#ballyshannon

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Creevy (Ballyshannon), County Donegal.

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#OTD in 1824 – Birth of poet, William Allingham, in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal.

William Allingham was a poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem ‘The Faeries’ was much anthologised; but he is better known for his posthumously published Diary, in which he records his lively encounters with Tennyson, Carlyle and other writers and artists. His wife, Helen Allingham, was a well-known watercolourist and illustrator. Working on an…

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The Ballyshannon Sun Disc

Despite what it might look like, this object is *not* a chocolate coin wrapper. It is something called the Ballyshannon sun disc, one of the treasures in our collections. ⁠ ⁠ This small decorated gold-foil disc was found in 1669 at Ballyshannon, Ireland, by men looking for a place described in an old Irish song where 'a man of a gigantick stature' was buried with gold ornaments. The discovery is recorded in the 1695 edition of Camden's Britannia (first published in 1586), the first major regional account of the history and antiquities of Britain and Ireland. ⁠ ⁠ The disc is made of a thin sheet of beaten gold, and has raised decoration (repoussé) of a cross-shape surrounded by circles and geometric patterns. Objects such as this are known as 'sun-discs' and are one of the earliest forms of sheet gold-work found in Britain and Ireland, dating to around 2500-2150 BC. Many discs are pierced in the centre with two holes that may have been used to sew them to a piece of clothing or a head-dress, perhaps in pairs. This is one of a pair of two very similar discs that were recorded as being found at Ballyshannon. It was donated to the Ashmolean in 1696, but the fate of the other is unknown.⁠

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Water Droplets on the sea rock

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BALLYSHANNON CO. DONEGAL REP. IRELAND

June 2019

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New audio for RBP subscribers

THE BOY FROM BALLYSHANNON — NME‘s Cliff White talks about the blues, Bo Diddley and more with Irish guitar hero Rory Gallagher (December 1978).

Jimi Hendrix to Kate Bush: the complete RBP Audio library

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#OTD in 1824 – Birth of poet, William Allingham, in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal.

William Allingham was a poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem ‘The Faeries’ was much anthologised; but he is better known for his posthumously published Diary, in which he records his lively encounters with Tennyson, Carlyle and other writers and artists. His wife, Helen Allingham, was a well-known watercolourist and illustrator. Working on an…

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#OTD in 1995 – Death of Donegal-born blues guitarist and singer/songwriter Rory Gallagher.

#OTD in 1995 – Death of Donegal-born blues guitarist and singer/songwriter Rory Gallagher.

Blues guitarist legend, Rory Gallagher, died in a London hospital from complications following a liver transplant at the age of 47. Rory’s family moved to Cork where he discovered blues music on American Forces Radio. By the time he was twenty-one, he was recognised as one of the finest guitarists in the world. In 1971, the UK music paper Melody Maker voters gave Gallagher top spot over Eric…

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