In late May 1923 at a special meeting of the council of the Cork Chamber of Commerce, its President John Callaghan Foley presided over a debate on tourism promotion in Cork city and the wider region.
There were two words – raw and epic – which constantly came to mind as my 400cc scooter motorcycle traversed the roads and byways of West Cork whilst researching this new book in the past year
From Eyre Square to the Claddagh Village, Galway is looking only gorgeous in the 1943 short film 'Ireland's Golden West' which is now available via the Irish Film Institute's (IFI's) Bord Fáilte Film Collection.