JOYCEAN PICS 2009
Connemara (Conamara)
Contents of This Page


  Joyce Country (Duiche Sheoigheach)
  Leenane
  Kylemore Abbey (Mainistir na Coille Moire)
  Inash Valley
  Maam Cross (An Teach Doite)
CONTENTS 2009
   1  Glasgow IASIL 2009@University of Glasgow
   2  Glasgow (Glaschu) and Joyce
   3  Glasgow (Glaschu): miscellanea
   4  Edinburgh (Dun Eideann)
   5  New Lanark, South Lanarkshire
   6  Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park (Pairc Naiseanta Loch Laomainn is nan Troisichean)
   7  Oban (An t-Oban)
   8  Kilchurn Castle, Argyll and Bute
   9  Inveraray Castle (Caisteal Inbhir Aora), Argyll and Bute
  10  Glen Coe (Gleann Comhann), the Central Highlands
  11  Loch Lochy (Loch Lochaidh) and Loch Oich (Loch Omhaich) of the Caledonian Canal
  12  Loch Ness (Loch Nis) of the Caledonian Canal
  13  Inverness (Inbhir Nis)
  14  Dublin (Baile Atha Cliath) and Joyce
  15  Dublin (Baile Atha Cliath): miscellanea
  16  Moneygall (Muine Gall), County Offaly
  17  Limerick (Luimneach)
  18  The Burren (Boireann), County Clare
  19  Doolin (Dulainn), County Clare
  20  The Cliffs of Moher (Aillte an Mhothair), County Clare
  21  Connemara (Conamara)
  22  London and Joyce
  23  London: miscellanea
  24  Bognor Regis, West Sussex
  25  Sidlesham, West Sussex
  26  Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

Connemara (Conamara), Ireland
5 August, 2009


  Connemara (Irish: Conamara), which derives from Conmhaicne Mara (meaning: descendants of Con Mhac, of the sea), is a district in the west of Ireland consisting of a broad peninsula between Killary Harbour and Kilkieran Bay in the west of County Galway or south west Connacht.  The Conmhaicne Mara were a branch of the Conmhaicne, an early tribal grouping that had a number of branches located in different parts of Connacht.  As this branch of Conmhaicne was located by the sea they became known as the Conmhaicne Mara, i.e., of the sea.  Connemara lies in the territory of Iar Connacht, "West Connacht," which is the portion of County Galway west of Lough Corrib and the portion of County Mayo in the barony of Ross.  Connemara was traditionally divided into North Connemara and South Connemara.  The mountains of the Twelve Bens and the Owenglin River, which flows into the sea at An Clochan/Clifden, marked the boundary between the two parts.  Connemara is bounded on the west, south and north by the Atlantic.  Connemara's land boundary with the rest of County Galway is marked by the Invermore River (which flows into the north of Kilkieran Bay), Loch Oorid, (which lies a few miles west of Maam Cross, and the western spine of the Maumturks mountains in the north of which the boundary meets the sea at the Killary a few miles west of Leenaun.
  The term Connemara is now commonly used (although incorrectly) to describe all of County Galway west of Lough Corrib.  Connemara is often used to describe the Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking areas) of western County Galway; however, this is inaccurate as some of these areas are outside of the traditional boundary of Connemara.  Another misconception is that Connemara's eastern boundary ends around Inverin and Maam Cross.  Connemara is composed of the Catholic parishes of Carna, Clifden (Omey and Ballindoon), Ballynakill, Roundstone and Inishbofin.  The territory contains the civil parishes of Moyrus, Ballynakill, Omey, Ballindoon and Inishbofin (the last parish was for a time part of the territory of the Clann Ui Mhaille, the O Malleys of the territory of Umhall, County Mayo.)
  The O Cadhla (Kealy) clan were the rulers of Connemara up until the 13th century when they were displaced from this position by the O Flahertys who fled into Iar Connacht from Maigh Seola during the English invasion of Connacht in the early 1200s.  Like the O Cadhla clan, the Mac Conghaile (Conneely) clan was also a branch of the Conmhaicne Mara.  The coast of Connemara consists of a number of peninsulas.  The peninsula of Iorras Ainbhtheach (sometimes corrupted to Iorras Aithneach) in the south is the largest and contains the villages of Carna and Kilkieran.  The peninsula of Errismore consists of the area west of the village of Ballyconneely.  Errisbeg peninsula lies to the south of the village of Roundstone.  The Errislannan peninsula lies just south of the town of Clifden.  The peninsulas of Aughris, Cleggan and Renvyle are found in the north-west of Connemara.  There are numerous islands found off the coast of Connemara of which Inishbofin is the largest, other islands include Omey, Inishark, High Island, Friars Island, Feenish and Mweenish.  The main town of Connemara is Clifden.  The area around the town is rich with megalithic tombs.   (Quoted from the site of "Wikipedia")
  
  

 
  There are some references to the Connemara in Joyce's works:
  
Ulysses

  
  12.1248.  whole wide world.  Where are the Greek merchants that came through the
  12.1249.  pillars of Hercules, the Gibraltar now grabbed by the foe of mankind, with
  12.1250.  gold and Tyrian purple to sell in Wexford at the fair of Carmen?  Read
  12.1251.  Tacitus and Ptolemy, even Giraldus Cambrensis. Wine, peltries,
  12.1252.  Connemara marble, silver from Tipperary, second to none, our farfamed
  12.1253.  horses even today, the Irish hobbies, with king Philip of Spain offering to
  12.1254.  pay customs duties for the right to fish in our waters.  What do the
  12.1255.  yellowjohns of Anglia owe us for our ruined trade and our ruined hearths?
  
  12.1829.  Tarbarrels and bonfires were lighted along the coastline of the four seas on
  12.1830.  the summits of the Hill of Howth, Three Rock Mountain, Sugarloaf, Bray
  12.1831.  Head, the mountains of Mourne, the Galtees, the Ox and Donegal and
  12.1832.  Sperrin peaks, the Nagles and the Bograghs, the Connemara hills, the reeks
  12.1833.  of M Gillicuddy, Slieve Aughty, Slieve Bernagh and Slieve Bloom. Amid
  
  14.0613.  By the Lord Harry, Green is the grass that grows on the ground.  And, says
  14.0614.  Mr Dixon, if ever he got scent of a cattleraider in Roscommon or the wilds
  14.0615.  of Connemara or a husbandman in Sligo that was sowing as much as a
  14.0616.  handful of mustard or a bag of rapeseed out he'd run amok over half the
  14.0617.  countryside rooting up with his horns whatever was planted and all by lord
  14.0618.  Harry's orders.  There was bad blood between them at first, says Mr
  
  15.1959.
BLOOM

  
  15.1960.  (in caubeen with clay pipe stuck in the band, dusty brogues, an emigrant's
  15.1961.  red handkerchief bundle in his hand, leading a black bogoak pig by a
  15.1962.  sugaun, with a smile in his eye) Let me be going now, woman of the house,
  15.1963.  for by all the goats in Connemara I'm after having the father and mother of
  15.1964.  a bating.  (with a tear in his eye) All insanity.  Patriotism, sorrow for the
  15.1965.  dead, music, future of the race.  To be or not to be. Life's dream is o'er.  End
  15.1966.  it peacefully.  They can live on.  (he gazes far away mournfully) I am
  15.1967.  ruined.  A few pastilles of aconite.  The blinds drawn.  A letter.  Then lie back
  15.1968.  to rest.  (he breathes softly)  No more.  I have lived.  Fare.  Farewell.
  
  17.1333.  What homothetic objects, other than the candlestick, stood on the
  17.1334.  mantelpiece?
  17.1335.  A timepiece of striated Connemara marble, stopped at the hour of
  17.1336.  4.46 a.m. on the 21 March 1896, matrimonial gift of Matthew Dillon: a
  17.1337.  dwarf tree of glacial arborescence under a transparent bellshade,
  17.1338.  matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle: an embalmed owl,
  17.1339.  matrimonial gift of Alderman John Hooper.
  
  17.1968.  What considerations rendered departure desirable?
  
  17.1969.  The attractive character of certain localities in Ireland and abroad, as
  17.1970.  represented in general geographical maps of polychrome design or in
  17.1971.  special ordnance survey charts by employment of scale numerals and
  17.1972.  hachures.
  
  17.1973.  In Ireland?
  
  17.1974.  The cliffs of Moher, the windy wilds of Connemara, lough Neagh with
  17.1975.  submerged petrified city, the Giant's Causeway, Fort Camden and Fort
  17.1976.  Carlisle, the Golden Vale of Tipperary, the islands of Aran, the pastures of
  17.1977.  royal Meath, Brigid's elm in Kildare, the Queen's Island shipyard in
  17.1978.  Belfast, the Salmon Leap, the lakes of Killarney.
  
  
Finnegans Wake

  
  075.22:  kneed!) for milk, music or married missusses) might,mercy to
  075.23:  providential benevolence's who hates prudencies' astuteness, un-
  075.24:  fold into the first of a distinguished dynasty of his posteriors,
  076.01:  blackfaced connemaras not of the fold but elder children of his
  076.02:  household, his most besetting of ideas (pace his twolve predama-
  076.03:  nant passions) being the formation, as in more favoured climes,
  
  

  
Extracted from Louis O. Mink's A "Finnegans Wake" Gazetteer
(Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1978), p.269

  
  
CONNEMARA.  Coastal region, W Co Galway, known for its beauty and poverty.  "Black-faced Connemama" is a breed of sheep.
  
  076.01  posteriors, blackfaced connemaras not of the fold
  

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Joyce Country
  
   Maam Valley between Maam Cross (An Teach Doite, meaning a burned house) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop: To the north-east of Maam Valley, which extends from Maam Bridge northwards to Leenane are a group of hills known collectively as Joyce's Country (Duiche Sheoigheach).
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Valley in Joyce Country between Maam (An Mam) and Leenane (R336) of the Connemara Loop
  
  
   
Leenane
  
   The beautiful village of Leenane, snugly situated at the head of Killary Harbour, is often aptly described as the "Gateway to Connemara."  The roads from Maam, Clifden, and Westport meet at this point.  Killary Harbour extends ten miles inland and with the mountains rising steeply on either side provides what is probably the best scenery in Ireland.  (Cited from the site of "Connemara Tourism")
  The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a 1996 drama by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh premiered by the Druid Theatre Company in Galway Ireland.  It also enjoyed successful runs at London's West End, and Broadway, and off-Broadway theatres in New York.
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Road signs in the center of Leehane
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Road signs in the center of Leehane
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 (Wednesday 5 August) The memorial plaque of the 1990 film The Field directed by Jim Sheridan: starring Richard Harris as a patriarchal tenant farmer Bull McCabe, Sean Bean as Tadgh McCabe, Frances Tomelty as a widow, Brenda Fricker as Maggie McCabe and John Hurt as Bird' O'Donnell.  It was filmed in this village between October to November 1989, taking eight weeks.
  [Story] "Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing endlessly for the sake of the land.  And when the widow who owns the field decides to sell the field in a public auction, McCabe knows that he must own it.  But while no one in the village would dare bid against him, an American with deep pockets decides that he needs the field to build a highway.  The Bull and his son decide to convince the American to give up bidding on the field, but things go horribly wrong.  Written by Kathy Li.  (Referred to the site of "The Internet Movie Database")
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 (Wednesday 5 August) In the heart of Leenane along N59
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 (Wednesday 5 August) In the heart of Leenane along N59
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 (Wednesday 5 August) In the heart of Leenane along N59
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Gaynor's Bar in the heart of Leenane along N59
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Gaynor's Bar in the heart of Leenane along N59
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Devils Mother (645 m) over the arch bridge, Leenane
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Devils Mother (645 m), Leenane
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Information Board of Killary Fjord, Leenane.  Killary Fjord is Ireland's only fjord.
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Killary Fjord, Leenane
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Killary Fjord, Leenane
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Killary Fjord, Leenane
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Killary Fjord, Leenane
  
  
   
Kylemore Abbey
  
   Kylemore Abbey (Irish: Mainistir na Coille Moire) is a Benedictine monastery founded in 1920 on the grounds of Kylemore Castle, in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.  The abbey was founded for Benedictine Nuns who fled Belgium in World War I.  The name Kylemore originates from the Irish words "Coill Mhor," meaning Great Wood.
  Originally called Kylemore Castle, it was built between 1863 and 1868 as a private home for the family of Mitchell Henry, a wealthy politician from Manchester, England who was also MP for Galway County from 1871 to 1885.  After the death of his wife Margaret in 1875, Mitchell did not spend much time there.  He and his wife are both buried in the small mausoleum near the church in the grounds of the abbey.  Notable features of the abbey are the neo-Gothic church (built between 1877 and 1881), a miniature replica of Norwich Cathedral, made from local green Connemara marble, and the Victorian walled garden.
  The abbey houses a secondary girls' boarding school, Kylemore Abbey International Girls' School.  The house and gardens are open to the public.  The nuns have decided to close the school in 2010, although they do not plan to sell the property and will continue to reside there.  (Cited from the site of "Wikipedia")
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Kylemore Abbey, Kylemore, Connemara, Co Galway
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Kylemore Abbey, Kylemore, Connemara, Co Galway
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Me and Kylemore Abbey, Kylemore, Connemara, Co Galway
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Kylemore Abbey, Kylemore, Connemara, Co Galway
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Kylemore Abbey, Kylemore, Connemara, Co Galway
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Kylemore Abbey, Kylemore, Connemara, Co Galway
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Kylemore Abbey, Kylemore, Connemara, Co Galway
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Kylemore Abbey, Kylemore, Connemara, Co Galway
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Outer Hall, Kylemore Abbey, Kylemore
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Fireplace of the Outer Hall, Kylemore Abbey
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 (Wednesday 5 August) The Drawing Room, Kylemore Abbey
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 (Wednesday 5 August) The Drawing Room, Kylemore Abbey
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 (Wednesday 5 August) The Dining Room, Kylemore Abbey, Kylemore
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 (Wednesday 5 August) The Flag of Ramillies on the left of the Drawing Room door, Kylemore Abbey.  It was captured by the Irish Brigade at the Battle of Ramillies in 1706.  The flag was left with the Irish nuns at Ypres Abbey for safekeeping, and has remained in their possession ever since.
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Portrait of Margaret Henry, nee Margaret Vaughan (1826-1875), Drawing Room, Kylemore Abbey
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Ditch to the Kylemore Lake, Kylemore Abbey, Kylemore, Connemara, Co Galway
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Neo-Gothic Church, Kylemore Abbey.
  Mitchell Henry built the Gothic Church between 1877 and 1881 as a memorial to his wife.  The Church is a "cathedral in miniature," complete with a crypt, projecting corner buttresses and carved angelic gargoyles.  The interior is embellished with a variety of Irish marble columns.  The columns support the gothic arches of the decorative caen stone ceiling.  In the south transept, a beautiful stained glass tracery window depicts the five graces; Fortitude, Faith, Charity, Hope and Chastity.  The Church is a centre of reflection and prayer for many visitors.  (Quoted from the Official Pamphlet)
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Neo-Gothic Church, Kylemore Abbey
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Inside of the Neo-Gothic Church, Kylemore Abbey
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Inside of the Neo-Gothic Church, Kylemore Abbey
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Inside of the Neo-Gothic Church, Kylemore Abbey
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Inside of the Neo-Gothic Church, Kylemore Abbey
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Inside of the Neo-Gothic Church, Kylemore Abbey
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Inside of the Neo-Gothic Church, Kylemore Abbey
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 (Wednesday 5 August) The stained glasses of the Neo-Gothic Church, Kylemore Abbey
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Inscription of the Mausoleum, Kylemore Abbey.
  Margaret Henry sadly died in Egypt in 1874, just three years after the completion of the Castle.  Her remains were brought back to Kylemore and laid to rest in the Mausoleum on the grounds.  (Cited from the Official Pamphlet)
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Approach to the Mausoleum, Kylemore Abbey
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Mausoleum, Kylemore Abbey
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Mausoleum, Kylemore Abbey
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Woods in Kylemore Abbey, Kylemore
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 (Wednesday 5 August) The Kylemore Lake and the Connemara Hills, Kylemore, Connemara, Co Galway
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 (Wednesday 5 August) The Kylemore Lake and the Connemara Hills, Kylemore, Connemara, Co Galway
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 (Wednesday 5 August) The Connemara Hills over the Kylemore Lake, Kylemore, Connemara, Co Galway
  
  
   
Inash Valley
  
   Inash Valley between Kylemore and Recess (R344) of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Inash Valley along R344 of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Inash Valley along R344 of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Inash Valley along R344 of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Inash Valley along R344 of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Inash Valley along R344 of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Inash Valley along R344 of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Inash Valley along R344 of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Inash Valley along R344 of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Inash Valley along R344 of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Inash Valley along R344 of the Connemara Loop
  
  
   
Maam Cross
  
   Maam Cross (An Teach Doite) along N59 of the Connemara Loop
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Cross along N59
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Cross along N59
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Cross along N59
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 (Wednesday 5 August) Maam Cross along N59




        


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