Croagh Patrick is in fact the silent and paternal backdrop to many of the most spiritual places in the area, such as Murrisk Abbey and the National Famine Monument, a bronze sculpture depicting a ship dominated by dozens of flying skeletons, ambassadors of the great famine, fading as the red sun sets over the bay, truly unforgettable, just like the sun. The solidity of Croagh Patrick seems to come from the energy that the men and women of Mayo bestow upon it, increasing its weight, until it becomes gigantic, an indestructible strength of the mind and heart. Patrick that watches over the bay, looking the clouds in the eyes as they take the form of a jellyfish, others disk-shaped, and others intent on reproducing in the sky the flock of islands that populate the bay. Heading east along Clew Bay and then inland, we find ourselves in the vicinity of Croagh Patrick, the mountain sacred to St. It was exactly in the Louisburgh area that Grace O'Malley was born, the pirate queen who did not accept rules and constraints and probably had in her blood the same sense of freedom that you breathe while looking at the ocean from the outskirts of the city. Louisburgh is the opening through which you can reach the separate worlds of Inishturk and particularly Clare Island, the sentry post of nature at the entrance to the bay. It owes its name not to the Irish but to the first Marquis of Sligo who named the village after a Canadian fortress in memory of his Canadian uncle who enlisted in the British army and fought against the French for colonial rule. The southwest corner of the bay is home to the town of Louisburgh. Clew Bay inspires this exact same feeling: the city surrounding it, in place of the amphitheatre, holding hands, all eyes turning toward the ocean that winds between the many islands of the basin (365 in fact, just like the days in the year according to legend), as if in a common connection. The ancient amphitheatres were built in the form of an incomplete circle, the opening of which was occupied by the stage, the centre of attention and connection point between the two ends of the tiers. Children doing ring a ring o’ roses usually hold hands and stand side by side as they move along to the rhythm and in doing so the game commences. It is the time when you leave the individual dimension to immerse yourself in a wider community. To stand in a circle or around a table always marks the beginning of shared knowledge, of a shared work. ![]() When a group of people meet for the first time in a room, perhaps with a view to a future collaboration, in general they stand in a circle so that as each one presents themselves the others can look and listen to them. Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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