Gweebarra Bay
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Gweebarra Bay () is located on the west coast of
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, in
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. The mouth of the River Gweebarra and Inishkeel Island are here. The towns near the bay are Narin, Portnoo, Lettermacaward, and Cor.


References in popular culture

*The majority of Lucy Caldwell's 2006 novel '' Where They Were Missed'' is set around Gweebarra Bay. *Irish singer Maggie Boyle's song "Gweebarra Shore" (album '''Gweebarra 1998) tells of loss and of childhood memories of this place. *Poet
Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish Irish poetry, poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is ''Death of a Naturalist'' (1966), his first m ...
refers to Gweebarra in his poem "The Singer's House" published in 1979 as part of his collection ''
Field Work Field research, field studies, or fieldwork is the empirical research, collection of raw data outside a laboratory, library, or workplace setting. The approaches and methods used in field research vary across branches of science, disciplines. ...
''. * Irish Singer Hozier makes reference to Gweebarra in his song '''Butchered Tongue (from the 2023 Unreal Unearth album) dealing with marginalisation and oppression of minority and indigenous languages such as Irish.


See also

* List of bays of the British Isles


References

Bays of County Donegal {{Donegal-geo-stub