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September 22nd, 2011 | 
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This is from: “The Very Best of James Galway”. The pictures are from: “The Essence of Stonehenge”. Sir James Galway playing: Danny Boy”
Preview of Brad2512′s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Galway, Ireland Entry Title: “Dublin to Galway” Entry: “We began our little three day tour with the lovely folk of Paddy Wagon Tours and our group of 32 consisting mainly of Australians and Canadians. The traffic on the way out of Dublin on a Monday morning was chaotic to say the least. Our first stop was the Phoenix Park which I am told is the second largest city park in the world after Gorky Park Moscow. The park has its own zoo and fallow deer have roamed freely within its grounds since the 17th century. The park is located approximately 3 km west of Dublin’s centre and has a total size of 712 hectors. A central feature of the Park is a huge steel cross erected for the 1979 Papal visit to Dublin which pulled a crowd of one and a quarter million people, almost a third of Ireland’s population at that time. Our next stop was the Ancient Ecclesiastical site of Clonmacnoise which sits by the River Shannon. This Monastery was founded by St. Ciaran in about 548 and was situated at the cross-road of Ireland where north and south artery of communication crossed the major east west route. The location’s pivotal point added to its importance as a centre of religion, trade, learning, craftsmanship and political influence. There are a number of ruins of old churches on the site plus a large cemetery …
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Preview of Caitk’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Galway, Ireland Entry Title: “Exploring and Starting the “Study” of Study Abroad” Entry: “9/11/10 WENT TO THE CLIFFS OF MOHER AND THE BURREN! So, so cool. The scenery was unbelievable. Our tour guide was a little Irish man named Desmond and quite the character. We saw Dunguaire Castle, The Burren (vast limestone area), Gleninsheen Wedge Tomb, the 5800 year old Poulnabrone Dolmen, Ballyalban Fairy Fort- apparently home to many a leprechaun, Kilfenora to see the famous Celtic Crosses, stopped for lunch at a pub in Doolin after driving through the annual “Matchmaking Festival” in the town of Lisdoonvarna, and then finally arrived at the Cliffs (200 meters high and 8 kilmometers long)! The weather held out for the most part and we had such a great time. We hiked to the top and the view was amazing. On our trip back we drove the shoreline which was beautiful, we could even see the Aran Islands (tentative date for that trip is October 16 with the International Students Society—woo!) in the distance. I really enjoyed the trip, it was great to see some of Ireland outside of Galway. It was a wonderful afternoon…the pictures honestly do not do the Irish landscape justice. I am looking forward to more tours and getting to see some of the surrounding area. Came back, had a quick shower, and got ready …
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Pádraig Ó Fathaigh ( 1879-1976) was a lifelong Gaelic Leaguer and teacher of Irish. Already a prominent member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Volunteers before 1916, O Fathaigh was arrested on Easter Tuesday before he could join forces with Liam Mellows. He spent the next year undergoing penal servitude, the first of four terms of imprisonment between 1916 and 1920. When at liberty he acted as an intelligence officer in South Galway and Mid-Clar… More >>
Pádraig Ó Fathaigh’s War of Independence: Recollections of a Galway Gaelic Leaguer
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Galway, Ireland
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Originally posted 2010-09-05 20:35:59.
Galway, Ashford Castle, Hawk Walk
