Lahinch based campaigner, author of Hitching for Hope, and host of the Love and Courage podcast Ruairí McKiernan will host human rights group Afri’s annual famine remembrance event next on Saturday.
The National Museum of Ireland - Country Life is inviting people in Clare with memories of boats and boat building in their community to submit their stories to an online archive of Irish heritage.
These days Clonlara is known throughout Clare and beyond for being a stronghold of hurling. Others know the village for its proximity to the Shannon River and the Headrace Canal. Very few people will know of Clonlara’s links to a ship wreck off the coast of Portugal.
Cuimhneamh an Chláir has compiled an album of Christmas stories on CD for the entertainment of the older residents of Co. Clare – the very people, in many cases, who have given these stories to the archive.
Four-hundred-and-fifty years of local government in County Clare has been celebrated at glór with the launch of a new publication by Clare County Council.
After their hugely successful centenary commemorations of the Scariff Martyrs, the East Clare Memorial Committee are taking the story to a national platform, with a panel discussion on the very popular Trasna Na Tíre, which has reached thousands of people worldwide with their online historical lecture and discussion series.