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LONDONDERRY ARMS FEATURES IN STORY FIT FOR
THE QUEEN
Used with kind permission of Valerie Martin and the Larne
Times
Published Date: 03 June 2009
THE owner of the historic Londonderry Arms Hotel this week
spoke of his surprise and delight that the hotel is featuring in a
magazine that counts the Queen among its readers.
The oldest weekly women's magazine in England, The Lady, this
week features a story set in the Carnlough hotel - as well as
mentioning some of Northern Ireland's top tourist spots.
"A Means to an End" is by Armagh-based writer Pamela Rea,
and tells the story of a woman who has married into money and is
trying to impress with her taste in art. Taking advice from an
art-dealer friend, she ends up on the receiving end of the twist
in the tale.
But it was the famed Londonderry Arms itself that inspired
Ms Rea to write the piece.
"I just went to stay there once, but it made a big
impression on me," she said.
She said her visit spurred her with a desire to promote the
hotel, and indeed short story, does just that.
The main character in her story, Lady Dinah Penrose, refers
to the popular establishment as "delightful" and mentions how she
"sinks into the comfortable chairs" along with references to the
gastronomic delights on the menu and the atmospheric surroundings.
Londonderry Arms owner Frank O'Neill said it was "a great
surprise" to hear that the hotel had featured in such a
prestigious publication.
"Naturally, we all at the Londonderry Arms are absolutely
thrilled to be featured.
"Not only is it good for the hotel but also for the Antrim
Coast and other parts of Northern Ireland, such as Fermanagh.
"To have a short story featuring the hotel in The Lady is
delightful for us, and for the author as well.
"If Lady Londonderry was alive today she would have been
very pleased indeed," Mr O'Neill said.
The Lady describes its readership as "an affluent audience"
who "live in wealthy areas throughout the UK, with a particularly
high representation in London and the prosperous Home Counties".
Established in 1885, The Lady's original mission was "to
deal with the many subjects in which ladies are interested, in a
manner at once fully and completely, yet not tiresome: to provide
information without dullness and entertainment without vulgarity". |
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