islands connemara

Its many archaeological sites are evidence of a once thriving community which was devastated by famine. See a church buried in sand, a celtic well, the Hill of the Woman and ancient kitchen middens, recent archaeological excavations....

When stately Buck Mulligan stepped out of the pages of Joyce's Ulysses he was a character immortalised in a great work, but the flesh and blood person who inspired that character was, himself, a Renaissance man of no mean achievement. Oliver St. John Gogarty was an accomplished surgeon, a poet praised by no less a person than Yeats, and a wit who held court in true Oscar Wilde fashion at his homes in Dublin and in his beloved retreats at Renvyle House and Heather Island in Connemara....