The Achill Prophecy (Tairngreacht Acla) TG4 Broadcast

In the future, wasn't he really mm-hmm? Do you know cadiban caribbean? Instead, there are still caravans there in Belmont, that's where he came from. There was foreign competition at the time because Belmont was also looking for a terminal in its area. They hoped to develop a seaport for the Atlantic business and Atkin were equally competitive. They wanted the tourism and fishing business to develop here, but the day Lord Balfour visited Atkin he was more impressed with the business plan than the local people. presented here and the actor was the winner that day and luckily for Rachel, it brought a new venture and a hope for acting that was in serious decline at the time.

The best way to describe it is that they had big plans in those days that they were going to do. develop a major fission industry and there will be a major export business from here. All healthy people from the age of 13 would head to Scotland to work in the potato fields and would literally meet in every corner of the island and head to kiev jugg at the moore club but to get on the prostitutes there to meet the steamboats in westport, well eric used nakamura around larson and carolina and unfortunately back then there was no health, safety, regulations or anything, it was every man for himself and everyone could be anywhere and the fish got on that boat and got to that steamboat because you never had a second round first if the boat was gone you were here for the season if you missed that bus beyond victory and the antennas vietnam agus pa sean haley mohan bald no, but visha and the fort unimagine um um b because ben hall but I thought yes I thought I was doing a good thing by believing in school and going to scotland but it was fine but I was going to work but I was going to Scotland you joined in knees picking potatoes on your knees no more at night no no machines no machines in that the people who walk on the hook and dig for you in your photo well, I didn't like it, never I wouldn't like it, I would never have liked it after that, no one here on your side and she didn't like us leaving, you know, foreigners, they invited English gentlemen to come and take advantage of what they call the resources of Ackel Island. one of which was fishing and anyway, as a result of the advertisement in the Atkin Missionary Herald and Western Witness, a gentleman called Alexander Hector, who owned extensive fishing rights in Scotland, established a salmon fishery here on the island by Eccle.

It was an extraordinary development in its time and it was the right idea, but at that time we would have had no companions in Akil, there was no development as such, there were no boats in place and the only boat the local population would have had would have been been the cora, so there was never really any kind of business experience here or development potential here at that particular time as Hector had planned, but the railway business was a fantastic venture for the tourism industry that he established by acting about the tourism business. once and for all and in 19, in the 1890s, when the terminal opened here, we had a small hotel on the island that was immediately developed with the help of the railroad people and then four or five new hotels were opened in a few years. of this and this was promoted throughout the railway literature, tourism brochures in England and around the world, and gradually started a tourism business from there.

They decided in 1934 that those were the financial difficulties they were having here. They decided to close the line. to Westport, but the local men decided that the local businessmen sent a delegation to uh sean lemass and my father joe sweeney was one of the delegates who went up and no matter what these businessmen proposed, the decision that day was that the line was for close line closed in september not available yet it is a mystery how the fire broke out in this Dumarton farm building which housed Irish potato pickers ten boys were burnt to death while the girls at the other end of the building some of them sisters of all the children were rescued um m uh oh I knew them they would just go to school with them they were at school with me they would be about my age they three boys see you later at the pier on the north wall in Dublin, thousands of Dubliners came out to pay their respects to these poor unfortunate young men who were burnt to death in the Kirkuntullah bhati and the train then began its long and arduous journey to Mullingar, where it made a stop and thousands left again. pay your respects at mullingar and then to claire morris in westport where again large crowds turned out at all stations of great western midland and great western and train Rash ke garoshi ke garon Foreign, you can see it coming, there is a bit of height in pelrani and We could see the train coming at the age of 15 I also remember stopping and crying even men you couldn't it was a horrible time quite quite very quite they turned over coffins one after another horrible thing to see they went to the sound church that night and the next day after he killed and There were 10 10 cars and the coffins on top of each car uh he