Ashford Castle, a massive hotel located at the shores of Lough Corrib on 350 acres of verdant Co. Mayo land, has been prestigiously ranked as the best hotel in the world by Virtuoso, a luxury travel network composed of 9,000 global specialists. The award was given to the five-star luxury hotel at the Best of the Best Awards during Virtuoso Travel Week, a luxury travel show in … [Read more...] about Ashford Castle Is Named the Best Hotel in the World
Donegal Man Shaves Seconds off Sheep Shearing World Record
Co. Donegal man Ivan Scott (below left) has recently beaten the Guinness World Record for the fastest time in shearing a single adult sheep. Scott, 33, hails from Kilmacrennan and broke the record live on RTÉ’s Big Week on the Farm in April, shearing his sheep in 37.9 seconds, beating the previous record of 39.31 seconds which was set in Australia in 2010. Scott is no tyro when … [Read more...] about Donegal Man Shaves Seconds off Sheep Shearing World Record
Two Irish Writers Shortlisted for Bailey’s Prize
By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
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June / July 2016
June / July 2016href="https://www.irishamerica.com/in-this-issue-2016-june-july">Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
June / July 2016
Irish novelists Anne Enright and Lisa McInerney have been shortlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, a £30,000 prize awarded for any original novel written in English and published in the U.K. Enright, one of Ireland’s best-known writers, was nominated for her 2015 novel The Green Road, which focuses on four siblings who return home when their mother announces her … [Read more...] about Two Irish Writers Shortlisted for Bailey’s Prize
National Library of Ireland Receives Donation of Yeats’s Nobel Prize Medal
The National Library of Ireland has announced the receipt of the medal awarded to W.B. Yeats for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. The medal, valued at approximately $1.7 million, and the accompanying diploma were donated to the Library by the Yeats family and were received at a special event in April. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 for his “always … [Read more...] about National Library of Ireland Receives Donation of Yeats’s Nobel Prize Medal
Quilt Commemorates the Lives of 77 Women Detained after Rising
As is all too often the case, the story of the role played by women in major historical events is often overlooked, downplayed, or altogether covered up. But the story of the women arrested following the 1916 Easter Rising now acts as its own cover, so to speak, since the completion of a quilt that commemorates the lives of the 77 women arrested and detained at Richmond … [Read more...] about Quilt Commemorates the Lives of 77 Women Detained after Rising