Gweebarra Bay () is located on the west coast of
County Donegal
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, in
Ireland
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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
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''.
* 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
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