The Old Water Tower on the banks of the Graney River on the Feakle Road out of Scariff. It was built to supply water to the Workhouse and is one of the stops on Walking the Way of the Famine. Photograph: Gabrian Van Houdt. SCARIFF’S Harbour Festival will tell the story of the famine in …
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Stories of emigrant settlements in the USA, stories of life in a conflicted Northern Ireland, the Aughty Rainforest in the time Brian Boru, are topics of talks to be given during Scariff Harbour Festival over the upcoming Bank Holiday weekend.
*Zoe Fenton makes some Arts and Crafts at the Scariff Harbour Festival. Photograph: Natasha Barton In the week of David Trimble’s death, the impact of the Good Friday Agreement in connecting communities North and South was remembered in Scariff over the weekend.
*Jane Halloran Ryan. EMIGRATION stories from East Clare parishes to the United States will be the focus of a talk at Waterways Ireland Building in Scariff on Bank Holiday Saturday & Sunday (July 30th and 31st) during the local Harbour Festival.
Scariff Harbour Festival Commitee Members Harry O’Meara, Karina O’Brien and Mike Rodgers. Photograph: Natasha Barton POLITICAL SUCCESS of the Alliance Party will be among the talking points at the Waterways Ireland Scariff Harbour Festival which returns at the end of July.
