The Irish Stew

The Irish Stew

The Irish Travel Kit - Connemara

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John and Sally McKenna
Mar 18, 2024
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Bringing light to ‘the last pool of darkness.’

There have been two towering entities who are irrevocably associated with Killary Fjord, in Leenane, Connemara, the only fjord in Ireland.

The first is Ludwig Wittgenstein, the legendary philosopher who stayed in Rossroe for six months in 1948, and who famously described the region as ‘the last pool of darkne…

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