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Designing Donegal - Sheila Clancy O'Donnell

Image of a girl lying in grass and a man with a black sheep around his shoulders in front of a thatched cottage and misty mountains
Fashion shoot by Annie Liebowitz

My Name is Sheila Clancy O'Donnell. I hail from Albany, New York and now live in Donegal with my husband and two children. I love living here and have recently developed the exciting new Foundations in Fashion Design and Merchandising Course for Secondary Schools at the LYIT.

I studied Fashion Design & Merchandising at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, where we had amazing opportunities to work with top NY designers like... Read more.

Project

Honey, Bees and Business

Image of a bee hovering over flowers

Do you know that we have our own native honey bee here in Ireland? The Native Irish Honey Bee is often called the ‘Black Bee’ as it is generally dark in colour – although it can vary on occasion. It is a strain of the Dark European Honey Bee (... Read more.

Donegal Pens - A Writers Companion

Image of Ronan and Conor McGarvey

Donegal Pens was established in 2009, by teenagers Ronan and Conor McGarvey, from Loughanure. The homemade pens are individually turned, polished, waxed and then carefully examined to ensure a high quality and the perfect gift. The pens are made... Read more.

Place

Teach Mhici Mac Gabhann

image of old white house with thatched roof and red door against blue sky

Teach Mhici Mac Gabhann is the birth place of Mickey McGowan, the author of Rotha Mor an tSaoil (The Hard Road to Klondike). It is located in Gortahork, County Donegal.

Born in 1865 in Donegal, the eldest of twelve children in a poverty-... Read more.

LYIT Higher Education Campus

Students at LYIT

Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT)  has two modern campuses in Letterkenny and Killybegs.  It employs 350 staff and has over 3,000 full-time students who come from all over Ireland and from 30 different countries to study.

The... Read more.