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Aidan Ryan

Knocknarae: A Hitchhiker’s Guide

Story and photos by Aidan Ryan

December 8, 2022 by Leave a Comment

I had only one day for Knocknarae, and it was the worst day. In Sligo to study at the W.B. Yeats International Summer School, I had decided to take my only free Saturday to climb Knocknarae, one of the two smooth limestone sides of the town’s weather-catching bowl, the other being Ben Bulben, both eulogized at one time or another by the town’s (and the island’s) most famous … [Read more...] about Knocknarae: A Hitchhiker’s Guide

Calling on Carrowduff

By Aidan Ryan

Fall 2022

October 18, 2022 by 1 Comment

Pa Ryan's Birthplace in County Clare The last time a Ryan stood in the low doorway of the dirt-floored byre-dwelling would have been the day before Willie Ryan passed, 7 Nov. 1967. I say the seventh instead of the eighth (the actual date of his death) because Willie was laid up with pneumonia in his kitchen, where he’d been living since the thatch roof had collapsed on the … [Read more...] about Calling on Carrowduff

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