Passages 2 Ireland

22/11/2024

Praise the Heavens! Best cinema experience in Ireland. Now, if they have films introductions complete with the lamp with the bald bulb it will be divine!

Oscar-winning actor and Corkonian Cillian Murphy and his wife, artist Yvonne McGuinness, have bought Di**le’s own Cinema Paradiso: the Phoenix. It is the only cinema in a Gaeltacht area in Ireland and Murphy recognises the important cultural role it plays in the area. “I’ve been going to see films at the Phoenix since I was a young boy on summer holidays,” Murphy said. “We want to open the doors again, expand the creative potential of the site, re-establishing its place in the cultural fabric of this unique town.”

16/09/2024

16/05/2024

Twenty five years ago I stepped into the magical world of Cloghane & Brandon and had a holiday home to stay in before my first pint was pulled at O’Connors Guesthouse 💚💛💚

Eachléim Village, Belmullet, Co Mayo.

10/05/2024

Quin & Corofin - another sweet surprise of Ireland.

FROM CHIEFTAINS TO HEALERS!

I love this photograph, it's like a vertical cross section allowing us to better imagine the interior of the original structure which is Ballymarkahan Castle near the village of Quin in County Clare. It was built in 1430 by the MacNamara family and is only one of several they built in the area. The MacNamaras were one of the most powerful clans in the Kingdom of Thomond.

The castle changed hands various times down through the centuries, both by fair means and foul, but by the start of the 1700s the MacNamaras were back in their ancestral home. Less than half a century later, however, their time at Ballymarkahan would come to an end when, in 1748, Michael MacNamara sold up and some members of the family moved to Corofin, also in County Clare. They would go on to serve as doctors there for generations. When Dr Maccon Macnamara retired in 2006 it ended 180 years of medical services by his family to the people of Corofin. 🥰

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Pic. Mike Searle for https://www.geograph.org.uk

29/03/2024

Jaysus, it caused a kerfuffull!

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29/03/2024

See you in September 🇮🇪💚🧡💚

22/03/2024

You won’t go wrong staying in a Little Bit of Heaven!

A road side view of our O'Connor's Campsite.
We have Bays with electricity and water hook up.
A designated field for Tents
Showers and toilets on site.

We are open all year around with a Bar & Restaurant on site.

21/03/2024

Ireland has had the LARGEST drop in alcohol consumption (over 20%) in the EU since the Dry January movement began in the UK in 2013. I long for the day when drunken memes about the Irish are in the past and the country is known for all of the amazing and wonderful things it has contributed to the world.

Hit me up if you’d like to hear about them!

20/03/2024

Move over Bing- Jackie’s got this!

Here's Jackie singing a classic that originally wasn't his own, but he made Danny Boy his, and he sung it better then anyone else. He proved in this song he ...

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19/01/2024

A "lost" 4,000-year-old tomb has been rediscovered on the Di**le Peninsula in Co Kerry.