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RNLI voluntary crews deserve our thanks and support - Achill and Ballyglass ...
Connaught Telegraph
The Achill Island crew on board their all-weather lifeboat were called out on 14 occasions and assisted eight people in distress. The Aran Island crew were somewhat busier, with 40 call-outs to help 36 people. Howth RNLI lifeboat station in Dublin was ...

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BBC News

Achill-henge: A monument that divides Ireland
BBC News
But on Achill Island, off the far west coast - up a mountain and in the middle of a bog - sits a different kind of monument that locals are calling Achill-henge. The wind is so strong, just opening the car door takes considerable effort.
Unauthorised Stonehenge-like monument that divides IrelandDigitalJournal.com

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Humpback Whale Spotted Off Achill
Afloat
#MARINE WILDLIFE - The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group has confirmed the sighting of a humpback whale off Achill Island in Co Mayo last weekend. Surfers off Keel Beach were credited with the discovery, after spotting a large whale of 30-60ft breaking the ...

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Syracuse.com (blog)

Grit gives way to color in exhibit at Syracuse's Everson Museum
Syracuse.com (blog)
This coincided with his first trip to Ireland and summertime stay on Achill Island on that country's West Coast. There, his subject matter was transformed as well, dominated by portraits of the island's inhabitants, especially the children.

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Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung initiiert Veranstaltungsreihe in Weimar
Ostthüringer Zeitung
In der Galerie ACC hält er einen Vortrag über die Aufenthalte der Familie Böll auf Achill Island , die 1957 Einzug in dem "Irischen Tagebuch" fanden. Im Stellwerk informiert indes ein Vortrag über den Ruhm Bölls , aber auch die Anfeindungen gegenüber ...

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Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung initiiert Veranstaltungsreihe in Weimar
Thüringer Allgemeine
In der Galerie ACC hält er einen Vortrag über die Aufenthalte der Familie Böll auf Achill Island , die 1957 Einzug in dem "Irischen Tagebuch" fanden. Im Stellwerk informiert indes ein Vortrag über den Ruhm Bölls , aber auch die Anfeindungen gegenüber ...

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Syracuse.com (blog)

Everson Museum opens exhibit of works of Robert Henri
Syracuse.com (blog)
But Henri also spent years portraying the landscape and people of Achill Island, a speck of land located off the central West Coast of Ireland. Saturday, an exhibition titled "From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" opens at the Everson ...

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Achill village drama group to play TF
Mayo News
Having started off as an avenue of raising funds for the local community festival, the Dooega Drama Group from Achill Island are heading for loftier heights after it was confirmed they will play the TF Royal Theatre next month.

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Irish Times

A home on Achill
Irish Times
He bought a cottage on Achill Island in 1958, and from then on the family came regularly to spend periods of time there, and Böll did a great deal of his writing in that cottage. In 1972 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in 1985.

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Irish Echo

Around Ireland
Irish Echo
The Achill-henge project is the work of controversial developer Joe McNamara, a native of the island now resident in Galway. McNamara, who is said to owe Anglo Irish Bank €3.5 million, gained national notoriety when he drove a cement mixer against the ...

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