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Where Ireland's Greatest Playwright Found His Masterpiece in the Salty Wind

The evocative etymology of Geesala (Gaoth Sáile - pronounced "GWEE-hay-la") preserves in its Gaelic meaning "salty wind" or "land of the salty breeze" the atmospheric essence of this remote Gaeltacht village on Mayo's Erris Peninsula, where John Millington Synge discovered the…

Geesala is a small place in County Mayo. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.