Search Results for 'Strange Boat Donor Foundation'
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Book on how Spiddal woman dealt with her only child’s death to give hope and comfort to the bereaved
A book of poems and photographs which reflect how a Co Galway mother dealt with the death of her only child is on sale nationwide.
Help build commemorative garden to organ donors
A charity fundraising golf competition will be held at Connemara Isles Golf Club this weekend to support the Strange Boat Donor Foundation.
Salthill garden will remember the ‘kindness of strangers’
In one of the strangest ironies of fate that I ever heard was the day, early 2006, when the renowned Irish singer Eleanor Shanley called into Charlie Lennon’s Cuan Recording Studios in Spiddal. Eleanor, with her distinctive, rich lyrical voice, was looking for a new song. She talked to her friend Éamonn Goggin, a sound engineer at Cuan. Éamonn’s passion was music. He loved nothing more than sharing his knowledge with friends. He enthused about a song written by Mike Scott of the Waterboys and Anthony Thistlethwaite, called ‘Strange Boat’. It was written some years ago, but it was a great song, that just needed some updating, a new look. ‘ We’re sailing on a Strange Boat/ Heading for a strange shore/ Carrying the strangest cargo / That was ever hauled aboard....’ Éamonn said it was ideally suited for Eleanor’s voice.
