Royal Visit - Civic Reception The Model
Civic reception held in the Model Art Gallery Sligo in honour of HRH Charles, Prince of Wales and HRH the Duchess of Cornwall on the 20th of May 2015
Enniscrone GC | County Sligo GC | July 2015
The Gallery Tour's annual trip to Sligo.
We take in Enniscrone Golf Club, County Sligo Golf Club (Rosses Point) and Castle Dargan Golf Club. Unfortunately due to extreme weather conditions no video footage of Castle Dargan made it, we hope you enjoy our shots from Enniscrone and Rosses Point.
West Ireland Photo Gallery Six
Photographs of Sligo Town, Yeats Centre, Wildrose Waterbus Tour of Lough Gill, Glen Car Waterfalls, Drumcliffe Churchyard and Yeats's Grave, Ben Bulben, Lissadell, Knocknarea, Cong
Haunted (& beautiful) Seafield House / Lisheen House, Ransboro, Co. Sligo, Ireland
Seafield House was built by William Phibbs in 1798, the original house was Gothic but the stables and cowsheds were joined to it in the Palladian manner. Owen Phibbs who inherited the estate from his father lived mainly in Dublin and used Seafield only as a summer holiday house. However in 1842 Owens son, William came to live permanently at Seafield and began building a much larger house a short distance from the old house which was let fall into ruin. The architect of the new house was John Benson who afterwards was knighted for his design of the building for the Dublin Exhibition of 1853. The house was Classical square, two storeys, entrance front of 7 bays with the door recessed behind a tomb doorway with two Ionic columns.
Owen Phibbs being an eminent archaeologist of the time began to fill the house with ancient treasures from the Far East, Syria, and Egypt. The objects were housed in a long gallery on the first floor which became known as ‘The Museum’.
Trouble started soon afterwards when the house became infested with a particularly unpleasant and malicious poltergeist. A strange figure was often seen on the stairway at night accompanied soon afterwards by terrible loud crashes heard throughout the house. Broken pottery and ornaments would be found the next morning. On one occasion the whole house shook violently - all in the house fled in terror. After this event servants refused to stay inside the house. Shortly after a gardener was terrified by a tall dark shadowy figure seen disappearing into the sea laughing maniacally. The gardener was also said to have fled in terror never to return.
The house had such a bad reputation that it’s name was changed from Seafield House to Lisheen House to try to conceal it’s past history.
Eventually in the 1900s the house was handed over to a group of Jesuit priests who performed mass daily for some weeks in an attempt to exorcise the poltergeist.
The priests attempt failed, they also fled the property never to return.
Unable to rid the house of it’s infestation D.W.Phibbs sold the house in 1940.
Shortly after the house was dismantled and left as a roofless ruin.
Inside a Irish Castle
inside a castle
THE TÁIN COLLECTION by Louis le Brocquy..
The Tain collection is a wonderful collection of tapestries by Louis le Brocquy which tells the people of Ulaidh, now known as Ulster or Northern Ireland. le Brocquy is probably Ireland's foremost artist of his generation and he passed away in April 2012 aged 94. He leave behind him a unique collection of Irish artwork.
The National Gallery, Centra and Dublin Castle in Dublin, Ireland
The National Gallery, Centra and Dublin Castle in Dublin, Ireland. This is an excerpt from the travel show Dirt Cheap with Chas Bruns. To watch the full episode, click here:
Are jee be? Haroon Mirza - Irish Museum of Modern Art
Are jee be? Haroon Mirza - Irish Museum of Modern Art
8 March -- 8 June 2014
Lisheen...A Haunted Irish Gothic Manor House
The Story of Lisheen House~~~
Seafield (Lisheen) House was built by William Phibbs in 1798, the original house was Gothic but the stables and cowsheds were joined to it in the Palladian manner. Owen Phibbs who inherited the estate from his father lived mainly in Dublin and used Seafield only as a summer holiday house. However in 1842 Owens son, William came to live permanently at Seafield and began building a much larger house a short distance from the old house which was let fall into ruin. The architect of the new house was John Benson who afterwards was knighted for his design of the building for the Dublin Exhibition of 1853. The house was Classical square, two storeys, entrance front of 7 bays with the door recessed behind a tomb doorway with two Ionic columns.
Owen Phibbs being an eminent archaeologist of the time began to fill the house with ancient treasures from the Far East, Syria, and Egypt. The objects were housed in a long gallery on the first floor which became known as ‘The Museum’.
Trouble started soon afterwards when the house became infested with a particularly unpleasant and malicious poltergeist. A strange figure was often seen on the stairway at night accompanied soon afterwards by terrible loud crashes heard throughout the house. Broken pottery and ornaments would be found the next morning. On one occasion the whole house shook violently - all in the house fled in terror. After this event servants refused to stay inside the house. Shortly after a gardener was terrified by a tall dark shadowy figure seen disappearing into the sea laughing maniacally. The gardener was also said to have fled in terror never to return.
The house had such a bad reputation that it’s name was changed from Seafield House to Lisheen House to try to conceal it’s past history.
Eventually in the 1900s the house was handed over to a group of Jesuit priests who performed mass daily for some weeks in an attempt to exorcise the poltergeist.
The priests attempt failed, they also fled the property never to return.
Unable to rid the house of it’s infestation D.W.Phibbs sold the house in 1940.
Shortly after the house was dismantled and left as a roofless ruin.
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Achillhenge
The controversial structure recently built in Achill. 12.05.2012
Oriain Pottery
O'Riain Pottery was established in 1998 by master craftsman John Ryan. Situated in the heartland of south county Sligo John makes both functional & decorative stoneware pottery, drawing inspiration from the surrounding rural landscape. John is one of most popular makers of Irish stoneware pottery. He was awarded a highly commended award at Showcase Ireland 2010 for best new product. Described as a producer of witty and contemporary home accessories, John also produces a range called Big Maggie, figures full of character and fun.
“The Painted Landscape” by T.P. Flanagan. Artist & Teacher
1997 BBC N.Ireland Arts Documentary
As an artist, he has gone his own way, explored the Irish landscape and enhanced Irish landscape painting through the discovery and elaboration of an individual style, Seamus Heaney wrote in 1995 in a tribute to his friend TP Flanagan.
Luminosity and a kind of vaporous delicacy became a feature of Flanagan's work, as the landscapes of Fermanagh and Sligo gained an increasing hold on his artist's imagination. His engagement with the effects of constantly changing light, light on water or the shimmer of sunlight after rain, makes him unique among recent Irish painters.
As a student at the Belfast College of Art one of his lecturers was the renowned Belfast artist John Luke whose work Flanagan references in this film.
(edited notes from an article in The Independent by Patricia Craig.)
T.P. Flanagan 1929 - 2011
West Ireland Photo Gallery Eight
Photographs of Mary and Phillip Kynes abandoned farmhouse, the Burren near Ballyvaughan, and the Medieval Banquet at Dunguaire Castle
Benbulben Sligo 5/7/10
Donal & Odilon climb Benbulben
crystal antiques carlingford ireland
crystal antiques carlingford ireland - probably the largest and most comprehensive antique and collectibles store in the north east region with prices to suit all pockets. crystal-antiques.com
Irish Coast Plein Air Vid
Brian Keeler paints the Wild Atlantic Way- along the west coast of Ireland. This vid shows some short vids of plein air paintings being created on location in the Irish counties of Donegal, Sligo and Clare. To learn more about the artist and to view completed works from Ireland, Scotland and other locales visit his website, briankeeler.com.
Golf Hotel Breaks in Sligo
Are you looking for a great value golfing break in Sligo, Ireland?
Castle Dargan Golf Hotel and Wellness Centre offers 2 Nights Bed and Breakfast + 1 Dinner & 2 Rounds of Championship Golf. From €179 per person sharing.
Ierland, Yeats en Sligo
Op zondag 22 mei 2017 reisden we in het spoor van de beroemde Ierse dichter W.B. Yeats (1865-1939). Eerst bezochten we zijn graf in Drumcliff (Under Ben Bulben). In de stad Sligo verbleef hij vaak in zijn jeugd bij zijn grootouders en oom. Hij maakte uitstapjes naar Rosses Point met zijn prachtige strand. In Lissadell House ontmoette hij Constance en Eva Gore-Booth, twee adellijke voorvechters van sociale gelijkheid, vrouwenrechten... Constance trouwde met de Poolse graaf Markiewicz en zou meestrijden in de Paasopstand van 1916. Lissadell House (upstairs, downstairs) bezit een prachtige alpentuin. Nadien reden we naar Lough Glencar, waarde beroemde waterval door Yeats wordt bezongen in The Stolen Child. Een volgend meer is Lough Gill, met het kleine eiland Innisfree, dat Yeats vereeuwigde in The Lake Isle of Innisfree.
Audleystown Court Cairn
This is a youtube exclusive ! No other videos of this place ! Whoohoo
Audleystown Court Cairn is a dual court grave situated near the south shore of Strangford Lough, north-west of Castle Ward, 1.75 miles from Strangford village in County Down, Northern Ireland, It contained human and animal remains, as well as pottery and flint implements.
It is a, now roofless, trapezoidal long cairn, with the sides revetted by dry-stone walling almost 27m long and a shallow forecourt at each end opening into a burial gallery of four chambers. The cairn material of local stone, survives to a height of 2–3 ft and was probably originally filled sufficiently highly to cover the heavy flags which roofed the burial galleries. The basic unit of a forecourt giving access to a gallery divided into four burial chambers is repeated at each end of the long, wedge-shaped mound, so that the two individual units almost, but not quite, meet back to back near the centre of the mound. There is an intervening gap of just over 2m. Traces of at least partial corbelling of the galleries was found. The galleries are each about 10m in length, 1.2m in width and about 1.2 to 1.5m high.
The site was excavated in 1952 by AEP (Pat) Collins of the Archaeological Survey. The burial deposits included human bones and teeth, mammal bones, artefacts, burnt earth and charcoal. At least 34 individuals of both sexes and all ages were identified, with 17 in each gallery. In the northeast gallery the remains of ten individuals were found in the chamber and another seven in the second chamber, but there were no bones or grave goods in the third and fourth chambers. All the remains were disarticulated in such a way as to suggest that they must have been defleshed before being put in the tomb, and some were burned. Over 20 of the sets of bones were unburnt and had been placed in a defleshed condition, sometimes in small neatly arranged groups, at all levels in the burial deposits, which contained burnt bone throughout. At least 15 pottery vessels, reduced to fragments by the roof collapse, were identified. Some were decorated, but most were plain Western Neolithic carinated bowls. Worked flint found included a large javelin head and 12 lozenge-shaped arrowheads, as well as a number of scrappers and knives. Two of the bowls found are exceptional in having lugs like vessels found in some tombs in Scotland. Fingertip fluting on three bowls makes them similar to bowls found in Scotland and the Isle of Man. The animal bones found included ox, sheep, goats, pig and dog or wolf, as well as bird bones. There was a food vessel and a horse bone found in one of the chambers.
Gallery: Snowy Scenes around Ireland in January
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