Donegal's 'screamers': The story of 1970's Atlantis Commune

In Donegal, the locals called them the “screamers”.

Parents drove their children past to stare at the big Georgian house painted in rainbow colours, daubed with zodiac symbols in the quiet village of Burtonport.

Donegal was not prepared for the radical free-thinking commune, The Atlantis Foundation, which set up home there in the 1970s.

When they arrived, they were the talk of