Word: galway
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...generations the fisherfolk of Galway had heard the ancient tale, how one day an island city which sank off Connemara would rise again from...
...thousand lights of the city itself. Young folks squealed with the delight of it, but the old ones crossed themselves and breathed a prayer. "Go sbahailadh dia sinn" (God protect us), they muttered, for hadn't the ancient tale said, too, that when the lost city reappeared, Galway itself would slide under the water? To a Dublin man who tried to put through a call to Galway, a telephone operator (who didn't know her folklore) gave unwitting confirmation of disaster. "There's no reply," she said, "they must all be dead in there...
...spirit that moved Eire to declare her independence moved two of her western isles to assert their own independence of Eire. For 40 years the 200 fisherfolk of Turn and Turbot have maintained an "untaxable republic," refusing to pay taxes to County Galway on the mainland...
Last week, as often before, Galway Council sent the bailiffs to Turn and Turbot to collect ?12,000 ($48,000) in back taxes...
Most illuminating are the shots made under the direction of brilliant, free-lance New Zealander Len Lye (Kill or Be Killed, Colour Box), which make up the bulk of the film. Lye's Dublin streets, obsessed faces and magical landscapes (made largely in bleak Galway) capture depths of mysticism which are beyond the reach of most words...