What cultural region in County Galway, Ireland, is where Irish writer of thrillers and television screenplays, Manning O'Brine, was born?
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Manning O'Brine Manning O'Brine was an Irish writer of thrillers and television screenplays about whom surprisingly little is known. His date of birth is uncertain: at least one authoritative source gives it as 1915; the dust jacket of his last American publication, however, says that he was born in Connemara, Ireland, in 1913 with dual Irish and Italian citizenship. Internet booksellers frequently give his date of death as 1977. All of his novels concern espionage and/or secret agents and often feature sadistic Nazis who have survived World War II and are hunted down and killed.
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Connemara Connemara (Irish: "Conamara" ; ] ) is a cultural region in County Galway, Ireland. The area has a strong association with traditional Irish culture and contains a vast part of the Connacht Irish-speaking Gaeltacht, which is a key part of the identity of the region and is the largest Gaeltacht in the country.
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Loughmore-Castleiney Loughmore-Castleiney is an Ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly. It is located in County Tipperary, Ireland. The area is made up of the villages of Loughmore and Castleiney and their hinterland. Loughmore is situated approximately 1 kilometer from the N62 road approximately halfway between the towns of Templemore and Thurles. Castleiney is approximately 3 kilometers from Templemore.
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Folan Folan (Irish: Ó Cualáin "or" Ó Culáin), is an Irish family name. They were a Brehon family in County Galway. The Folan family are of Conmhaícne origin.
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Galway GAA The Galway County Boards of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: "Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Coiste Chontae na Gaillimhe" ) or Galway GAA are one of the 32 GAA county boards in Ireland; they are responsible for Gaelic games in County Galway, and for the Galway inter-county teams.
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Gaultier GAA Gaultier GAA Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located on the outskirts of Dunmore East (An Dún Mór Thoir in Irish) which is a popular tourist and fishing village in County Waterford, Ireland. Situated on the west side of Waterford Harbour on Ireland's southeastern coast, it lies within the barony of Gaultier (Gáll Tír – "foreigners' land" in Irish): a reference to the influx of firstly Viking (Norwegian) and then Norman settlers in the area. The club is exclusively concerned with Gaelic Football.
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Inverin Inverin (Irish: "Indreabhán" , its official name, meaning "mouth of the river") is a Gaeltacht village between An Spidéal and Casla in County Galway, Ireland. Inverinis more strongly Irish-speaking than An Spidéal, partly due to fewer commuters from Galway living there. There are a number of Irish-language summer colleges in the area, most notably Coláiste Lurgan and Coláiste Uí Chadhain. The actual village of Inverin is the area between Baile na hAbhann and Na Minna.
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Killimer Killimer (Irish: "Cill Íomaí" ) is a village in County Clare, Ireland, in a civil parish of the same name. It is located on the northern bank of the Shannon and the N67 which passes through the village.
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Craughwell Craughwell (historically "Creaghmoyle", from Irish: "Creachmhaoil" ) is a village and townland in County Galway, Ireland. The name is also used as a surname, properly "Ó Creachmhaoil", though often anglicised as "Craughwell" and "Crockwell". The surname was largely unknown outside of the southeast of County Galway until the end of the 19th century when émigrés established families which still thrive in Newfoundland, Bermuda, Cornwall, Ohio and Berkshire County, Massachusetts, among other places.
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Connacht Connacht  or Connaught (Irish: "Connacht" or "Cúige Chonnacht") is one of the provinces of Ireland, situated in the west of the country. Up to the 9th century it consisted of several independent major kingdoms (Lúighne, Uí Maine, and Iarthar Connacht).
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Castlebar Castlebar (Irish: "Caisleán an Bharraigh" , meaning "Barry's Castle" ) is the county town of County Mayo, Ireland. It is the largest town in County Mayo.
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Dunmore, County Galway Dunmore (Irish: "Dún Mór" ) is a village in County Galway, Ireland. It is located on the N83 national secondary road at its junction with the R328 and R360 regional roads.
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River Clarin The River Clarin (Irish: "Abhainn an Chláirín" ) is a fast-flowing river in Ireland, flowing through southern County Galway.
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Letterkenny Letterkenny (Irish: "Leitir Ceanainn" , meaning "hillside of the O'Cannons" ), nicknamed "the Cathedral Town", is the largest and most populous town in County Donegal, Ireland. It lies on the River Swilly in east Donegal and has a population of 19,274. Along with the nearby city of Derry, Letterkenny is considered a regional economic gateway. Letterkenny acts as an urban gateway to the Tír Chonaill Gaeltacht, similar to Galway's relationship to the Connemara Gaeltacht.
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Brian Leyden Brian Leyden (born 1960) is an Irish writer from Arigna, County Roscommon and currently living in County Sligo. He has published the best selling memoir "The Home Place", the short story collection "Departures", and the novel "Death and Plenty". He won the RTÉ Radio 1 Francis MacManus Award in 1988 for "The Last Mining Village". He has written extensively about his home area for RTÉ's Sunday Miscellany and the Doc on One: "No Meadows in Manhattan", "Even the Walls Were Sweatin’" , "The Closing of the Gaiety Cinema in Carrick-on-Shannon" and " Practical Rooms and Pre-Fabs". He co-wrote the original screenplay for the feature film "Black Ice", which premiered at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013.
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Knocknadobar Knocknadobar (Irish: "Cnoc na dTobar" , meaning "mountain of the wells" ) is one of the main mountains of the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland.
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Carrowkeel, County Galway Carrowkeel (Irish: "An Cheathrú Chaol" ) is a village in County Galway, Ireland. In Irish it is called "An Cheathrú Chaol", which means 'the Narrow Quarter'.
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Gaeltacht Cois Fharraige Cois Fharraige is an area of Connemara, west of Galway city, where the Irish language is the predominant language (a Gaeltacht). It stretches from Na Forbacha, Bearna, An Spidéal to Indreabhán. There are between 8,000-9,000 people living in this area. The Cois Fharraige accent is different from the Conamara Theas accent.
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Donegal Donegal or Donegal Town ( or ; Irish: "Dún na nGall" , meaning "fort of the foreigners" ) is a town in County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland. The name was historically written in English as 'Dunnagall' or 'Dunagall'. Donegal gave its name to County Donegal, although Lifford is now the county town. From the 1470s until the very early 17th century, Donegal was the 'capital' of Tyrconnell (Irish: "Tír Chonaill" ), a Gaelic kingdom controlled by the O'Donnell dynasty of the Northern Uí Néill. Donegal sits at the mouth of the River Eske and Donegal Bay, which is overshadowed by the Blue Stack Mountains ('the Croaghs'). The town is bypassed by the N15 and N56 roads. The centre of the town, known as The Diamond, is a hub for music, poetic and cultural gatherings in the area.
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Kilfenora Kilfenora (Irish: "Cill Fhionnúrach" , meaning "Church of the Fertile Hillside" "or" "Church of the White Brow" , ] ) is a village and a civil parish in County Clare, Ireland. It is situated south of the karst limestone region known as the Burren. Since medieval times when it was the episcopal see of the Bishop of Kilfenora, it has been known as the "City of the Crosses" for its seven (now five) high crosses. The village had around 220 inhabitants in 2011 and achieved a certain amount of fame as the location where much of the TV show "Father Ted" (1995-98) was filmed.
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County Wexford County Wexford (Irish: "Contae Loch Garman" , Yola: Weiseforthe) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the South-East Region. It is named after the town of Wexford and was based on the historic Gaelic territory of Hy Kinsella ("Uí Ceinnsealaigh"), whose capital was Ferns. Wexford County Council is the local authority for the county. The population of the county is 145,273 according to the 2011 census.
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Athenry Athenry ( ; Irish: "Baile Átha an Rí" , meaning "Town of the Ford of the King" ) is a town in County Galway, Ireland, which lies 25 km east of Galway city. Some of the attractions of the medieval town are its town wall, Athenry Castle, its priory and its 13th century Anglo-Norman street-plan. The town is also well known by virtue of the song "The Fields of Athenry".