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Inishturbot

The Death and Resurrection of Inishturbot

By Dan Casey, Contributor
December / January 2005

December 1, 2004 by 6 Comments

On a clear day you can see Inishturbot from Eyrephort beyond Kingston on the Connemara coast. It's a smallish hummock of an islet -- a mile long by a half-mile wide, lying a stone's throw from the Eyrephort pier and a 15-minute drive further east to Clifden. One of a score of Galway offshores -- neither as famous as the tourist-trod Arans, nor as sacred as neighboring Omey -- … [Read more...] about The Death and Resurrection of Inishturbot

The Death and Resurrection
of Inishturbot

By Dan Casey, Contributor
December / January 2005

December 1, 2004 by 12 Comments

On a clear day you can see Inishturbot from Eyrephort beyond Kingston on the Connemara coast. It's a smallish hummock of an islet -- a mile long by a half-mile wide, lying a stone's throw from the Eyrephort pier and a 15-minute drive further east to Clifden. One of a score of Galway offshores -- neither as famous as the tourist-trod Arans, nor as sacred as neighboring Omey -- … [Read more...] about The Death and Resurrection
of Inishturbot

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Sir Hudson Lowe, an Anglo-Irish soldier, was born on this day in his mother’s native city of Galway in 1769. Hudson’s father, John Lowe, was an army surgeon, so much of his childhood was spent in various garrison towns; particularly in the West Indies. In 1787, he entered his father’s regiment. Lowe is best known for his time as Governor of the colony of St. Helena and as the “gaoler” for Napoleon Bonaparte.

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