Guides to Spiddal
4 articles, each about one thing people ask: a station, a square, a beach, a festival, a castle. Every one is written from a named source in this site’s own words, and every place it mentions is pinned on the model.
De Dannan came out of sessions in Hughes's pub in Spiddal in 1975, formed by Frankie Gavin of Corrandulla on fiddle, Alec Finn on bouzouki, Johnny…
An Spidéal, 18 km west of Galway on the R336, takes its name from a medieval leper hospital in West Spiddal; about 75% of its people speak Irish,…
The R336 is the 83 km regional road from the N6 and N83 in Galway west along the bay through Salthill, Barna, Furbo, Spiddal and Inverin to…
Máirtín Ó Cadhain, born in Connemara on 4 January 1906 and died in Dublin on 18 October 1970, was the most important Irish-language prose writer…