Place: Omey Island

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

home and gardens

The islands of Ireland: On a wing and a prayer at Turbot Island

Turbot Island, Co Galway, has a very important place in aviation history being the first sighted land for the very first trans-Atlantic flight by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown on June 14 and 15, 1919.

home and gardens

Islands of Ireland: The lady of the lake

home and gardens

The Islands of Ireland: Charlie’s angel on Omey Island

home and gardens

The Islands of Ireland: Island of saints and eagles

news

Hollywood stuntman and last Omey Island resident Pascal Whelan laid to rest

general

Book review: Wandering Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way

Mesmerising look at the dynamics within family

Maggie O’Farrell tells Sue Leonard that children have made her writing tougher and better. “Having children gives you a great emotional connection”

Sat, 09 Mar, 2013

Memories are made of this

Nostalgia is a great thing.

Fri, 29 Jun, 2012

Poet who talked in his letters

THE poet, Louis MacNeice died suddenly in 1963 of viral pneumonia, contracted while recording sound effects in an underground cave in Yorkshire for his last radio play, Persons from Porlock.

Sat, 14 Aug, 2010

Drowned fishermen had lost brothers at sea

Two fishermen who drowned today after being swept from their traditional currach boat into the Atlantic Ocean had each lost brothers in similar tragedies.

Tue, 21 Apr, 2009

Body found off Galway believed to be missing fisherman

A body recovered in the water off the Galway coast this afternoon is believed to be that of one of two fishermen missing off Omey Island.

Tue, 21 Apr, 2009

Don’t miss the boat on this offer

WATCHING the tides will be a new fixation for the buyer of this slice of Galway heaven: access to Omey Island off the Connemara coast is across the beach, twice a day at low tide.

Sat, 26 Apr, 2003