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The Joe Heaney Festival of Traditional Singing kicks off in Connemara (IrishCentral)

Fri, 03 May 2013 01:42:39 PDT

By: JANE WALSH

The Joe Heaney Festival of Traditional Singing takes place this May bank holiday weekend ( May 3 - 6 ) in Carna, Connemara. This festival commemorates the life and musical legacy of the renowned ‘Sean Nós’ singer from Carna, who died in Seattle in 1984.

Ballynahinch Castle - Connemara fit for a king... (IrishCentral)

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:31:25 PST

Ballynahinch Castle, Recess, Connemara, County GalwayA stay at Ballynahinch Castle is like happening upon a finely blended Irish whiskey Sixty six years in the making and mixing of history and hospitality has resulted in damn near perfection Beautifully situated on the Owenmore river in the heart of Connemara, this former fishing and shooting lodge which once belonged to an Indian prince is completely authentic and unspoiled Beloved of generations of repeat visitors (many from just down the road in Galway) who know a good thing when they find it, it is the perfect place for lunch in the Fisherman’s Bar or a romantic break in one of the Riverside suites with four poster beds READ MORE

Escape to Delphi Mountain Resort in Connemara - spectacular scenery, excellent food and pampering in one (IrishCentral)

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:16:11 PST

Delphi Mountain Resort while little over an hour from Galway City is every bit as remote and beautiful as Machu Picchu and a whole lot easier to get to! The drive out through Connemara has to be one of the most stunning road trips in the world Big mountains, dotted with curly horned sheep under even bigger skies that change constantly in an endless play of sunlight and cloud cover Wild flowers and turf ricks line the route with the odd abandoned cottage sparking the imagination of the wannabee permanent deserter Acid green fields give way to bogs that edge deep, inky blue loughs, where lone fishermen bob up and down on wind whipped waves READ MORE

Romantic Notre Dame fan ditches Irish/Navy game to propose to girlfriend in Connemara (IrishCentral)

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:14:14 PDT

By: CATHY HAYES

A Notre Dame fan from Texas brought his girlfriend to Ireland’s most romantic castle, Kylemore Abbey, in Connemara, Galway, to propose to her, instead of attending Saturday’s Emerald Isle Classic at the Aviva Stadium.

In search of "The Quiet Man" in wild and wonderful Connemara -- Hot on the trail of the most famous Irish movie ever made (IrishCentral)

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 05:00:37 PDT

Connemara, Co GalwayYou drive out of Galway, on the Connemara road, and soon you take a step back in time as the years fall away and a strange yet familiar landscape emergesSuddenly you are in Ireland circa the late 1940s and the scenes and shots from "The Quiet Man" loom largeThe first stop is the little bridge over the river where the famous fight between John Wayne and Victor McLaglen takes place READ MORE

A beautiful spot in Connemara that is hard to beat in Ireland (IrishCentral)

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 04:17:25 PDT

By: DAITHI O SE

For those of you who don’t know me, to make a long story short I’m a TV presenter with RTÉ and the current host of the Rose of Tralee. More importantly, I’m a Kerryman!

Upcoming events: A look at what’s going on in Irish traditional music (IrishCentral)

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:13:22 PDT

If you have been following Irish dancing outside the bizarre world of competitive stepdancing where the powers that be allow wigs, overdone makeup and garish designs to dominate what is world class stepdancing underneath its masquerade aspects, you will know that a significant new (well not so new really) trend has blossomed in the past decade or soWe are talking about sean nos dancing (old style step dancing) where spontaneity and individual creativity form a close union with live Irish music playing at normal tempos in the manner that one would have discovered in Connemara or other pockets deep within the well of tradition long agoYou can find it at all the festivals and workshops for people of all ages, and this year it even became a competition as part of Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann in Cavan for the first timeThe dance form has migrated to the U READ MORE

Boat festival in Kinvara and and a hurling win to celebrate (IrishCentral)

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:34:03 PDT

It was the Cruinniú na mBád festival this weekend (‘the gathering of the boats’)The traditional sailing boats ‘hookers’, some of them 180 years old and crewed by the same families for five generations, symbolically brought the turf from Connemara to Kinvara on Saturday, as they used to do for centuries, until the 1950s when the Bedford truck took over and they ceased to trade The breeze was stiff for an exciting race on Sunday, out past Island Eddie into the choppy waters of Galway bay to turn around the buoy beyond Trácht beach In the heat of the race these large sailing boats were tilting so far into the wind they were virtually taking on water, completely exposing their colorful keels on the far side READ MORE

Dublin and Connemara get ready for Kentucky Derby (IrishCentral)

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:40:07 PST

Dublin and Connemara may shortly be in Kentucky No there won't be a massive earthquake that will move continents together rather two of the top contenders for the Kentucky Derby 2010 bear those Irish namesDublin, trained by Hall of fame trainer D,Wayne Lukas, is one of the favorites for the Run for the Roses on the first Saturday in may He recently finished a close second on his season reappearance at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas and will he heading for the Arkasas Derby there before the real thing READ MORE

Connemara moonshiners: The poitin patriots (IrishCentral)

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:00:18 PST

Published Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 9:55 AMA different era in a different and much more blandified Ireland, yet a few of the old roads still have to be followed faithfully I picked up the phone yesterday and called a certain number in Connemara, like I do every early November, and I put in my order for Christmas I don't yet know how or where I will collect my order come December, but I know my crystal consignment will be there somewhere, and I don't think it will cost me much more than €60 in my money and whatever that is nowadays in yours I must be careful hereabouts because this is an illegal transaction involving illegal acts both on my part and on the part of the seller who, to the best of my knowledge, is also the producer and distributor READ MORE