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National Heritage Week 2023 starts this Saturday, August 12, and runs until Sunday, August 20. The much-loved annual event, which first began back in 2005, is a...

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By D.J. Garrity, Contributor Five thousand years ago, on the windswept edge of Western Europe, near the village of Ballycastle, halfway between Benwee Head and Killala Bay, a community of farmers, cattlemen, crafters of wood and stone, men and women of passionate beliefs were engaged in an organic and spiritual existence alongside the daunting, relentless sea cliffs of North Mayo. The primeval forest of Ireland was slowly and meticulously cleared with polished stone axes, and a quarter million ...