This week, I shall arise and go to Inishowen. With apologies to William Butler Yeats, I propose not a visit to the lake isle of Innisfree, County Sligo, but the peninsula of Inishowen, County Donegal.
A LARGE chunk of Donegal has been ceded to Northern Ireland - and there hasn't even been a referendum on the new border. A LARGE chunk of Donegal has been ceded to Northern Ireland and there hasn't ...
For travellers, going to extremes can be rewarding – especially if you choose Malin Head, the northernmost point of Ireland. Standing on the raw edge of Europe, where the land crumbles into the ocean, ...
Pól Ó Conghaile goes off the beaten track in search of Donegal’s hidden treasures. Paddle your own canoe It's flat calm on Lough Foyle, a perfect day for a paddle. Hooking up with Adrian Harkin of ...
The audience cheered at the end of Jimmy McLaughlin's rendition of Dear Old Inishowen, not only because of his fine a cappella accomplishment but also because he was singing it in McGrory's front bar ...
For many years poetry was my cultural blind spot. I’m not going to blame this on my own literary failings, of course, but on a secondary schoolteacher who failed to convey his own joy of verse to a ...
Cross rope bridges strung across the Atlantic or visit reimagining of time gone by; whatever you fancy doing, you’ll find it in Ulster. Kevin McElhinney died instantly following the accident on the ...