Ordnance Survey Letters, Mayo, vol. II, cited in Anne Chambers (2003), The Pirate Queen, but with spelling modernised. During the aftermath of the Irish War of Independence and the Civil War, Connemara was a major center for the work of the Irish Folklore Commission in recording Ireland's endangered folklore, mythology, and oral literature. According to folklore collector and archivist Seán Ó Súilleabháin, residents with no stories to tell were the exception rather than the rule and it was generally conceded in 1935 that there were more unrecorded folktales in the parish of Carna alone than anywhere else in Western Europe. [47] Vincent Remy, « Nicolas Mathieu, auteur de “Connemara”: “La néolangue managériale me révolte, elle est un des multiples visages de la bêtise”», sur www.telerama.fr, Télérama (consulté le 31 janvier 2022): «c’est bien la chanson de Michel Sardou Les Lacs du Connemara [...] qui donne son titre au troisième roman de Nicolas Mathieu».

He said: "I’m on holiday in France and apparently there’s a famous French song called ‘The Lakes of Connemara’ which they love to belt out in the pub when they’re pissed." Peter O'Toole, the noted actor of stage and screen, who achieved international stardom in 1962 playing Col. T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia, was born in Connemara in 1932, according to some accounts of his life.J. Bruce Ismay, 74, Titanic Survivor. Ex-Head of White Star Line Who Retired After Sea Tragedy Dies in London". The New York Times. 19 October 1937. "Joseph Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line and a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, died here last night. He was 74 years old." Yale University Press (17 March 2016). "Graveyard Clay: Cré na Cille". Yale University Press . Retrieved 21 February 2017. nl) Dutchcharts.nl – Michel Sardou – Les lacs du Connemara. Single Top 100 (1974-1989). Hung Medien. Consulté le 25 avril 2014. The Green party MP Aurélien Taché said he was “totally in tune” with Armanet. “I come from the working classes, as do my parents, and we’ve never liked Sardou. So I’ve had enough of this fable. On the other hand, I really like Juliette Armanet and I love freedom of expression even more,” Taché said. Have a listen here and if you're not fluent in French, this is roughly the English translation below:

Jugeant la chanson trop longue (plus de 6 minutes), Michel Sardou ne voulait pas la sortir. C'est Jacques Revaux qui le convainquit de la garder et la publia le 7 septembre 1981 [réf.nécessaire]. Elle est la 147 e chanson de Michel Sardou. The wider area of what is today known as Connemara was previously a sovereign kingdom known as Iar Connacht, under the kingship of the Ó Flaithbertaigh, until it became part of the English-administered Kingdom of Ireland in the 16th century. Parla & Pardoux, sous le titre Liberté, en 2002; Reprise par Catherine Ribeiro, Théâtre Toursky Marseille, 2002;John Ford, the American film director, and winner of 4 Academy Awards, whose real name was Seán O'Feeney, was the son of John Augustine Feeney from An Spidéal, [ citation needed] and directed the classic film The Quiet Man in nearby Cong, County Mayo. [ citation needed] Síle Seoige, the Irish TV presenter and journalist. She is the younger sister of Gráinne Seoige and a fellow native of An Spidéal During the 16th century, but legendary local pirate queen Grace O'Malley is on record as having said, with regard to her followers, ( Irish: "Go mb'fhearr léi lán loinge de chlann Chonraoi agus de chlann Mhic an Fhailí ná lán loinge d'ór") ("Better a ship filled with MacConroy and MacAnally clansmen, than a ship filled with gold"). [10] Connemara" derives from the tribal name Conmhaicne Mara, which designated a branch of the Conmacne, an early tribal grouping that had a number of branches located in different parts of Connacht. Since this particular branch of the Conmacne lived by the sea, they became known as the Conmacne Mara (sea in Irish is muir, genitive mara, hence "of the sea").

Renvyle House was burned down by the Anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War, but later rebuilt by Oliver St John Gogarty and turned into a hotel. [41] Irish language, literature, and folklore [ edit ] Memorial to Irish language activist and novelist Máirtín Ó Cadhain inside Dublin Airport: "The best literary tool I got from my folks is the language – a homely, earthy, polished language that may at times start me dancing and at times start me weeping, sometimes despite myself." Connemara lies in the territory of Iar Connacht, "West Connacht," within the portion of County Galway west of Lough Corrib, and was traditionally divided into North Connemara and South Connemara. The mountains of the Twelve Bens and the Owenglin River, which flows into the sea at An Clochán / Clifden, marked the boundary between the two parts. Connemara is bounded on the west, south and north by the Atlantic Ocean. In at least some definitions, Connemara's land boundary with the rest of County Galway is marked [ citation needed] by the Invermore River otherwise known as Inbhear Mór [4] (which flows into the north of Kilkieran Bay), Loch Oorid (which lies a few kilometres west of Maam Cross) and the western spine of the Maumturks mountains. In the north of the mountains, the boundary meets the sea at Killary, a few kilometres west of Leenaun. Joe Heaney a legendary seanchai and sean-nós singer in Connacht Irish, is said to have known more than 500 songs – most learned from his family while he was growing up in Carna. [50] The Féile Chomórtha Joe Éinniú (Joe Heaney Commemorative Festival) is held every year in Carna. Máire Geoghegan-Quinn is an Irish politician, and was the former European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science was born in Carna.

Dans le comté de Galway, à l’ouest de la province de Connacht en Irlande, se situe la région du Connemara et ses lacs célèbres bien avant la chanson éponyme du français Michel Sardou.

The Irish drinking song " The Hills of Connemara" has been recorded and performed by a number of Irish and Celtic-themed bands. Connemara public library was built in 1896 at Madras by Britishers making it one of the oldest library in india. Micheál Mac Suibhne ( c. 1760–1820), a Connacht Irish bard mainly associated with Cleggan, remains a locally revered figure, due to his genius level contribution to oral poetry, Modern literature in Irish, and sean-nós singing in Connacht Irish. Mac Suibhne was born near the ruined Abbey of Cong, then part of County Galway, but now in County Mayo. The names of his parents are not recorded, but his ancestors are said to have migrated from Ulster as refugees from the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. [44] According to historian Cormac Ó Comhraí, between the Land War and the First World War, politics in Connemara was largely dominated by the pro- Home Rule Irish Parliamentary Party and its ally, the United Irish League. [24] At the same time, though, despite an almost complete absence of the Sinn Fein political party in Connemara, the militantly anti-monarchist Irish Republican Brotherhood had a number of active units throughout the region. Furthermore, many County Galway veterans of the subsequent Irish War of Independence traced their belief in Irish republicanism to a father or grandfather who had been in the IRB. [25] The coast of Connemara is made up of multiple peninsulas. The peninsula of Iorras Ainbhtheach (sometimes corrupted to Iorras Aithneach) in the south is the largest and contains the villages of Carna and Kilkieran. The peninsula of Errismore consists of the area west of the village of Ballyconneely. Errisbeg peninsula lies to the south of the village of Roundstone. The Errislannan peninsula lies just south of the town of Clifden. The peninsulas of Kingstown, Coolacloy, Aughrus, Cleggan and Renvyle are found in Connemara's north-west. Connemara includes numerous islands, the largest of which is Inis mór which is the biggest island, County Galway Inis mór; other islands include Omey, Inishark, High Island, Friars Island, Feenish and Maínis.

With this in mind, Ó Cadhain spearheaded the 1969 founding of Coiste Cearta Síbialta na Gaeilge (English: Irish Language Civil Rights Committee"), [56] a pressure group campaigning for social, economic and cultural rights for native-speakers of the Irish-language both inside and outside of traditional Gaeltacht areas and which repeatedly emulated the direct action and civil disobedience tactics used by the contemporary Welsh Language Society, the Northern Ireland civil rights movement, and the American civil rights movement. Sorcha Ní Ghuairim (1911–1976) was a teacher, writer of modern literature in Irish, and sean-nós singer.

Nicolas Mathieu, Connemara, Actes Sud, 2022, 400 p. ( ISBN 978-2330159702, présentation en ligne) . One of the last Chiefs of Clan O'Flaherty and Lord of Iar Connacht was the 17th-century historian Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, who lost the greater part of his ancestral lands during the Cromwellian confiscations of the 1650s. [11]