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Name: Molly Maguire Bullister
Website:
Referred by: From Search
Engine
From: St. Simons Island,
GA, USA
Time: Thursday, February
25, 1999 at 11:14:35
Comments:
I am signing on now just
as I have completed my journey through your eyes. I am so filled
with emotion and tears of joy from the experience, I feel I must express
it now before it passes. Hopefully, we will be in contact later.
I am a 66 year-old Irish-American who found my soul in Connemara just 3
years ago while visiting my husband's family, the Bolustroms of Spiddal
and Ballynahown, Co. Galway. I had often heard my mother-in-law speak
of the area and longed to go and find "our people" (seems to be an illness
amongst us yanks) I am preparing now for my third trip back beginning
March 20 and ending sadly April ll. for some reason, tears come always
on the complete 7 hour trip home. This year I am planning to spend
a day on Cashel Bay with my husband's cousins there and from Charlestown.
Traveling your journey through the west has given me grand ideas for spending
precious moments there. I have copied your pages and will carry them
with me. I cannot express what a joy this has been and how fortunate
am I that I can relive it over and over! I feel we have been friends
forever. I also have 5 grown children and try to create things but
hardly near the scale of your accomplishments. Love and God Bless.
Your new friend, Molly
Record
202
Name: Joanna Trotter
Website:
Referred by: From Search
Engine
From: Chicago, Il. USA
Time: Thursday, February
25, 1999 at 13:48:36
Comments:
Hello, I am from Chicago,
My grandparents from Westport, Rossmindle, Killameena to be more precise.
I enjoy your web site, there is a lot of work put in there, thank you for
your generosity. May God (and the universe) bless the sharers of
the world. I have been searching Irish sites for info on retreats spiritual,
health, meditative not necessarily religious and definitely not costly,
but to no avail. Having lived in Kerry for almost 6 years I know
they are out there but cannot get online info or thru the counsulate here
or travel agencies or tourist board. Maybe I should go back and live
there and do this for a living. Right now I am planning a visit with
friends in July and August and wanted to go off on my own for a bit.
I know I can make my own retreat but being high tourist time and not being
so disiplined I was hoping to have other options. Do you know of
any such places?? Or any of your friends? Suggestions if anyone has
the time and inclination? Thanks for hearing me out and again for the informative,
interesting and beautiful site.
As they say in your neck
of the woods, fair play to you, you're a mighty woman. Great site
I shall pass it on to friends here and in Ireland. Thank you for
your time and generousity. As I said before God Bless the sharers
of this world.
Record
203
Name: Molly
Website:
Referred by: Yahoo Games
From: USA
Time: Friday, February 26,
1999 0:04
Comments:
Loved reading your profile
and follow-up! I was in Ireland, Wales, Scotland & England this
past September. Had a beer in a Dublin pub and all the men were so
friendly & nice when they learned we were from America.
Maybe we'll meet up at the tables in Yahoo one day soon.
Record
204
Name: Tom Bowen
Website: Tom's
Hood
Referred by: From VoxPhone
From: Pennsylvania, US
Time: Friday, February 26,
1999 at 18:57:02
Comments:
Thanks Mary. This time I
had a little more time to look around. Your page is a place I will come
back to often. It is a nice walk around lovely places. I certainly am glad
we met.
Record
205
Name: Kevin Joyce
Website: Connemarble
Referred by: Search Engine
From: Recess, Connemara,
County Galway
Time: Sunday, February 28,
1999 at 18:04:45
Comments:
I found your delightful site
while looking up Irish green marble. Invite you to our site, which we are
upgrading in a week or so. Best wishes, Kevin
Record
206
Name: Theresa
Website: Gram's
Little Dolly
Referred by: Another Site
Link
From: New York, USA
Time: Sunday, February 28,
1999 at 19:18:22
Comments:
I found you on the LOTH boards.
You have a truly beautiful site! My Grandparents were from Mayo and
Galway, and I always wanted to visit Ireland. Hopefully, I will get there
soon! Your site is very informative, and makes me want to go even more!
Great work! Take Care! :)
Record
207
Name: Bob Griffin
Website:
Referred by: Search Engine
From: USA
Time: Wednesday, March 03,
1999 2:13
Comments:
Please pardon me right from
the start - I have been to Blarney and kissed the Stone - my eloquence
flows not from my mouth, as I am very shy, but from my fingers. I
have had a few gin and tonics tonight, feeling melancholy and the music
accompanying your web site has put me in the proper mood - must be the
"Irish" in me...........
I have had the pleasure of
spending a night in Galway and it was not the Sunset on Galway Bay but
the Moon, and what a glorious site it was, watching it rise out of the
Bay and flood the night with the most cheerful light. It was a fortuitous
visit to Galway as I and my family were on vacation from a posting (I'll
use the 'local' term) to Africa with the 'Foreign Service' and on our way
back after a brief visit to the States (no, we didn't visit McDonalds or
Burger King!!!) we planned a stop in Ireland, just because. Our plane landed
in Dublin and we spent the night in a local B&B recommended from the
airport - what a disaster......I had three children and two of them were
very young and, well you know kids!!!! Anyway, the BBC1&2 nor
ITV had much of their interest so they made their own.....much to the dismay
of the over 80's crowd watching Coronation Street!!! My poor wife
was upstairs taking a cold bath (no warm showers in this hostelry) and
was aghast to find out that there were no curtains in the bath.....after
disrobing slinking along the floor the slip into the tub and doing the
reverse on the way out. Horny old goat that I am, I wish I was there
to watch.....anyway, I digress. The next morning we set off.
No itinerary and no schedule except we had to be back in ten days to catch
our flight back to Africa (Dublin-Gatwick and then to Monrovia via British
Caledonia Airways).
Anyway, back to the trip....drove
out of Dublin and headed north destination unknown. Spent the first
night in a seaside town, name escapes me. There was a fair at the time,
we took the kids over but it really didn't have too much to offer but,
there was a posting for a get together at the hall that evening.
What the heck, when in Rome...... it is a memory that lives to this day.
A nice get together of locals downing pints and whiskeys, nice music etc
but the memory is my little daughter standing on my feet while we danced.
She was thrilled that Dad was dancing with her!!! The approving smiles
and the waiting pint on my return made me feel more than welcome. The next
day off again in our rental vehicle - driving on the 'wrong' side of the
road and shifting gears with the 'wrong' hand. As I said, no destination
but the road in front of us. The highlight of every day for all of us was
the beef barley soup at the pubs and dad having his pint of Guiness. Now
I have had Guiness while I was in England - not the same. I should be on
the Guiness/Ireland tourist board because my plea would be....."Drink Guiness,
it's good for you.....but tastes BEST in Ireland!!!!" That damn Blarney
Stone has me in its grip now.......Next night was spent in a town called
Glen Gariff.....easy to remember since my name is Griffin!! I was
totally in awe of the rocks and rock mountains that led us there. We stayed
at a B&B - a real one, unlike the hotel B&B the previous night.
I felt so uncomfortable when I arrived, like an unwanted guest. We really
didn't mix that night, although invited to have drinks in the parlor. The
next morning at breakfast, what a fool I was because they were the nicest
people, the kids went out and played, the little harbor came right up the
back of the house - a glorious sight and the people, both the owners and
other guests so friendly.....my only true regret for the entire tour was
not opening up to feel at home...of course I had not kissed the Blarney
Stone yet!!! So now we are in the southern part and still following
the road around.....next stop Galway. Well, that sounds kind of definitive
but it was not. As I said we were driving with no itinerary but as
we got to Galway and drove through the town, not a lot really appealed
to us so we kept going. Just outside of the city center we passed a Motel
that kind of reminded us of a U.S. Holiday Inn. Barbara and I looked
at each other but decided something that 'posh' would be beyond our budget
and kept driving. Well, it was getting late and the sun setting so we said,
what the heck, we'll spend the extra money and headed back. Gee, all these
words, I hope you're not bored but catching the excitement!! Checked
in, cheap rates, great rooms, fabulous dinner and then to the lounge....heck
if your in Ireland its a sin not to drink the whiskey (or is it whisky??-
I think thats Scotch but that's another story....in Scotland on another
trip...!!) Entertainment in the lounge - a couple of local lads with a
guitar but as I'm downing my whiskey a light starts to reflect on the bay
and there it is ..... MOON OVER GALWAY BAY.....the thoughts of my Dad and
the times we would sit at the kitchen table and sing...geez, I'm getting
weepy now, but there you have it. Thanks for the reminder. If you're
interested in the rest of our trip, I'd be glad to relate but suffice it
to say one of the fondest, dearest and sweetest memories was our trip around
the Isle and watching the MOON RISE OVER GALWAY BAY. With fondest regards
and best wishes, love...
Bob Griffin
Record
208
Name: Ed Hagan
From: Raleigh, NC, USA
Website:
Referred by: From Search
Engine
Time: Wednesday, March 3,
1999 at 21:50:12
Comments:
Very interesting account
of your journey combined with history and great pictures. I only wish I
could have seen something like this before my only visit to Ireland some
30 years ago. I visited most of the places you covered, but knew nothing
of the significance of the towns and sights. I hope to visit again in the
next year and this time I will be better prepared.
Record
209
Name: Marilyn Dennison
From: Vermont, USA
Website:
Referred by:
Time: Saturday, March 06,
1999 17:38
Comments:
Dear Mary,
I played bridge with you
and checked your profile...wonderful website..sent it to my team teacher
who is Irish...she will love it...also another teacher in Vt. with whom
I play bridge....and has designed her own. Now for the question about
the piano music....can you tell me what it is and what cd it is on.? You
certainly have done a magnificent job with your site and family...the two
young boys are quite gregarious looking....I teach that age...
Saturday: I have spent the
entire afternoon reading your entire site. As I stated earlier.....
WONDERFUL. It is terrific that you have found a career change which
you enjoy so much...so creative, well written, and well designed.
I am envious of you but grateful for people like you that entertain non-creative
ones like I.
Sincerely,
Marilyn Dennison
Record
210
Name: Dale Johnston
From: Edina Minnesota USA
Website:
Referred by: Another Site
Link
Time: Saturday, March 6,
1999 at 13:13:51
Comments:
I am tracing my ancestry,
my Great Great Grandparents, who were born somewhere in Ireland. I suspect
they entered Canada at Grosse Ile, Quebec. What a great presentation of
Grosse Ile. I too am a Graphic Designer. Thank you for sharing your creativity.
For those who have just
joined me on this page why not go to the beginning of our travels and see
some of the places in The Start of Our Journey
through the West of Ireland.
My
Place Amongst the Stones gives the history of my company name, Moytura
- a celtic heritage going back thousands of years.
We journey to my own parish
of Lackagh - a small village just 12 miles from
Galway with a mighty big history. Learn all about the Battle
of Knockdoe - one of Ireland's bloodiest of conflicts in the 16th century.
We then move on to take a
quick jaunt around Galway City; and then to the
heart of Connemara - with its wild and wonderful
beauty.
From there we journey south
into County Clare and see The Burren - a place
that has lain undisturbed since the Ice-age and of immense botanical, ecological
and archaeological importance.
Visit Ireland's finest early
monastic heritage centre in Clonmacnoise,
County Offaly; and to my favourite of all the early Christian Church locations
- Clonfert, South County Galway, with its beautiful
tiny 12th century Cathedral of Saint Brendan. Come with me around the grounds
and see the Bishop's Palace and the 1000 year
old Yew Walk.
While on the Clonfert pages,
you can learn a potted history of Saint Brendan
the Navigator, possibly the first European to set foot in North America
in the 6th. century. And join me in the celebrations when this tiny cathedral
was listed in the World Monuments Watch 2000
most endangered monuments.
Come with me on my 'Famine
Journey' which starts in Westport, and moves
to Sligo, my Dad's County and the departure port
for many of the 'Coffin Ships'. This part of my
journey ends in Grosse-Île on a tiny
island east of Quebec City.
On this page you will learn
some of the history of our Famine Refugees and find the final resting place
of over 6,000 of my country folk who died within sight of their first freedom
in over 300 years. This is where many of the Irish roots in North America
started.
Our Journey moves on to other
places on that visit to Canada where we see Quebec
City and some of Ontario's lovely places
and then to two of Canada's famous Catholic Shrines - Saint
Anne de Beaupré and to Cap-de-la-Madeleine.
Finally, join me on my pilgrimage
to a peaceful haven in a war-torn country in Medugorje
in Bosnia-Hercegovinia. The other areas of my Web site can be found in
the drop-down box below.
If you are interested in
Irish history or anything to do with Ireland why not visit our new additions
where you will find a large selection of genuine Irish goods as well as
Irish reading, music & viewing material!:
Moytura's
Irish Store, Moytura's
Irish Bookshop, Moytura's
Irish Music Store, and Moytura's
Irish Video Store
I have added links
pages of other places related to the places we visit, links
to leisure activities in Ireland i.e. golf, fishing, horse riding,
sailing in Ireland, festivals, entertainment etc. and some of my friends'
home pages.
Go raith míle maith
agat - thanks a million
Beannacht Dé Ort
- bain taitneamh as do thuras.
God Bless and Enjoy
Your 'Journey'
Oh, I nearly forgot......come
and meet me and mine HERE
See some of the awards received
for this site HERE.
For
those of you who are interested in tracing you family ancestry these pages
might help, just hit the banners to go directly to each site or check out
our Trace Your Ancestry
pages first where you can see some of the vast numbers of data base
lists and try out an on-line search for yourself.
Every
now and then people send me stories, poems, or URLs to other Home Pages
that I find very touching or uplifting, they can be found at the links
below. Some will make you smile, maybe even laugh, some may make you cry
or a little sad - but all will leave a little bit of a mark, if only for
the few minutes you spend reading or listening to them. Enjoy - I call
this section:
"PRAYERFUL
THOUGHTS & THOUGHTFUL PRAYERS"
CIRCLE
THE WORLD WITH PRAYER
Could
you DONATE just
10 minutes of your time a day?? If Yes then- GIVE
IT TO GOD! Great rewards and long-term benefits!
Invitation open to ANYONE, ANYWHERE, ANY RELIGION
& NONE!!
Check
out the WHY, WHERE, WHEN & HOW here:
Circle
of Prayer Then ask yourself the
question - WHY NOT?!?!
Celtic
Women International
Celtic Women International
is a young and vibrant organisation founded by Jean Bills, a woman with
Irish roots living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is now in growth phase and
expanding membership throughout the whole world for ANYONE (yes,
even the guys!) with Celtic roots. It's purpose is to honour,
celebrate and promote our Celtic Heritage. In the near future we hope to
be a resource for all things Celtic with databases of other Celtic Organisations,
Support Bodies, Music & the Arts etc. Membership, for only $25!!, incorporates
a quarterly newsletter with the finest of articles related all things Celtic.
Our annual conference brings
together some of the best advocates of Celtic Traditions as well as musicians
and artists representing the recognised Celtic Nations of Ireland, Cornwall,
Scotland, Wales, The Isle of Man, Brittany and Galicia and Asturia in Spain.
2002 sees the conference on the move
and will be held in New Orleans, 2003 in Toronto, 2004 in Pheonix and 2005
in GALWAY, IRELAND! Please help us
to grow this wonderful organisation by joining us as a member. All are
very welcome and your presence can only enrich us. Learn all about us at:
Celtic
Women International
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found below:.
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