in 2006.[103] They have two children,[104] Ella and Julia.[5] He
“You didn't ask permission. You didn't think about the consequences. You didn't care about the person I was with and their family, you didn't care about anything, you just cared about yourself and a grubby little cheque, and that's not right... have a bit of respect, or human decency.”
Tubridy was displeased with the paparazzi who "hid behind bushes and trees" to take photos of his romantic stroll with girlfriend Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin at Powerscourt Waterfall.[105]
Whilst host of Tubridy Tonight, the presenter spoke of the public's perception of him:
"I think I am a victim of my own image. I think it's been cultivated by others for me. I live in a very ordinary semi-detached house. People only ever see me on a Saturday night on TV and I'm in a smart suit with a book-lined backdrop so that's what they think - you're Johnny smart suit with a book-lined backdrop."
Referring to the type of woman he would like, Tubridy said:
"I like intelligence, I like a good conversation. I like elegance, I like a girl who is feminine without being vain, I like a little retro in terms of fashion and look and sprinkle it with a little sense of humour. I also love a girl who appreciates darkness. I'm a lot darker than people think - plenty of dark humour."[106]
Tubridy is/was[107] involved with Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin, a presenter of radio and television.[23][108][109][110] He expressed his dissatisfaction when photos of the couple on a stroll at Powerscourt Waterfall were used by the press and was frustrated by subsequent claims that the photos were a publicity stunt.[105] He later told the Evening Herald (in the week approaching his début as host of The Late Late Show) that Ní Shúilleabháin was "great support" and had transformed his life.[24] In 2010 he told the same newspaper she was "my rock" since the death of friend and colleague Gerry Ryan.[111]
Physical appearance[link]
Tubridy has been subject to commentary about his physical appearance. He describes himself as a "young fogey".[112] Podge and Rodge, a televised puppet chat show, commented on his "stupid awkward eyes, he reminds me of the undead" and introduced him as "South Dublin on a stick" when he appeared on their TV show.[113]
In one incident Dermot Whelan, Dave Moore and Siobhan O'Connor of radio station 98FM rewrote the Steps song "Tragedy" to include lyrics which make personal references to Tubridy before playing it on their morning radio show.[114] The song pokes fun at his famous ears as well as his hairstyle with the line: "His ears stand up like the FA Cup, he sits in his chair chatting with Holy Communion-style hair".[114] Tubridy himself rang the show to congratulate Dermot, Dave and Siobhan on their achievement of "taking the mick out of him" with a song of "pure ego" that caused him to "burst out laughing when I saw it".[114] He was less pleased when Gordon Ramsay, appearing as a guest on The Late Late Show, poked fun at his ears and weight; Tubridy later remarked on The Ray D'Arcy Show: "I thought he was a bit, em, British for my liking. I won’t be buying the books [Ramsay was promoting]. In fact, I didn't take the free one".[77][78]
List of interests[link]
Tubridy supports Liverpool F.C.[115] His favourite films include The Queen[116] and Frost/Nixon.[116] One of his heroes is the British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough; prior to interviewing him on Tubridy Tonight in March 2009, he spoke of how he "grew up watching his nature programmes".[117] Noted for his passions for such things as lounge music,[118] US politics (he took time off work to cheer on Barack Obama in the 2008 US presidential election), Inspector Morse box sets (whom he described as "the morose and melancholic opera lover who deals with an inordinate amount of bloodshed in Oxford"), "real turf, the John Hinde donkey post card kind"[119] and buying out-of-print history books on Amazon.com, Tubridy also found Gerry Ryan humorous.[115] Appearing on Seoige and O'Shea on 16 April 2008, Tubridy proclaimed his top three books of the previous year as The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Christine Falls by Benjamin Black and Exit Ghost by Philip Roth.[120] He also likes the fictional character Ross O'Carroll-Kelly.[121]
Views on the Internet[link]
Tubridy has expressed his disdain of self-described "anonymous cowards on the internet", those who "grab [...] under the shadowy cover of names like Catman or Twenty Rothmans or whatever", and believes Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia project, is "a fact-free bull run for any passing eejit to come along and add whatever fact or fiction they desire and up it goes onto the site". He prefers books instead.[122]
Tubridy is a former user of Twitter, and, with more than 60,000 followers,[123] was described by the Irish Independent as "one of Ireland's most famous Twits".[124] He left the social networking and microblogging service on 9 August 2011, posting a late night farewell to his followers: "Dear Twitter, this is my last tweet. It's been lots of fun but I must leave. No drama, just not enough time. Thanks and take care. #goodbye. The Tubridy Radio Show and Late Late Show will have well attended Twitter accounts as I leave this curious social medium."[14][125]
Awards[link]
- Meteor Awards
Tubridy won the Best Irish DJ category at the 2004 Meteor Awards for his breakfast show, The Full Irish.[126][127]
| Year | Nominated work | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Ryan Tubridy | Best Irish DJ | Won |
| 2005 | Ryan Tubridy | Best Irish DJ | Nominated |
- TV Now Awards
Tubridy was named Best Male TV Presenter at the TV Now Awards in 2009.[104]
He collected the award for "Favourite Irish TV Show" from girlfriend Ní Shúilleabháin, won by The Late Late Show at the 2010 awards.[6]
| Year | Nominated work | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Ryan Tubridy | Best Male TV Presenter | Won |
| 2010 | The Late Late Show | Favourite Irish TV Show | Won |
- Other awards
- 2009—Dubliner of the Year Award (1)[128]
His 19th place finish in the 2009 Remus Uomo 100 Sexiest Irish Men List made headlines when his brother Garrett unexpectedly finished ahead of him in 10th.[129]
He was named 29th most influential person of 2009 by Village.[130]
In February 2012, he came fifth in a poll to find Ireland's most desirable Valetines.[131]
He has been encased in wax and put on public display at a museum on Dublin's College Green.[132]
Tubridy is among a select number of people with their own Muppet.[133]
References[link]
- ^ a b Monaghan, Gabrielle (2 May 2010). "Gerry Ryan: 'Ireland’s cleverest interviewer’". The Sunday Times (London). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article7114094.ece. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^ Cummiskey, Gavin (24 April 2010). "Gloves off". The Irish Times. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2010/0424/1224268738638.html. Retrieved 24 April 2010. "Among others, [Bernard Dunne] is on to Noel Kelly of the celebrity management company, a stable Dunne shares with Ryan Tubridy, Gerry Ryan, Gráinne Seoige, Craig Doyle."
- ^ a b c McGreevy, Ronan (30 December 2009). "Tubridy says he dealt 'appropriately' with RTÉ requests he take pay cut". The Irish Times. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1230/1224261407828.html. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
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- ^ a b c Nolan, Lorna (28 October 2010). "Forget the book, do Aoibhinn and Ryan have new chapter?". Evening Herald (Independent News & Media). http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/forget-the-book-do-aoibhinn-and-ryan-have-new-chapter-2398311.html. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
- ^ a b Nolan, Lorna (24 May 2010). "I didn't rehearse Aoibhinn double act, says winner Tubridy". Evening Herald. http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/i-didnt-rehearse-aoibhinn-double-act-says-winner-tubridy-2192106.html. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
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- ^ a b "Ryan Tubridy may not take the abuse much longer". JOE. 30 October 2011. http://www.joe.ie/entertainment/entertainment-news/ryan-tubridy-may-not-take-the-abuse-much-longer-0017246-1. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
- ^ Ryan, Alexandra (2 December 2011). "I'll quit if ratings aren't good enough, says Tubs". Evening Herald. http://www.herald.ie/news/ill-quit-if-ratings-arent-good-enough-says-tubs-2952615.html. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
- ^ Allen, Paul (14 November 2011). "Stop whinging about RTE's high earners ... we're getting value for money". Irish Independent. http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/paul-allen-stop-whinging-about-rtes-high-earners-were-getting-value-for-money-2934003.html. Retrieved 14 November 2011. "There are very few broadcasters with the natural talent to capture the eyeballs, the ears and the hearts of a nation. We lost Terry Wogan and Eamonn Andrews to the BBC. Now we could well lose one of Ireland’s most gifted broadcasters, Ryan Tubridy."
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External links[link]
- Official website
- Ryan Tubridy's best tweets at Favstar
- Video interview at RTÉ.ie before first edition of The Late Late Show
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| Persondata | |
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| Name | Tubridy, Ryan |
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| Short description | |
| Date of birth | 1973-05-28 |
| Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland |
| Date of death | |
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Nancy Brooker Spain (13 September 1917 – 21 March 1964) was a prominent English broadcaster and journalist.
She spent much of her youth in Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne. Her father was Lieutenant-Colonel Spain, a freeman of the city and a prominent figure in local military and antiquarian affairs. He was a writer himself and appeared in a number of radio plays as well as broadcasting commentaries on Newcastle United games. Nancy's mother, Norah, was the daughter of Lucy Dorling, a sister of Isabella Beeton.
As a child, Nancy remembered pushing the future eminent journalist William Hardcastle into the Bull Park Lake on the Town Moor, where she used to learn to ride at five shillings an hour "with other little bourgeois tots".
Nancy went to Roedean School (a family tradition) where she began wearing "mannish" clothes, and developed the speaking voice which stood her in such good stead in her eventual media career. She played lacrosse for Northumberland and Durham, and hockey for the North of England, as well as acting on BBC radio, where she took over the star parts vacated by Esther McCracken. During the war, Nancy served in the WRNS on Tyneside, a period covered in her book Thank you, Nelson (1945).
Nancy Spain became a star columnist for the Daily Express, She and the News of the World in the 1950s and 1960s and made many radio broadcasts, particularly on Woman's Hour and My Word! She later appeared as a panellist on BBC TV's record review programme Juke Box Jury and in 1962 performed 'The Blaydon Races', the Victorian Tyneside song, at London's Marquee Club with Alexis Korner and Blues Incorporated. A recording of the latter was published on the album R&B from the Marquee.
Spain's scatty style of column-writing caused the Daily Express to be sued successfully for libel - twice - by Evelyn Waugh.[1] Often in the news, and tempted to marry to seem 'respectable' - her name was linked with that of Gilbert Harding - she lived openly with the editor of She, Joan Werner Laurie (Jonny), and was a friend of the famous, including Noël Coward and Marlene Dietrich. She and Joan were regulars at the Gateways club in Chelsea, London, and were widely known to be lesbians.[2]
She died, with Joan and four others, in a light aeroplane crash on her way to the Grand National and was cremated with Joan at Golders Green Crematorium, London. She left one son - publicly unacknowledged during her lifetime - Tom Carter. Noël Coward summed up: 'It is cruel that all that gaiety, intelligence and vitality should be snuffed out when so many bores and horrors are left living.'
As well as her books of memoirs, including Why I'm Not a Millionaire (1956), Nancy wrote a biography in 1948 of her relative Mrs Beeton, and a series of detective novels.[3] Rose Collis wrote a posthumous biography of the broadcaster and journalist in 1997.
Bibliography[link]
- Thank You, Nelson: London: Hutchinson: 1945.
- Mrs Beeton and Her Husband: London: Collins: 1948.
- Teach Tennant: The Story of Eleanor Tennant, the Greatest Tennis Coach in the World: London: W.Laurie: 1953.
- Why I'm Not A Millionaire: London: Hutchinson: 1956.
- A Funny Thing Happened to the Way: London: Quality Book Company: 1964.
References[link]
- Collis, Rose (1997), A Trouser-Wearing Character: The Life and Times of Nancy Spain, London: Cassell, ISBN 0-304-32879-0
- ^ Sykes, Christopher. Evelyn Waugh: a biography. Collins, 1975. ISBN 0-00-211202-7
- ^ Gardiner, Jill (2003), From The Closet to the Screen: Women of the Gateways 1945-85, London: Pandora, ISBN 0-86358-427-6
- ^ Patricia Craig and Mary Cadogan, The Lady Investigates, Oxford (1981) ISBN 0-19-281938-0 p.109
| Persondata | |
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| Name | Spain, Nancy |
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| Short description | |
| Date of birth | 13 September 1917 |
| Place of birth | |
| Date of death | 21 March 1964 |
| Place of death | |
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