Rebuilding Lives in Northern Ireland
Posted in This and That on Aug 24th, 2014
Larrybane, Co Antrim along the North Coast, is where the Carrick-Rede Rope Bridge is located. It is exceptional in its natural beauty. It once stretched out toward Sheep Island and had a promontory fort on the top dating to 800 A.D. It also had large caves underneath which once served as home to boat builders […]
Posted in This and That on Aug 17th, 2014
The annual Puck Fair in Killorglin, Co Kerry is held for three days beginning Aug 10. At this time a group of people go into the mountains and catch a goat. He is then put into a cage in the middle of the town signifying the start of the merrymaking. A young girl is crowned […]
Posted in This and That on Aug 5th, 2014
Sticks have been used as weapons since fighting began, but the skilled use of hardwood clubs by the people of Shillelagh, Co Wicklow, led to these being called ‘shillelaghs’ by King Richard ll in 1395. The term spread throughout the world in reference to the weighted fighting stick.
Posted in This and That on Jul 16th, 2014
Warren Buffet has called U.S. philanthropist Chuck Feeney his hero and inspiration. Buffet presented Feeney with the ‘Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award.’ Feeney was instrumental in the 1991 Irish Peace Process and underwrote Sinn Fein’s office in U.S. as they forged a political path. His giving away 6 billion dollars inspired Buffet and Bill Gates […]
Posted in This and That on Jun 26th, 2014
In Ireland children celebrating birthdays are traditionally raised into the air upside down and their heads are bumped gently against the floor, one bump for every year of age and an extra bump to grow on.
Posted in This and That on Jun 2nd, 2014
St. Ciaran is said to be the first born of the Irish saints since he preached Christianity before the arrival of St Patrick.
Posted in This and That on May 29th, 2014
Sinn Fein has set out proposals to establish a revolutionary quarter in Dublin City Center around the buildings and lanes where the end of the Easter Rising took place in 1916.
Posted in This and That on May 10th, 2014
The dandelion is called the ‘Irish daisy’.
Posted in This and That on Apr 22nd, 2014
The Irish Book of Invasions was compiled in the 12th Century and relates several waves of mythological invasions of Ireland. During the Fifth Wave the Tuatha de Danann invaded Ireland, arriving through mists.
Posted in This and That on Apr 13th, 2014
A rare hybrid of goat/sheep, called a ‘geep’ was born to a ewe owned by farmer Paddy Murphy of Kildare. It has longer legs than a sheep, has budding horns and is a lot faster than the other born at the same time. The ewe has taken to the hybrid and teats it just like […]
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