Click here to read History of Connemara by Michael Gibbons; extracts from
"The Way It Was" by Paul Gannon; the History of Ballyconneely by Joe Joyce; The Clifden Workhouse in 1847 by Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill and The San Patricio Battalion: Mexico's Fighting Irish - An Historical Perspective, by historian Brian McGinn
A study in words and pictures of the traditional Irish way of life in Connemara author: Dr. D'Lynn Waldron, FRGS
www.dlwaldron.com/connemara-1.htmlThe Connemara Bus
www.galway1.ie/faq/connemara.htmRanji, Maharajah of Connemara http://tinyurl.com/5xm8rbAnyone who is interested in Connemara should keep an eye open for two documentaries about twentieth century emigration from this part of Ireland ...
"The Irishmen: Impressions of Exile" (1965) This film was directed by Philip Donnellan (1924-99) and examines the experience of Irish workers in London, focussing on a young fisherman from Carna in Connemara leaving home to work on the Victoria Line Underground excavation. Although made for the BBC, this film was never aired.
I think the other one, made this year, is called
Kings. It is an award-winning bilingual film which was adapted from Jimmy Murphy's critically-acclaimed play
The Kings Of The Kilburn High Road. The story follows a group of emigrants from Connemara reunited in Kilburn, London for the wake of their friend, found dead on the tracks of the Underground. The film has not yet been released on DVD.
Keep your eyes open for books relating to Connemara's history.
Forgetting Ireland, by Bridget Connelly, is both a history and mystery, a story of western Ireland's Connemara coast and of Graceville, a small town in western Minnesota.
http://tinyurl.com/5yjjajKathleen Villiers-Tuthill's
Patient Endurance is about the plight of paupers in Connemara at the time of the Great Famine.
http://connemaragirlpublications.com/endurance.htm
