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| Galtymore Dance Hall, London. |
For countless Irish emigrants to London during the 20th century the Galtymore in Cricklewood, London was more than just a dance-hall. It was a home from home, a piece of Ireland where each weekend they could meet Irish friends from all over London, hear the music from the Irish country and showband scene and better still, get to see the showband stars in person.
The Galtymore was the original Ballroom of Romance and many a lifelong relationship began at this famous dancehall.
"Home From Home at the Galtymore" is a documentary which looks back on the glittering life and times of this infamous dance hall, and records the closing nights of the Galtymore, speaking to some of the many Irish who have fond memories of the renowned dance hall.
Twenty years ago Clare Lake was dying, a no go area for nature lovers. The water itself was a red soup, noxious with the effluent of the adjacent bacon factory; it didn't help that the creamery was across the road and that the lake's bank had long been the town dump. Retrieved from the clutches of industrial pollution some twenty years ago and following a Foróige Environmental Project in 1988, the prospect of real ecological renewal dawned on certain optimists of the development committee; their bold vision was of a municipal park on the erstwhile wasteland.
With a great deal of work and willpower from the local community, the whole area was turned into what it is today - a beautiful national park.
Now it is a picturesque parkland and lakeland idyll and one of the town's showpieces.
This is the rags to riches story of Clare Lake.
well done claremorris
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