“Probably,” he replied, “it will be like going on a trip to Tory Island.” Halfway through the crossing to Tory from the Donegal mainland, I thought I understood what he meant. A force five ...

Storytelling is, after all, high art on Tory. Since Old Balor’s day, a lot has happened on the island. It’s said St. Colmcille himself established the mid-sixth-century monastery that ...

The island basked prettily in sunshine ... whether he would want to be is another matter. A member of Tory’s famous art school and these days also a committed conservationist (proud of the ...

MEMBERS of that remarkable artistic colony, the Tory Island painters ... north west Donegal coast opened this week at the Verbal Arts Centre in Derry. On show are between 40 and 50 paintings ...

Written over a period of four years by Dr Art Hughes, reader at Ulster University, the book features verbatim accounts from Patsy Dan – elected King of Tory Island in 1993 – in his native ...

Padraig Doherty of Turasmara Teoranta began operating the Tory Island ferry service in 1992 ... Minister of State at the Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht Pat The Cope Gallagher ...

He described how Mr Rodgers had brought together a group of artists and brought out their skills, adding he was a loss to the world of art as well as to Tory Island. “It is the end of an era for ...

Picture a beautiful summer's day in July 1994. A man on a boat looks out across the Atlantic to the remote Irish island of Tory. He searches the distant shoreline for ...