Qualla: Portrush https://qualla.com/portrush en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Portrush https://qualla.com/portrush Portrush: Introduction https://qualla.com/portrush/ Flint tools found at Portrush in the late nineteenth century push the human story here back to around 4000 BC, late in the Irish Mesolithic. People have been standing on this mile-long peninsula and looking at the Atlantic for six thousand years. The shape of the town now is more recent. The old part - the hotels, the bars, the railway station - sits on Ramore Head, a finger of land pushing north into the sea. Two long beaches, West Strand and East Strand, hold the town between them. The Royal Portrush Golf Club is on the east edge. Barry's Amusements, or what used to be called that, is on the west. And the air, on most days, smells of salt and chips and rain that has not quite arrived.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/6/portrush-wp/gcg6-portrush-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Portrush: Two Castles That Are No Longer There https://qualla.com/portrush/ Portrush's natural defences - a narrow peninsula with cliffs on three sides - probably attracted a permanent settlement by the twelfth or thirteenth century. A church stood on Ramore Head then, important enough to appear in the papal taxation records of 1306, but nothing of it su...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/6/portrush-wp/gcg6-portrush-two-castles-that-are-no-longer-there.mp3 0:06 2 full Portrush: The Railway and the Resort https://qualla.com/portrush/ The change came with the trains. The Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Portrush Junction Railway opened in 1855. By the turn of the twentieth century, Portrush was one of the major resort towns of Ireland, full of large hotels and boarding houses - the Northern Counties Hotel ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/6/portrush-wp/gcg6-portrush-the-railway-and-the-resort.mp3 0:06 3 full Portrush: Three Killings and a Bombing https://qualla.com/portrush/ Portrush largely escaped the Troubles. The town's worst day came on 3 August 1976, when a series of bombings burned out several buildings without causing loss of life. In April 1987, on Main Street, the Provisional IRA shot two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers in the back while...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/6/portrush-wp/gcg6-portrush-three-killings-and-a-bombing.mp3 0:06 4 full Portrush: The Open Comes Home https://qualla.com/portrush/ Royal Portrush hosted the Open Championship in 1951 - Max Faulkner won, the first Open held outside Great Britain. The championship came back in 2019, after the course was rebuilt, and Shane Lowry won. It returned again in 2025, when Scottie Scheffler took the Claret Jug. The Roy...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/6/portrush-wp/gcg6-portrush-the-open-comes-home.mp3 0:06 5 full Portrush: The Sails and the Skerries https://qualla.com/portrush/ On the East Strand stands a thirteen-foot bronze sculpture called To the People of the Sea, by the Cork-based artist Holger Lönze. Its forms come from the sails of Drontheim yawls, the traditional boats of this coast. Just offshore, a chain of small rocky islets called the Skerri...

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