Inish Turk Beg

There’s an island in Clew Bay, County Mayo, known as Inishturkbeg - an anglicised form of the Irish for ‘Small Island of the Wild Boar’. It’s the most beautiful place I’ve ever known. I fell in love with it after a picnic there on my 40th birthday and bought it a little later, developing it into a home.

The island was a 63-acre sheep grazing piece of land when acquired, and 10 years later, I had installed an all-weather access system on the island, a sewage system, roads, five homes, a boatyard, fuel storage facilities, and numerous agricultural buildings.

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Later, it became the foundation for a commercial brand I launched called Inish Turk Beg. It included hospitality facilities offering smoked fish, art, music, a single malt Irish whiskey, and even a Connemara pony stud at our mainland base. I had never felt so at peace, nor more productive and creative, than on this magnificent piece of Earth.

I recall a statement I gave to the Irish Independent in 2013: "Having travelled the world, I am certain that Inish Turk Beg is one of the most beautiful places on earth. It inspires, intoxicates, enlivens. Those who come after me benefit from a decade of loving investment, building and imagining. They will not be able to repeat that, for the place is now transformed, but they can love it as I have done. I wish them well. The island and the sea have taught me many things, among which is that some journeys are orbital and you never know when you might end up back where you started again."

It was an honour and a privilege to spend a decade of my life there. 

MUSIC

Introducing the Brilliant Series from Inish Turk Beg, with Chief Islander Nadim Sadek. Inishturkbeg is an island off the coast o...

The second video about the Brilliant Irish Flute, this time looking at the first, traditional CD. The video features Irish flute...

Video no. 3 about the Brilliant Irish Flute. This time, we take a look at the second CD: a collection of contemporary played wit...

We played at the semi-final between Mayo and Kerry, of the GAA Football Championship - brilliant crowd!
A traditional medley of reels from the band, during our gig at The Button Factory in Dublin.
Hey Ya! was arranged and performed by The Inishturkbeggers. This video is of the gig at the Galway Races Carnival, in the Big Top, where we headlined on the ...
Flatlake Festival in Co. Monaghan, Ireland. The crowd rocks to a track off the 'Then' CD of The Brilliant Irish Flute http://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/the-br...
Available now on Amazon, iTunes, and select stores http://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/sex-on-fire/id412435880?i=412435987 Inish Turk Beg Sessions present 'The ...
This is a clip from the LiveTrad webcast which took place on Friday April 15th 2011. Featuring some wonderful music from 'The Brilliant Irish Flute', a doubl...

Here's Shea Fitzgerald explaining how the recording of The Brilliant Irish Flute -- which is the first Book + CD release in the ...

I'm Yours arranged and played live by The Inishturkbeggers, at the Galway Races Carnival, 2011 http://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/the-brilliant-series-the-bril...
Superstition opened the set and had the crowd running to the Big Top to hear the amazing blend of Irish sounds with great, big rock tunes! http://itunes.appl...

WHISKEY

Heart Beat shows the lives we lead, interrupted by all that we do in our daily work -- then the intoxicating rush of life that fills our lungs here on Inish Turk Beg. Hope you like it.

http://www.inishturkbeg.com/ Inish Turk Beg whiskey -- 2,888 of our first bottles on their way to you Living Life at a Tilt Inishturkbeg is an island off the coast of County Mayo in Clew Bay, with glorious 360 degree views with only the natural curvature of the earth interrupting the view to the west.
Our aged, single-malt whiskey in the best Ireland has ever produced! It's got lots of island twists - like our barrels lying on the shore, our rainwater used in reducing it from cask to bottling strength, and the hand-blown mooring buoy bottles using glass that contains some sand from our shores!
During the set at Flatlake, mysteriously, our Brilliant Irish Whiskey joined our Brilliant Irish Flute...and one of the bottles was emptied! http://itunes.ap...
Our aged, single-malt whiskey in the best Ireland has ever produced! It's got lots of island twists - like our barrels lying on the shore, our rainwater used...

ART

Here's an introduction to Life Vividly Lived, Pt. 2 -- the second annual Artists' Residency from Inish Turk Beg. An inspiring array of talent came together for our 2010 Residency.

Here's Patrick Murphy -- co-curator of Life Vividly Lived, Pt. 2 -- sharing his thoughts on the second artists' residency on Ini...

Life Vividly Lived, Part 1 - Flower's Gallery, London

Back in September 2010, 7 visual artists were invited to an art residency on Inishturkbeg. The intention was to harness their cr...

RTE's highly rating magazine programme featured Inish Turk Beg during March 2011
http://www.inishturkbeg.com/ Inish Turk Beg means Small Island of the Wild Boar, in Irish. The shape of our logo is the shape of the island, as seen from the...
Spontaneously filmed, gorgeous sunset that just appeared...setting over Achill. Mná Na hÉireann is the track that plays, first by the Inish Turk Beggers from...
The Time is Now meeting on Inish Turk Beg "Vision without action is merely daydreaming. Action without vision is passing the time. But vision with action can...

Inishturkbeg is an island off the coast of County Mayo in Clew Bay, with glorious 360 degree views with only the natural curvatu...

http://www.inishturkbeg.com/ Inishturkbeg is an island off the coast of County Mayo in Clew Bay, with glorious 360 degree views with only the natural curvatu...