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Play your part to grow tourism for Clew Bay
Fáilte Ireland is inviting local tourism businesses, tourism and community group members, as well as all other interested parties and individuals, to take part in a series of workshops running from Tuesday, April 9 to Tuesday, April 16 along the Mayo coast.
Space and comfort noted features of family friendly property
Property: Lakeview House, Coolagarry, Curraghboy, Co. Roscommon, N37 RW82
Achill Island RNLI pays tribute to lifeboat volunteer and friend Mattie Stafford
Achill Island RNLI has paid tribute to fellow lifeboat volunteer and friend Mattie Stafford, of Slievemore, following his untimely death.
Retired Mayo man wins €100,000 after spinning the Winning Streak wheel
A retired Mayo man has become the highest prize winner of the season on the National Lottery Winning Streak TV game show, scooping a massive €143,000.
Space and comfort are noted features of family friendly rural property
Property: Lakeview House, Coolagarry, Curraghboy, Co. Roscommon, N37 RW82
Mayo Farm Family wins the first National Farming for Nature Award
The Calvey Family from Keel has become the inaugural winners of the National Farming for Nature Award 2018.
Derek Warfield and Young Wolfe Tones to play in Achill
For over 50 years Derek Warfield has been one of Ireland’s best known ballad singers and now he has teamed up with the new generation to bring an old tradition with a young sound to his legion of fans.
‘Rather than die, the people submitted’
The Great Famine of 1845 - 49 hit Achill Island particularly hard. Given the poor quality of its soil there was little or no alternative to the potato crop which failed throughout those years. Once the severity of the calamity became apparent, and that help from the government was begrudging and insufficient, there was a sensible coming together of Protestant and Catholic clergy to try to calm and feed the people.
Six boys and the Achill Mission
In the summer of 1840 two of London’s most prolific writers and journalists, Mr and Mrs S C Hall, set out from London for an ambitious tour of Ireland. They would later publish their journey and observations in Ireland - its Scenery and Character, a best selling three volume snap-shot of Ireland, sumptuously illustrated by engravings created by the best artists of its time*. It is a treasured collector’s item today.
‘There is no place outside Hell, that enrages the Almighty more…’
A sort of panic obsessed the Archbishop of Tuam, John MacHale, when he realised the extent of the foothold gained by the uncompromising Church of Ireland evangelist Edward Nangle. Achill Island after all, was the very backyard of his immense diocese.