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LIFEFORCE
09/11/2019
Standing On a summer’s evening Atop Magical Tara’s Hill Staring at a sunset Casting its long shadow Over mystical ground Towards an ancient mound, Giving life to ...
Anticipation
09/11/2019
Awaiting At night’s end Amid assemblage This awe – inspiring Event Musing With Spirits Ancient tribes Previous witnesses On hallowed site Stillness descends Appearance of light Creeps up passageway Illuminating chamber Sacred symbols Mystical moment Sun Solstice Newgrange. 2007
An Evening in June
05/11/2019
The Scotch Pines kept sentry by the hilltop where the St. John’s Eve fire blazed. We feasted on Mi – Wadi and ...
The Photograph
05/11/2019
I walk in the clear waters of my childhood, again curious to undo the strings of the old clutch bag and live ...
Lance Corporal Anthony Naughton
31/10/2019
An Exemplary Soldier Naughton recovered from injuries sustained to return to his campaign in his short Military career. Anthony Naughton was born ...
Slievemore: The Abandoned Village
31/10/2019
You park your car on a low slope under the graveyard wall. Always there is a mound of fresh-turned earth, flowers in pottery ...
Book of Kells
28/10/2019
Ireland’s Treasured Manuscript This manuscript’s date or place of production has been the subject of considerable debate, yet it is acknowledged ...
Titanic 2012
27/10/2019
Fog across waters That are now silent Tears shed are but no more Memories of 1912 awakened By the sound of peeling bell Voices calling ...
Emily’s Butterfly
25/10/2019
A Nation Once Again: The Irish Chapbook
25/10/2019
‘Valkyrie’ Kerry Kelly is a multi-graduate, wife and mum of five. She lives in Mayo, Ireland and writing is her ...
Red Admiral by Emily Land
25/10/2019
The Robe
25/10/2019
Ballinrobe Twilight
25/10/2019
Best of the Robe
25/10/2019
Lacken and Killala
25/10/2019
Museum of Country Life Turlough, Castlebar, Co Mayo
24/10/2019
On the hither bank of the dark river, Methuselah-Heron stood, the flow of minute, nor day, nor season bothering him; this side ...
Winter Visitor
24/10/2019
The dog lay at the end of the kitchen having been evicted from under the table by the feet and legs of ...
The Return
22/10/2019
In her dream she was always walking towards or into: the sea, the road, the lane, the haggard, gate and yard, old ...
Mother Morrogh – Bernard
17/10/2019
Religious This Catholic Nun ensured a town would prosper with her work ethic. Agnes Morrogh was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England on ...
Garrarus Beach: a short journey on the last boat
16/10/2019
They are all gone now, passed away, the small group of men who had fished their small boats off the ...
Rev. Fr. John Heneghan
15/10/2019
Columban Missionary / Editor / Author This Mayo priest of the Colomban Fathers was an interesting man as an author plus ...
Famine
10/10/2019
In famine, the dead were never far from us. Parents and children lay strewn on doorsteps or along roadsides and they were so far ...
Tadhg Dall Ó ‘hÚigínn
05/10/2019
Bard Known as The Matchstick Man of Straide Tadhg Dall Ó ‘hÚigínn was one of the Country’s greatest poets. Lineage Tadhg Dall Ó ...
Charles Bianconi's Coaches
30/09/2019
This Italian immigrant revolutionized Ireland’s Transport during the early nineteenth Century. Carlo Bianconi (later angelized to Charles) was born in the ...
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louis
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DONEGAL – BY DESIGN
30/10/2019
Fergal Maguie - I am so glad I looked afresh at this article that my mother wrote in 2014!! I...
Bernd Unstaedt
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History of The Irish Currach
29/10/2019
Excellent documentation: RTÉ documentary series exploring the craft traditions of Ireland. Eddie Hutch building a curragh (1978). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1uTlZH2HJ8
Bernd Unstaedt
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History of The Irish Currach
29/10/2019
One of the most experienced masters of curragh-building on the Dingle Peninsula is Eddie Hutch. The traditional fishing-curragh is going...
Bernd Unstaedt
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History of The Irish Currach
27/10/2019
Detailed Information in: Hornell, James (11 February 1939), "British Coracles and Irish Curraghs: ISSN 1476-4687, retrieved 12 June 2018 Hornell,...
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