Talk:Clifden

Can someone familiar with this article please confirm that Mortor is not relevant to this article, as it is a fictitious location in LOTR?

Center
Can someone pull the article up so that it's not out of alignment. Thanks. RiverHockey 22:39, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Great article but I removed the John D'Arcy link from his name as the link only connects to a cricketer born in the 1930's !

Best,

Dave Madden.--Iamlondon 21:34, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Churches
What are the names of the two large churches in Clifden (seen here and here)? Cheers, Postdlf 01:02, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Church in Clifden 01.jpg: Christ Church {)
 * Image:Church in Clifden 02a.jpg: St. Josephs Church
 * But I guess you had found that answer already, with the question almost 5 years old.  Night of the Big Wind  talk  22:14, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Irish placename
Hi, I do not speak Irish. However, Tim Robinson's Gazetteer of Connemara says: "An Clochán(?), the stepping stones, the original crossing place on the river, the name was fashionably anglicised as Clifden in the early 19th Cent." Could someone comment on this versus the "stone cell/beehive"-version? Thanks!Drow69 (talk) 19:43, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

There is in fact no source given for the "beehive"...so I replaced it with the "stepping stones" from Robinson.Drow69 (talk) 13:39, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Civil War
Nice part about the Civil War, but a bit long. I think it might by a worthy idea to create an article about the two wars in the Connemara instead of squeezing it into the Clifden article. The Banner talk 18:49, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Yes, it definitely is too long - especially relative to the rest of the article. Yet it seems that nothing much notable happened in that neck of the woods either before or after the 1920s. Land League and Fenian activity there seems to have been rather typical. The building of the railway was a big thing locally, but that already has its own page. One thing that would be interesting to have is a write-up of the much more recent Clifden airport controversy. Not sure whether it would be sufficiently important for its own page, though... Some of it could be integrated here Timeline of the Irish War of Independence and here Timeline of the Irish Civil War, but I feel these are already somewhat over-detailed. Drow69 (talk) 12:40, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
 * That is why I suggested to widen it to Connemara, instead of Clifden. But even then there is not enough for a separate article to your opinion? The Banner talk 13:10, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Not sure. I've only looked at the history of Clifden, so I am no expert on what happened elsewhere...it seems to me that the "Burning of Clifden" and the "armoured car" episodes were quite unusual in terms of the scale of conflict involved. Most of the action elsewhere seems to have been sniping, burning of unguarded manor houses and coastguard stations and the like. As far as I can tell most of the rest of Connemara saw only very sporadic action - small wonder, given the low population density. As I mentioned, there is an implication that Connemara Republicans featured quite prominently in the military leadership of the Irregulars. But again, I am not knowledgable enough to say whether the role they played warrants an article. Drow69 (talk) 14:53, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Marconi
The Connemara View ceased publication in 2010. As a result these links are now dead. I can't access wayback machine from here, so I just took out the dead links. If anyone can replace them, please do so. Here's the original text: "Clifden gained prominence after 1905 when Guglielmo Marconi decided to build his first high power transatlantic long wave wireless telegraphy station four miles (6 km) south of the town to minimize the distance to its sister station in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. The first point-to-point fixed wireless service connecting Europe with North America opened for public service with the transmission of 10,000 words on 17 October 1907. At peak times, over 400 people were employed by the Clifden wireless station, among them Jack Phillips, who later died as chief Radio Operator on the Titanic." Drow69 (talk) 13:39, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Link to personal website
This (94.230.109.176) IP editor tried twice in two consecutive days to put up a personal website link here, as well as on Letterfrack and Connemara National Park and Kylemore Abbey. I'll undo it for now, but maybe some further steps need to be taken.Drow69 (talk) 14:10, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

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