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There are so many sensory elements to sampling the Wild Atlantic Way — but one of the more unusual ones is the potential of the sound of the route.

O’Donnellan and Joyce Auctioneers' recent ‘virtual’ property auction, despite being held behind closed doors, was viewed by thousands courtesy of a high definition live video stream provided by the auction house.

For any visitor to Dublin in the early 19th century, to miss seeing the great Daniel O’Connell would have made their visit almost worthless. William Makepeace Thackeray, on the threshold of becoming one of the greatest writers of the English language, spent three months touring Ireland in 1842 collecting his impressions of the ‘manners and the scenery’ of the country and its people, for his successful Irish Sketch Book published some years later. Back in Dublin at the conclusion of his tour he lost no time heading to the Mansion House to see the Liberator in person.*

Bia Blas Cafe is located in the Sheep and Wool Centre in the picturesque village of Leenane on the Wild Atlantic Way. Its position on the edge of the Killary Fjord — Ireland’s only fjord — means diners are guaranteed a view like no other.

Bia Blas Cafe is located in the Sheep and Wool Centre in the picturesque village of Leenane on the Wild Atlantic Way. Its position on the edge of the Killary Fjord — Ireland’s only fjord — means diners are guaranteed a view like no other.

Two remarkable Galway people, Conor O’Malley and Sal Joyce, grew up in the Maam Valley, Connemara, in the closing years of the 19th century. Although they were cousins, they probably never met until they were both doctors working side by side in the Galway Central Hospital, on Prospect Hill, the forerunner of the present University Hospital, in the 1920s.