We are launching our new breakfast menu later this month with some lovely new additions which have been prepared by Tim O'Sullivan and his Team in the kitchen.
You can preview the Renvyle House Breakfast Menu
photographs taken by Aoife Herriott
Well, if the first couple of days of Summer are anything to go by, all the facilities (free to our guests by the way) will be used to their full extent. Here are some photographs taken yesterday in preparation for the June Bank Holiday weekend and the holidaymakers to come.
photographs taken by Zoe Fitzgerald
Conamara Bog Week 2011
May 27th to Jne 6th in Letterfrack and the Renvyle Peninsula
"A Festival comprising of music, cycling, walking, dancing and a hint of madness!Conamara is probably the largest area of outstanding beauty in the whole of Ireland. It is a complex area and we will be attempting to create a warm, nonthreatening space in which people can somehow touch this magical landscape."
With great walks and talks held at Renvyle House Hotel. Hotel residents can join the guided walk for free:
Thursday 2nd June, 9pm at Renvyle House Hotel: 'New Discoveries in Conamara' – a talk by Michael Gibbons (free admission)
Friday 3rd June, 11am at Renvyle House Hotel: a guided walk with Michael Gibbons, archaeologist. €15.00 to non-residential guests
Click here for more information –> Conamara Bog Week 2011 Programme
A snippet from last year's Festival:
Fly-fishing weekend at Renvyle House
A very comprehensive write up of the Hardy & Grey's weekend held in Renvyle in April 2011 in the June 2011 edition of the Irish Angler magazine;
To view it, please click on the link below.
Irish Angler Review of Renvyle's Hardy & Greys Fly Fishing Weekend
Bread being prepared for the day
Yes, we will be renovating our website very soon. We hope it will be even easier for you the user to us, even moreso than the current one. Yesterday's excercise was to update our photographs with the updated bedrooms and of course Tim and his team's delicious food from breakfast through to dinner.
A busy morning and have to admit, I buckled at the warm chocolate pudding and once the photo was professionally taken I had a taste which led to a pretty clean plate!
Please find a gallery below. Keep in mind that these images are taken from my mobile phone so really don't do the food justice, but Aoife will have the real ones for us soon.
Renvyle House Hotel Connemara, Arts & Crafts Fireplaces
This post is to explain somewhat, the architecture and design of the old house at Renvyle House. It is a country house, a low lying Lutynesque style which suits it rural coastal location (it is not a country manor as most of us might imagine). The house was rebuilt in the Arts and Crafts style after it had been burned down in the Irish Civil of the 1920′s. There are over 20 different orifinal fireplaces throughout the house which have been recorded in the Album below. You will also see from our old Brochures, one from the 1930′s (on this Blog) that the present owners have maintained the ethos of this building as much as possible.
Wikipedia describe the Arts & Crafts Movement as, (and here is where I get lazy, as I would not be able to put it much better!): "an international design movement that originated in England and flourished between 1880 and 1910, continuing its influence up to the 1930s. Instigated by the artist and writer William Morris (1834–1896) in the 1860s and inspired by the writings of John Ruskin (1819–1900), it had its earliest and fullest development in the British Isles but spread to Europe and North America as a reaction against the impoverished state of the decorative arts and the conditions under which they were produced.
The movement advocated truth to materials and traditional craftsmanship using simple forms and often medieval, romantic or folk styles of decoration. It also proposed economic and social reform and has been seen as essentially anti-industrial."
There's plenty more information, but I think I might try to write it myself.
In the meantime, here are some of the many Arts and Crafts fireplaces in the public areas and bedrooms in the hotel (not all mind you). They are each unique, with a unique design, in fact fairly unique architecturally in Ireland.
A brief lesson in Wine Tasting by Ross Golden-Bannon
Ross Golden-Bannon, Editor of Food & Wine Magazine, was with us at the weekend imparting great information about taste and flavours and how wines work with food. He gave a brief tutorial on how ones tastes wine prior to the Wine Tasting at Renvyle House:
Shamrock
St. Patrick's day seems to be the turning point for Spring in Ireland. People come out of their shells and there's an air of celebration. Most try to keep to traditional meals on the day such as Bacon and Cabbage or a Lamb dish of some sort. An Irish Fry with brown sodabread is a great start to the day.
Here are some nice Irish phrases for you to try out tomorrow!
"Aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile"
Translation: "One beetle recognises another"
Meaning: It takes one to know one; Like sees like
"Dúirt bean liom go ndúirt bean léi"
Translation: "A woman told me that a woman told her . . ."
Meaning: Don't believe everything you are told. It may be just gossip.
"Mol an óige agus tiocfaidh siad"
Translation: "Praise the youth and they will come"
"Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin"
Translation: "There's no hearth like your own hearth"
Meaning: There's no place like home
Tim's Connemara Rack of Lamb
Tim has kindly given us a nice recipe for Connemara Rack of Lamb. Although it is still a bit early for Connemara lamb, lamb from other parts of Ireland can also be used with great success. In this recipe, Tim has timed the cooking for 'rare'. If you would like to cook it to 'medium', cook it for 35 minutes. And for medium to well done cook it for 40 minutes.
Welcome to the new Blog for Renvyle House Hotel. Here we hope to keep you posted on all the recent activity and upcoming events associated with Renvyle. We hope you enjoy the images and videos and we will be looking forward to reading your comments and feedback on our blog.
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