McGilloway's Way: A Connemara Journey

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McGilloway's Way: A Connemara Journey

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Details

Location

Connemara, Galway, Lough Corrib

Year

1992

Date

Transmission 21/10/1992

Length

58min 40sec

Audio

sound

Format

Betacam

colour

Source

Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI)

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, Northland Films ltd, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Rights Holder

ITV, Northland Films ltd

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

Oliver McGilloway present's McGilloway's Way, a programme which celebrates the dramatic and beautiful landscapes surrounding Ulster. 

This episode is set in Connemara, Co. Galway, with its boulders, wild flowers and rivers it supports an abundance of wildlife and flora. We meet a local farmer who is breaking up the land so that he can seed it again, unfortunately the winter had not been kind and went on for longer than expected. In the barn, Porcia the pig is none too impressed to have visitors whilst she is feeding her litter.

Next, we are at Lough Corrib, where thousands of people from around the world embark each year to fish the native brown trout. An angler on the Lough tells McGilloway the importance of a daily tea with the water taken from the lough before showcasing "a very handsome trout" that he catches. 

Notes

Oliver, or Olly McGilloway as he was widely known as, was the presenter of McGilloway's Way and was produced by Joe Mahon.  The series was unexpectedly cut short due to McGilloway's untimely death in 1994. The programme was relaunched as Lesser Spotted Ulster with Joe Mahon as presenter and continues to be broadcast today.

Credits

A Northland Production 

Presented by Oliver McGilloway

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