The opening sequence ( including shots of the Plassey ship wreck ) were filmed over Inis Oírr – the smallest of the Aran Islands.

Services to the Aran Islands are operated from Aerfort na Minna ( Connemara Regional Airport ).

He was a close friend of Samuel Beckett and of J. M. Synge, providing illustrations for two of Synge's travel books, The Aran Islands and Travels in Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara.

The film made his reputation and nothing in his later life fully equaled its success, although he continued the development of this new genre of docufiction, e. g. with Moana ( 1926 ), set in the South Seas, and Man of Aran ( 1934 ), filmed in Ireland's Aran Islands.

Producer Michael Balcon took Flaherty on to direct Man of Aran ( 1934 ), which portrayed the harsh traditional lifestyle of the occupants of the isolated Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland.

The Aran Islands, featuring spectacular pre-historic forts such as Dún Aonghasa, have been a regular tourist destination since the 19th century.

The Fir Bolg were given, as a place of settlement, the Aran Islands and surrounding coastland ( the largest of these Islands, Inishmore — Árainn — is home to a fortress allegedly related to Aengus and the Fir Bolg, Dún Aengus ).

This episode of history, in which the Fir Bolg come from what is assumed to be a place near modern Scotland, settle in Ireland, and then go to the Aran Islands, on Ireland's western fringe, has given rise to one interpretation of Fir Bolg origins.

A Pictish invasion of Ireland is the proposition in this account, and the Aran Islands were a last refuge for this invading force.

In addition to Castilian Spanish being the primary official language of Spain, the kingdom also has several co-official regional languages which enjoy equal and unbiased constitutional protection and promotion: Catalan / Valencian ( in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands ), Galician ( in Galicia ), Basque ( in the Basque Country and Navarre ) and Aranese ( in Val d ' Aran, Catalonia ).

There are some local ferry services as much of the county is surrounded by water ; there is one from Killimer to Tarbert Island in Kerry and also from Doolin to the Aran Islands of Inisheer and Inishmore.

A number of inhabited islands are administered by the county ; they include Oileáin Árann ( Aran Islands ) and Inis Bó Fine ( Inishbofin ).

There are 30, 978 Irish speakers in the Gaeltacht, 11, 000 Irish speakers in the Gaeltacht Cois Fharraige and Conamara Theas area including the Aran Islands stretching from Na Forbacha to Carna and another 5, 000-7, 000 in North Connemara ( including the border area with County Mayo ) and approximately 4, 000 Irish speakers living in areas where the language is spoken by less than 30 % of the population.

The Aran Islands ( Oileáin Árann ) are to the west across the entrance and there are numerous small islands within the bay.

The approaches to the bay between the Aran Islands and the mainland are as follows ; the North Sound ( An Súnda ó Thuaidh ) lies between Inishmore and Leitir Mealláin in Connemara, it was formerly known as Bealach Locha Lurgan in Irish.

The Aran Islands, on the west coast of Ireland

The Aran Islands ( — Aran Islands pronunciation: ) or The Arans ( na hÁrainneacha — ) are a group of three islands located at the mouth of Galway Bay, on the west coast of Ireland.

Man of Aran ( 1934 ) is a fictional documentary ( ethnofiction ) by Robert J. Flaherty about life on the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland.

These include: the Centre d ' Observació de l ' Univers ( Centre for Observing the Universe ), or PAM, of Montsec, which is an ambitious project that combines research, education and diffusion within the field of cultural and scientific tourism ; the establishment of the Tren dels Llacs ( Lakes Train ), a touristic railway that connects the provincial capital to the Pre-Pyrenees ; the creation of new exhibition spaces ( including the Museum of Lleida, the Paper Dresses Museum of Mollerussa and the Skiing Museum of the Val d ' Aran ); the organisation of routes to help discover the natural, cultural and monumental treasures of Lleida ( with the Castles of Sió Route, the Pyrenean Counties and Nostalgic Pallars Route, the Wine Route of Les Garrigues, and the Literary Routes of Pallars, etc.

These boats were used to carry turf to be used as fuel across Galway Bay from Connemara and County Mayo to the Aran Islands and the Burren.

Like the Burren, the Aran islands are renowned for their remarkable assemblage of plants and animals.

It caters for the entire second level educational needs of the Aran islands.

Like the Burren, the Aran islands are renowned for their remarkable assemblage of plants and animals.

Like the Burren, the Aran islands are renowned for their remarkable assemblage of plants and animals.

It provides a reference and local studies collection with information on the heritage and folklore of the Aran islands.

Aer Arann was established in 1970 to provide an island-hopping air service between Galway and the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland.

Cill Rónáin ( anglicized as Kilronan ) is the main settlement on Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland in County Galway.

* Arranmore, also known as Aran Island off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland

The Aran jumper ( Irish Gaelic: Geansaí Árann ) is a style of jumper / sweater that takes its name from the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland .< ref >

It is also known in English as Aran Island ( not to be confused with the Aran Islands off Galway Bay or the Scottish Isle of Arran ).

* Arranmore or Aran Island off the coast of County Donegal in Ireland

On the Aran Islands ( off the coast of Ireland ) there is a legend in which a dark banshee would rip your soul from your body when you were alone, unless you were to utter the Irish word ' Dh ' ábhoit ' ( pronounced daw-voyt ).

The location where Gorgo first appears, the fictional Nara Island, is likely a tribute to the Godzilla series ; Nara being a historical period of Japan: alternatively, it may be an anagram for the Aran Islands, off Ireland's west coast.

According to local legend, the giant was supposed to have left it when he went off in search of his wife, the female giant Aran.

On his return with his spoils, the wind became rough, and the sky angry ; and the ship and boat were separated from each other ; and when the ship was making for Aran in the beginning of the night, the sail was swept away from the hands of the men and warriors, and torn to rags off the ropes and tackles, and wafted into the regions of the firmament ; and the ship afterwards struck upon a rock, which is at the mouth of Cuan-an-fhir-mhoir, in West Connaught, where she was lost, with her crew, except Mahon and three others.

The Val d ' Aran borders France on the north, the Spanish Autonomous Community of Aragon to the west and the Catalan comarques of Alta Ribagorça to the south and Pallars Sobirà to the east.

Roderick O ’ Flaherty in A Chorographical Description of West or H-Iar Connaught ( 1684 ) tells us " There is now living, Morogh O ' Ley ( Murrough Ó Laoí ), who imagins he was personally on O ' Brasil for two days, and saw out of it the iles of Aran, Golamhead Lettermullen, Irrosbeghill, and other places of the west continent he was acquainted with.

Arran (; ), also known as Aran, Ardhan ( in Parthian ), Al-Ran ( in Arabic ), Aghvank and Alvank ( in Armenian ), (- Ran-i ) or Caucasian Albania ( in Latin ), was a geographical name used in ancient and medieval times to signify the territory which lies within the triangle of land, lowland in the east and mountainous in the west, formed by the junction of Kura and Aras rivers, including the highland and lowland Karabakh ( Artsakh ), Mil plain and parts of the Mughan plain, and in the pre-Islamic times, corresponded roughly to the territory of modern-day Republic of Azerbaijan.

The catchment area is bounded to the east by the Aran Fawddwy massif and to the west and north by the Harlech dome which forms a watershed just south of Llyn Trawsfynydd.

Inishmaan (, the official name, formerly spelled, meaning " middle island ") is the middle of the three main Aran Islands in Galway Bay on the west coast of Ireland.

After arriving in Ireland, her group explored inland sites around Galway Bay, Craughwell, and the Dingle Peninsula, and conducted dives in the area of Galway Bay near the coast of the Aran Islands.