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9 unusual facts about Connemara


Aloysius O'Kelly

O'Kelly lived in Concarneau, Connemara and eventually the United States, painting rural scenes in the prior and city life in New York City.

Arthur Whitten Brown

The flight from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland took place on 14 June 1919.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Smyth changed the name of the house from “Rock Hill” to “Connemara,” after his ancestral district in Ireland.

Clifden Castle

Clifden Castle is a ruined manor house west of the town of Clifden in the Connemara region of County Galway, Ireland.

Connemara Market

The Arched Gate of the Market was built subsequently and was inaugurated by Sir Connemara, Governor of Madras Presidency, when he visited Thiruvananthapuram during 1888.

Dobhar-chú

Most recently in 2003 Irish Artist Sean Corcoran and his wife claim to have witnessed a Dobhar-Chú on Omey Island in Connemara, County Galway.

Emma Eliza Regan

Emma Eliza Regan is an Irish actress, writer and dancer born and raised in Moycullen, Connemara.

Teens in the Wild

The first series, broadcast in four parts over four weeks, followed six male teenagers, each with their own individual behavioural difficulties, as they undertook a three-week activity programme at Delphi Adventure in Connemara, County Galway during September 2008.

United States Equestrian Federation

The organization also governs breed shows held in the United States for the Andalusian, Lusitano, Arabian, half-Arabian, Anglo-Arabian, Connemara, Friesian, Hackney, Morgan, American Saddlebred, National Show Horse, Paso Fino, Shetland, and Welsh breeds.


Bulmer Hobson

After his retirement in 1948, Hobson built a house near Roundstone in Connemara.

Dáithí Ó Sé

His career has included stints as a teacher, butcher, bouncer, ferry driver around the Blasket Islands, ringmaster with Duffy's Circus, singing on Charity You're a Star, surviving in remotest Connemara for Celebrities Go Wild, Livin' with Lucy, judging on The All Ireland Talent Show, and one-off presenting gigs on the likes of The Panel and Winning Streak.

Eóghan of Argyll

He may have been the Mac Somurli responsible for the death of Jordan de Exeter during a pirate raid in Connemara in 1258.

Errisbeg

Errisbeg Mountain or Errisbeg (Iorras Beag in Irish) situated at Roundstone, County Connemara, in the West of Ireland with a height of 300 m.

Gramercy Theatre

Performances included Charles Randolph-Wright's play with music, Blue starring Phylicia Rashad; Conor McPhereson's A Skull in Connemara; Speaking in Tongues with Karen Allen; and Richard Greenberg's The Dazzle.

Kevin Tighe

Tighe made an off-Broadway appearance as Mick Dowd in A Skull in Connemara, and was the eponymous tiger in the Center Theatre Group production of Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.

Kylemore

Kylemore Abbey, a Benedictine monastery on the grounds of Kylemore Castle, in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland

Lugh Delbáeth

The royal dynasty of the Delbhna Tir Dha Locha adopted the surname MacConraoi, sometimes anglicised as Conroy, still found in Connemara and other parts of County Galway, but more often as King.

Margaret Vaughan

The church is a miniature replica of Norwich Cathedral, the inside being composed mainly of green Connemara marble.

Micheál Ó Droigheaín

Following his release he became commandant in 1919, and retained this position following the reorganisation of the Connemara units by Richard Mulcahy in September 1920.

Mitchell Henry

The church is a miniature replica of Bristol Cathedral, the inside being composed mainly of green Connemara marble.

MV Argyll Flyer

She was constructed by OCEA, Les Sables-d'Olonne, France in 2001 for Aran Island Ferries, and under the name Banríon Chonamara (Queen of Connemara) provided a service to the Aran Islands in Ireland.

Na Ceannabháin Bhána

Na Ceannabháin Bhána "The Fair Canavans" is a song in slip jig time from Carna in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.

Rónán Mac Con Iomaire

Mac Con Iomaire was raised in the Connemara Gaeltacht village of An Cheathrú Rua, the eldest of three children of Tomás Mac Con Iomaire and Mairéad.

Timeline of St. John's history

1919 – St. John's was the starting point for the first non-stop transatlantic aircraft flight, by Alcock and Brown in a modified Vickers Vimy IV bomber, in June 1919, departing from Lester's Field in St. John's and ending in a bog near Clifden, Connemara, Ireland.


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