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	Encyclopedia: Tory Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tory Island (OileÃ¡n Toraigh in Irish; translation: tors are hills), is an island 12 km off the north-west coast of County Donegal, in the Republic of Ireland.
		It is part of the Donegal Gaeltacht and Irish is widely spoken on the island.
		In the apocryphal history of Ireland, Lebor GabÃ¡la Ãrenn, Tory Island was the site of Conand's Tower, the stronghold of the Fomorians, before they were defeated by the Nemedians in a great battle on the island.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tory-Island (601 words)

	Places - Toraigh ~ Tory Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Toraigh, or Tory Island, nine miles north of the coast of Donegal, is by common consent "the most isolated, the most desolate, the most windswept of any of the Irish islands".
		It is an island drenched by the sea, drenched by the elements, and drenched with history and folklore.
		Tory folklore has a different version: Colm Cille along with Finian and Beaglaoch stood on top of Cnoc na Naomh (hill of saints) in Magheraroarty and tossed their croziers into the sea to decide which of them would convert the island.
	www.donegallibrary.ie /memory/towns/tory.htm (274 words)

	The Island Trust: Introduction
		Thus it was for the Island Trust, for I had no need to go to Tory Island in County Donegal in 1980.
		Paisley explained that Rathlin Island was in his constituency and as both of us were interested in the betterment of island people, they were in fact both working for the same cause.
		Island communities are very close-knit; they work as a unit for each other and can be suspicious of outsiders.
	homepage.eircom.net /~theislandtrust (1463 words)

	Tory Island: part two
		Their simple, powerful depictions of their island and the seascapes around it were described as 'primitive,' not so much because of their perspectiveless style but because of the rough materials they used.
		It was without doubt the island's darkest hour, when the population began to dwindle dangerously, and a Blasket-style evacuation seemed a real possibility.
		Tourism has played a vital part in the island's survival, and a hotel was built to encourage day-trippers to stay.
	www.ivenus.com /travel/ER-FullLength2-tory_island_2-Wk32.asp (762 words)

	hackwriters.com -Tory Island with Ian Middleton
		Tory Island is a remote, treeless place lying nine miles off the county’s northern coast.
		Getting to Tory Island is a lot easier nowadays due to modern boats; although the crossing may still be rough enough to upset the stomach of even the hardiest traveller.
		Tory is steeped in history (it’s been inhabited for 4000 years) and the islanders have fought hard to retain their way of life.
	www.hackwriters.com /ToryIsland.htm (1469 words)

	Tory Island -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tory Island (Oileán Toraigh in (The Celtic language of Ireland) Irish), is an island 12 km off the north-west coast of (additional info and facts about County Donegal) County Donegal, in the (additional info and facts about Republic of Ireland) Republic of Ireland.
		It is part of the Donegal (additional info and facts about Gaeltacht) Gaeltacht and Irish is widely spoken on the island.
		Since the (The decade from 1950 to 1959) 1950s, the island has been home to a small community of artists, and has its own art gallery.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tory_island.htm (178 words)

	Travel Writer: Ian Middleton:
		Tory Island is a remote place off the northern coast of Co. Donegal.
		The island is famous for its school of painters whose work has been displayed throughout Europe and even in New York.
		As the king and his island shrank off into the distance I realised that this was one place I would be returning to.
	www.geocities.com /middleian/king.html (2438 words)

	Tory Island - North West - Ireland Travel Information Guide
		Tory Island has become very well known for many reasons - one being the native art of the Tory Island artists.
		A Gaeltacht island, Tory is small and yet retains its own distinctive dialect.
		It is believed that St. Colmcille may have founded a monastery on Tory in the sixth century - a round tower and the ruins of two churches are all that remain.
	www.12travel.ie /ie/North_West/attractions/tory_island.html (182 words)

	Eye - Island calm - 03.27.03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As a further bonus, Young is a rare example of a powerful Tory cabinet minister who hails from Toronto (his riding is Willowdale), a fact that may make him less inclined to go out of his way to tangle with locals.
		Ward's Island was first settled 170 years ago as a fishing camp, and the two islands have been used for residential purposes ever since.
		Island resident Tony Farebrother thinks that if Kells wants response, then he should approach the community as a whole through a proper process.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.27.03/news/island.html (1018 words)

	Fáilte go Cló Iar-Chonnachta (CIC). - Welcome to Cló Iar-Chonnachta (CIC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tory Island, the island of the uncrowned king, lies off the north west coast of Donegal.
		Although small in size, the island is privileged to be the bearer of an extensive singing tradition which dates back over 200 years, and remains an integral part of the island’s cultural infrastructure today.
		He has had a long-standing interest in the sean-nós singing tradition of Tory Island, and it is on this topic that he completed his doctoral thesis for the University of Limerick.
	www.cic.ie /cgi-bin/newsitem.asp?idarticle=39 (288 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| From Our Own Correspondent \| A place of bewitching beauty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tory Island is not, as you might expect, an isolated maritime community peopled by men in well-cut blazers with strong views on immigration.
		Ireland keeps its offshore islands going because they are time capsules of a vanished national life, Gaelic-speaking reminders of how the country was before the demands of Britain's imperial economy took a grip over the centuries.
		Tory is like a granite kaleidoscope where the shifting patterns of light in the seas and skies produce a curious ephemerality, as though the cliffs and beaches somehow change every time you look away.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4545175.stm (1098 words)

	Oileáin
		Islands of drowned drumlins which were formed by stone and gravel dropped from melting ice at the end of the last Ice Age.
		The easternmost and smallest of the Aran Islands.
		Except for lighthousekeepers the island was abandoned in 1928.
	irishislands.info /oil1.html (1033 words)

	Tory on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Tories were favored by Queen Anne and reached the zenith of their early power (1710-14) under the leadership of Robert Harley, earl of Oxford, and Henry St.
		After the accession of George III (1760) Tory sympathizers supported the power of the sovereign as the “king's friends.” William Pitt revitalized the faction after 1783, giving it a more solid parliamentary basis.
		The Tories again became reactionary under the impact of the French Revolution but entrenched themselves so firmly in control of the government that they were not dislodged until 1830.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Tory.asp (970 words)

	Tory Island Stories
		Tory Island: the Cow, the King, and the Fairy Rabbit.
		The craggy shape of Tory dominates the skyline visible from the coast of Donegal.
		There has always been a lot of pedestrian traffic on Tory in the wee hours of the morning, and not all of it alcoholic, for the lack of space to build houses meant that, traditionally, when a Tory man and woman got married, each would remain in their family home.
	www.irelandphoto.com /local/local1.htm (661 words)

	©County Donegal.Net & Dún-na-nGall.com - Tory Island / Oileán Thoraigh
		Tory Island is situated 5km North West of Horn Head and can be reached by ferry from Magheraroarty on the Donegal mainland.
		Tory is famous for its school of 'primitive' painters who were encouraged by the internationally famous painter, the late Derek Hill, an Englisman and Honourary Irishman, who frequented the island for over fifty years until his death in 2000.
		Among the Island painters are Patsy Dan Rodgers, the King of Tory, his nephew Rory Rodgers and Anton Meehan, all of whom take as their subject the rugged and beautiful scenery of the island.
	www.dun-na-ngall.com /tory.html (585 words)

	The Anthony Petullo Collection of SELF-TAUGHT AND OUTSIDER ART - James Dixon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dixon was born on Tory Island on June 2, 1887.
		The subjects of James Dixon’s paintings are reflective of his life on Tory Island, both in the daily activities of an islander and the objects of everyday life, rendered with meaning through his painterly vision.
		James Dixon died on Tory Island in 1970 and was buried in the cemetery along with his other siblings and family members who had spent their lives on the island.
	www.petulloartcollection.com /artistprofile.asp?refArtistID=9 (1058 words)

	Ireland - Tory Island
		Tory Island, off the coast of Donegal, is a tiny place, just 3 miles long and half a mile wide and reachable only when the weather is favourable.
		The king of Tory Island is elected by the people; currently the incumbent is Patsy Dan Rodgers, who makes it his business to personally greet every visitor on arrival.
		The island is the unlikely home of a celebrated school of painters, who work in a naif primitive style and whose work is extremely sought after internationally.
	www.dochara.com /tips/toryisland.php (422 words)

	Tory Island: part one
		When we round the head, and pass, as it were, the end of Ireland, the sea grows suddenly moody, and the low hump of Tory appears on the horizon.
		Angry and unpredictable, Tory Sound is one of the most dangerous stretches of water around our coast, regularly impassable for weeks on end during the winter months.
		That night we head down to the social club, the island's only bar (apart from the hotel, which is closed for the winter).
	www.ivenus.com /travel/ER-FullLength1-tory_island1-Wk31.asp (756 words)

	Fairwinds' Circumnavigation of Ireland June - August 2004
		We got our anchor at quarter to ten, then it was sails up and a fair wind for Tory most of the way - but with a little bit of beating at the end of course.
		Tory is a fascinating place for various reasons - it's the most remote of Ieland's inhabited offshore islands, and it is the only one still to have a king, albeit a democratically elected one.
		Approaching Tory I went to take the main down and discovered that the boom had parted company with the mast at the gooseneck, so left the boom hanging on the topping lift and flaked the sail.
	www.bluemoment.com /ireland/25.html (455 words)

	NYU > Office of Public Affairs > Artists of Tory Island, County Donegal, Ireland, Exhibit at NYU's Glucksman ...
		An exhibition of paintings by the artists of Tory Island, County Donegal, Ireland, opens on Thursday, March 3, at 7 p.m., at New York University’s Glucksman Ireland House, located at One Washington Mews (at Fifth Avenue).
		Tory is a windswept, exposed island off the rugged coast of Donegal in north-west Ireland frequently cut off from the mainland by storms and high seas.
		In 1968, four painters from Tory were featured in a show in Belfast’s New Gallery, and the informal Tory collective has continued to paint ever since.
	www.nyu.edu /public.affairs/releases/detail/201 (355 words)

	Tory Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Her grandfather, a school teacher on tiny Tory Island suggested the name Eithne, after a goddess of legend...
		From the islands of the North, the next invaders, armed with magic, came not in boats but wafting through the air like an army of spirits.
		The mightiest and most evil of the Formorian's was the one eyed Balor of the Baleful Eye, a resident of Tory Island.
	www.fortunecity.com /bally/carlow/211/tory.htm (763 words)

	Domain Ireland: Welcome to County Donegal
		In the centre of the island the wishing stone is said to be able to grant wishes if you make three circuits of the island.
		Colonies of puffins and other seabirds nest on the Island's cliffs on the northeastern side and there is a pebble beach on the south of the island.
		Tory's painters have become renowned since they started painting local scenes in a distinctive style after Tory fisherman John Dixon bet a visiting English painter, Derek Hill, that he could paint better pictures of local scenes, in 1968.
	www.irishnews.com /tourism/donegal/dltownlands.html (1213 words)

	ireland.com / Services / EXPLORE IRELAND
		About 11 kilometres from the mainland, Tory island has a history of inaccessibility which has helped to preserve a distinctive island culture despite the difficulties that this imposed.
		The island is currently populated by about 120 permanent inhabitants and is predominantly Irish-speaking.
		The legendary Balor of the Evil Eye is the island's legendary cyclops, and his Fort remains on the east coast of the island.
	www.ireland.com /explore/counties/donegal_a.htm (953 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Toraigh (Tory Island) lies 10 miles from the mainland in the Atlantic.
		The island's remoteness has been a factor in the preservation of the native Irish language, its round tower, the Tau cross, its traditions, songs, dances and way of life.
		Transport to and from the island is by boat from An Bun Beag and Machaire Rabhartaigh.
	www.donegaldirect.com /Site_Town.aspx?Town_ID=7 (157 words)

	Sligo Weekender: Discover the magic of Tory Island at Sligo art gallery
		The beauty of Tory Island has been captured forever in paintings that are now on display in Sligo Art Gallery.
		The Tory Island Painters and a selection of paintings from the Derek Hill collection from Donegal form part of the exhibition that runs until May 3.
		Dixon went on to become the “father” of a school of primitive painters on Tory Island.
	www.sligoweekender.ie /news/story.asp?j=11828 (385 words)

	cric.ca - Canada's Portal - Quick Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A Tory tidal wave swept the Island in the last provincial election, carrying away all but one lonely Liberal to stand in Opposition to Premier Pat Binns and his Conservative government.
		In the early 1990s, Tory Pat Mella was sole Opposition member in a house full of Liberals.
		She hung on and became Binns' finance minister when the Tories won in 1996.
	www.cric.ca /en_html/guide/provinc_elections/princeedwardisland_elec.html (380 words)

	University of Ulster Online - News Release
		The University of Ulster next week mounts a major celebration of the art of Tory Island, the tiny, storm-tossed island off the north-west coast of Donegal which is home to Ireland’s most evocative school of primitive painting.
		“Tory island has made an outstanding contribution to Irish music, dance and storytelling over the years and this occasion promises to be one of the most comprehensive displays of Tory art and culture ever to have been held in Ireland.
		‘Tory Island and Its Artists’ opens at the Verbal Arts Centre in Derry, on 27 May 7.30pm, and will be open to the public for one week from that date.
	www.ulst.ac.uk /news/releases/2003/781.html (322 words)

	The Island Trust: Tory Island
		Tory Island, Co.Donegal, is one of the larger and more developed islands.
		Tory School of Primitive Art is on show.
		The story of Tory Island is written up and published in ISLANDERS by Harper/Collins by Diarmuid O Peicin,C.I. with Liam Nolan
	homepage.eircom.net /~theislandtrust/tory.htm (152 words)

	Oileán Thoraí / Tory Island - nine miles off the Donegal coast, North-West Ireland
		Tory's spectacular cliff scenery is complemented by a rich and varied history which is related in the islanders distinctive Gaelic.
		Colm Cille figures prominently in the history of this sacred island which he chose as a place of retreat and meditation for his monks.
		It is the islanders themselves, like all people who live in remote places and work hard to make a living, the islanders know how to enjoy themselves and they always make a stranger feel at home.
	www.littleireland.ie /toryisland (178 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Donegal has a coastline of 200 miles, with spectacular beaches, rugged islands, scenic rivers, lakes and the highest cliffs in Europe at Slieve League.This spectacular cliff range, overlooking Donegal Bay, adopts an amber glow at sunset.
		This 4 by 1 mile island is located 8 miles off the northern mainland, the ferry for the island leaves from the Magheroarty Harbour.
		Predominantly composed of high cliffs and huge rocks, Tory Island is difficult to reach except in fine weather.
	www.iftn.ie /locations/dsp_coastline.cfm?area=Donegal (311 words)

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