An Enchantment

Classical music filters through the elegant dining room as hairstylist Louise Jordan adjusts the soft golden curls of model Clara McSweeney.

Connemara

Ireland’s West is a wonder to behold. From the artistry and magic of her centuries-old stone walls that crisscross the rolling green hills to the rocky, untamed shores of the Atlantic, Connemara is a veritable feast for the senses.

To the End of the Line

The original trail route from Clifden to Galway meanders through some of the most spectacular scenery western Ireland has to offer, but the polarising isolation of Connemara’s many lakes, rivers, and mountain ranges spurred the need to build the original railway track in 1891.

Guglielmo Marconi

History allows us to look back and appreciate the enormous strides achieved by pioneers in science and technology. Sadly, stories are often forgotten, replaced by the next great advance or discovery...

CultureLucy Mashburn7 March 20172016 Issue, Connemara Life, Connemara, Guglielmo Marconi, Amanda Crowley, Marconi Company, Marconi, Marconi Project, Connemara Chamber of Commerce, Clifden Chamber of Commerce, Galway County Council Chamber, Fáilte Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way, Christopher Shannon, Archaeologist, Archaeology, Jameson Irish Whiskey Family, Irish History, Ireland, Ireland History, Ireland's Western Coast, The Wild Atlantic Way, Radio, Wireless, Radio and Wireless Communication, Communication, Nobel Prize, Physics, Electromagentic Waves, Telegraph, Telegraph Stations, Cornwall, England, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Clifden, Derrygimlagh, Technology, Marconi's Telegraph, Marconi Light Railway, Radio Station, Letterfrack, R. N. Vyvyan, C. S. Franklin, Jack Phillips, Radio Operators, Wireless Stations, Alock and Brown, Pilot Captain John ‘Jack’ Alcock, Daily Mail, Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, Connemara History, Derrygimlagh Signature Discovery Point, Anne Cleary, Denis Connolly, Historioscopes, Panoramascope, Phones, Innovators, Travellers, Inventions, Inventors

A Connemara Landmark

Near Letterfrack and Connemara National Park, just a few miles from Ireland’s western coast, the shimmering waters of Kylemore Lough act as a mirror to the impressive neo-Gothic structure known as Kylemore Abbey.

CultureMeghn Hill7 February 2017Kylemore Abbey, Victorian Walled Garden, Letterfrack, Connemara National Park, Ireland's Western Coast, Kylemore Lough, Mitchell Henry, Kylemore Estate, Benedictine Order, Gothic Church, 2015 Issue