Conference tallis::celt

1205.0. "Historical/Cultural Tourism in Connemara" by MACNAS::RASMUSSEN () Mon Apr 19 1993 05:02

Folks,

	Remember Toby Joyce - the historical expert who regularly participated
	in various Notesfiles.

	Well Toby has left Digital Galway and has teamed up with Michael 
	Gibbons, a leading Irish Archaeologist to form a new tourism service
	(with a difference) in the West of Ireland.

	Their tourism service is to provide interested visitors to the Galway
	and Connemara regions with a range of historical/cultural tours. These
	tours can be organised to cater for individal's or group's needs. In
	some places, people may like to simply get advice on what to see or
	in other cases, people may like to have a local guide give them a tour 
	(even an aerial one !). If people desire, they can also arrange slide 
	shows.

	Luckily, Galway and Connemara are very fortunate in that the regions
	are very rich in pre-historical monuments, celtic forts, norman castles
	early christian churches and viking settlement. As well as that, the 
	areas are closely linked with some of Ireland's greatest writers and 
	patriots such as James Joyce, James Synge, W.B. Yeats and Padraig 
	Pearse. Geologists/Naturalists say no more, the Burren, Aran Islands 
	and peat bogs are all in close proximity.

	To contact Toby,

		Western Cultural & Heritage Tourism,

		The Island House,
		Market Street,
		Clifden,
		Connemara,
		County Galway.

		Tel 	Intl. +353-95-21379
		Fax 	Intl. +353-95-21845
	
	They have an office in Galway at the Spanish Arch at 353-91-27609 

	Regards,
		Brian