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Connecting the Dots Between Canada and Ireland
This year, I will be Going home to Ireland as part of a massive tourism initiative called The Gathering 2013. In the late 1790s, rebellion against British occupation was in the air in Ireland,...
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Tracing Irish Heritage through Eastern Ontario
Visiting the Ottawa Valley to find my Irish roots This year, 2013, as Ireland celebrates The Gathering (a year of festivities to welcome back the Irish Diaspora), I am retracing my family’s history....
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Ireland’s Megalithic Cemeteries Date Back as EArly as 4,000 BC
William Butler Yeats once said, “In Ireland, this world and the world we go to after death are not far apart.” Ireland has certainly seen its share of tragedy, from famines to wars to strife between...
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The Gathering & Researching Your Geneology In Ireland
As I wrote this post in Dublin, I was eating a crisp apple that came from an orchard on the Blackwater Castle estate in Castletownroche, Ireland. It was perhaps the best apple I have ever eaten —...
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A Very Scenic Walk Around West Ireland's Historical Westport House
Designed by the famous architects Richard Cassels and James Wyatt in the 18th century, Westport House is located west of the Shannon and is one of Irelands’ most beautiful historic homes. I was there...
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The Legend Behind the Irish Claddagh Ring
Curious what do hookers and the Irish Claddagh ring have in common? A romantic history steeped in tradition and loyalty. The claddagh ring, made up of a heart (representing love), a crown (symbolizing...
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Museum of Country Life in County Mayo, Ireland
This past July, I had spent two nights enjoying the warm hospitality of my friends Judy and Jimmy on their off-the-grid organic farm paradise (no running water or electricity; a river runs through it)...
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