Moytura's Irish
Bookshop

We now have a chat club which I hope you will join and use. It offers the chance to share and answer questions about all things Irish. Perhaps some of you will have common roots, family connections - 

If you have enjoyed your wander through the bookshop I'd love to hear your comments, good, bad or indifferent, perhaps you'd sign my 
GUEST BOOK. Or EMAIL me with any suggestions you might have.

Name: Mitch Mendler
Website: The San Diego Paramedics
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From: San Diego
Time: Saturday, November 14th, 1998 at 15:32.
Comments:

!!!!!Congratulations!!!!! You have won the E.M.S. Excellent AWARD... You have received one of the most highly prestigeous E.M.S. World Wide Web Awards... This award is only awarded to outstanding WWW sites. Thank you for your interest and congratulations again.

Mitch Mendler E.M.T. Paramedic City of San Diego Paramedic Services

Name: Angela
Website: Angela's Celtic World 
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From: Virginia via Scotland
Time: Saturday, November 14th, 1998 at 16:46
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I reviewed your page and have decided to send you this Award. I enjoyed my visit  very much.  I am Scottish so I believe in preserving heritage please also accept this second award Award

Name: Al Stewart
Website: Stewart Family Home Page
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From:
Time: Saturday, November 14th, 1998 at 18:13
Comments:

Hi,
Congratulations!!!! Your site has won an award. You have a very nice site. I enjoyed my visit to your site and will be back to visit often. I am attaching the award to this message. Just copy the code and paste it to your HTML page. Your Hard Work payed off :) Al Stewart

Name: JC
Website: Cyber Scans
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From:
Time: Saturday, November 14th, 1998 at 20:23
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Congratulations! Your web site just received our Award! Please go here for your Award Presentation! Best Regards, JC

Name: Glenn
Website: JUNO ENTERPRISES AA Project Juno
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From: Birmingham, UK
Time: Sunday, November 15th 1998 at 13:29
Comments:

Congratulations.

I have visited your site and I think it certainly deserves an award. It is a good quality site and I hope that it fulfils all that you set out to achieve. No doubt that you will receive many awards for a site of this nature. I will visit back from time to time, to check the site still exists. Your site has been given the Gold Award for Outstanding Quality. This award has been granted to you by (A A Project Juno). Congratulations once more. Regards .............Glenn (Team Leader)

Name: Jim Foster
Website: Prism - Standing In The Rain
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From:
Time: Monday, 16th. November, 1998 at 17:10
Comments:

Mary,
You have a wonderful site, beautiful pictures, great layout and easy to read and navigate.
Congratulations, Please accept our award for Global Excellence.  It's well deserved.
God Bless, Sincerely, Jim

Name: Ken and Donna Yaeger
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, USA
Time: Monday, November 16, 1998 at 16:55:05
Comments:

My wife and I will be celebrating our fortieth wedding anniversary with a trip to Ireland later this month.  I am taking a quick study in all things Irish and being a history nut came upon your outstanding material through searching for more information on Countess Markievicz.  In the week we visit the Emerald Isle we want to immerse ourselves as much as possible in information surrounding, Parnell, O'connell, De Valera, Collins and the afore mentioned heroine, Constance Markievicz.  Thank you for your lovely Web sites and enchanting musical background.  Our best wishes are extended to you and your lovely family.  Sincerely, Ken and Donna Yaeger

Name: Marilee
Website:
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From: US
Time: Thursday, November 10th, 1998 at 6:00
Comments:

Hello there,

I stumbled across your page in the directory of Telecom Internet. I had randomly clicked on various pages, and kept wondering, "Gee, aren't there any women on line in Ireland?" (I live in the States) Then I ran across your page, and was so tickled to find that not only have you built one web page--you build webpages for others. I find that exhilerating.

I wasn't able to go on your whole tour--I'm out of time, but I've bookmarked your page, and will return to see the rest. Will you be working on the Canada & Grosse-Ile pages soon? And did you make it to Canada in September? My husband and I took a 10 day vacation to Toronto in September. We always enjoy vacationing in Canada.

Well, the main reason I'm writing is to ask you about your sewing machine creations (I tend to jabber on and on about everything!). Do you, or does anyone over there, make quilts? Or is this just an American phenomenon? My curiosity got the best of me when I read about all you've
sewn on your "About Me" page. I started designing and building quilts about 10 years ago. I'm not very good at finishing projects, because my brain gets ahead of my fingers!

Well, that's a long enough letter--Blessings to you & your lovely family. Marilee

Name: Wilhelmina Diemer
Website: thinking about a home page (personal)
Referred by: AnotherSite Link
From: Fanore, Co. Clare
Time: Saturday, November 21, 1998 at 07:17:04
Comments:

 I am impressed... Good work!

Name:  Liz
Website: Forbes House
Referred by: From PowWow
From: Dublin, Ireland.
Time: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 at 16:46:34
Comments:

There is no competing with the wonderful work you've done on your HP so I've decided to redirect all my visitors towards your place. Hope you approve of the link that I've put on the site. Thoroughly enjoyed my visit, keep up the good work!

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.

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. 

Don't forget to bookmark this page and return to take up on more of your journeys with me. Oh .. and please sign my Guestbook if you have enjoyed your travels. Go raith míle maith agat - thanks a million

For those of you who are interested in tracing family links contact the Genealogical Society of Ireland