I grew up alongside a River at the bottom of the Dublin mountains and I now live alongside a River in the Wicklow mountains, only about a mile from its source which is a tributary the start of the Liffey. It’s nature at it’s best and as an all-round angler can appreciate that this is
Bhíos 8 mbliana d’aois nuair a chuir Granda mé in airde ar dhrom seana-Mhaidhc. Ní raibh aon diallait air. Capall oibre ab ea seana-Mhaidhc, capall mín, capall mór, capall aoibhinn. Bhí an capall ag treabhadh leis sall an bóithrín, mise ar a dhroim agus Granda lasitar don ainmhí mín seo. Bhíosa lán do rógaireacht agus
My Father’s wellies are making a soft rhythmic sound as they flap against the back of his corduroy trousers, it is a balmy summer evening after a light shower. I must be four or five years old. Hand in hand, we are walking back to my Grandma’s house from another fishing adventure. She has walked
The Duff River in County Sligo was one of my favourite places to spend many leisurely hours. Its blackened water results in great measure from the prevalence of this boggy land. My father and our neighbour Tom Gallagher would come here often to fly fish for trout, or if lucky perhaps a salmon. Tom always
The River Shannon has been described as majestic and mighty, which it is, but to me it is an old friend. I find the water healing and consoling. I talk to it every day and I tell it things I wouldn’t tell another soul. I love to watch, as birds swoop and call to each
Grandfather arrived in Tullamore when he was three years old in 1931. He lived in a house in a place called Kevin’s Street known locally as Lumpur Lane. In 1932 he remembers the Eucharistic congress and all the flags and bunting out all around the town. He also remembers going to meet the funeral of
The River Liffey is located in Dublin, Ireland. It flows through the centre of Dublin. The mouth of the river is at the Irish Sea. Around 60% of the Liffey’s flow is used for drinking water. Guinness used to use boats to deliver barrels of Guinness and these boats started their journey at the Liffey.
Once, a long time ago my friend came to my house to play and we went to the River Mourne close to where I live. We came to a meadow that had a sandy place with cobbles near the river and we sat down to eat our lunch. Suddenly I saw a grey thing on
What lovely childhood memories I possess of the river that flowed at the edge of our farm. During the late forties and early fifties my curiosity about the river was never ending. The Clare, rose north of Ballyhaunis, meandered through Mayo and Galway, entering the Corrib at Annaghdown. My river was the centre of our
The River Barrow, second longest river in Ireland, one of The Three Sisters, rises in The Sliabh Blooms and together with The Nore and The Suir flows into Waterford Harbour. There are many important towns and villages along its banks, the Village of St. Mullins among them. In the past, The Barrow played an important
The lowest reaches of The Dodder River achievable are on the pedestrian walkway leading up to the busy and noisy hump of Ringsend Bridge, I’ve spotted pods of mullet here sifting through the languid still water and just recently four swans flying abreast down river their combined wingspan almost covering the water expanse bank to
When I think back on my childhood, I quickly realise that so many of the stand- out moments for me revolved around water. Growing up in Athlone the Shannon was always a massive presence. Crossing the town bridge as a child meant negotiating the noisy, and quite frankly frightening, Bailey bridge which was in place
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