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: Henri François (ritonton)
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Gent, Belgium
Time: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 at 23:25:39
Comments:

Looking up your profile while playing bridge I discovered this. You made a wonderfull job of your site and I enjoyed our game of bridge tonight.
Congratulations. Henri

Name: Eddie Moloney
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Limerick. Ireland
Time: Saturday, November 28, 1998 at 20:07:21
Comments:

Excellent job in setting up your Web Page. I was impressed.

Name: Frank Kelly
Website:
Referred by:  Just Cruised On In
From: Australia
Time: Tuesday, December 1, 1998 at 02:03:34
Comments:

A pleasant journey

Name: Kevin J Dundon
Website:
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Time: Tuesday, December 1st, 1998 at 22:27.
Comments:

Thanks for the experience - I just loved the web page you have set up, thanks for the fun. I am an example of democracy in action - Moms from Manchester Dad from Carlow and they had to elope to San Francisco in the late 50's due to the in laws

I am in the printing business and work with designers all the time I need some help though. Could you tell me who the Printers in Ireland buy their paper from? A company name or two would help me out on a project I am involved in. I love the house it reminds me of one my Uncle has overlooking the Head of Kinsale. (I wish I were Still There)

Thanks again, Have a great day

Name: Ron Beringer
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Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Selma, California USA
Time: Wednesday, December 2, 1998 at 02:39:10
Comments:

Your site is great!  I had to write to tell you what a grand job you did on your web site. The history, the picture and the music (especially the Enya MIDIs) are so nicely done.  I will visit each link on your page. I have toured Ireland twice, and I will return again someday.  Seeing your pictures and reading your stories brought back fond memories and made me homesick for Ireland. It was like being back there again.

Name: Sean Patrick Craven
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Referred by: Another Site Link
From:  Boston, MA USA
Time: Wednesday, December 2, 1998 at 13:30:29
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Love your page!  I haven't begun to peruse it but from the bits I've seen so far, I can tell it will be a great resource!  I'll email you when I'm done.

Name: Roger Hernon
Website: Irish Heritage Society 
Referred by: Another Site Link
From: Warren, Ohio USA
Time: Sunday, December 6, 1998 at 13:57:39
Comments:

Your site was exceptionally interesting. Great intro to treasures of the West.

Name: Jim Daley
Website:
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From:
Time: Sunday, December 6th. at 23:09
Comments: Hello:

I enjoyed your website very much.  My daughter, Maureen, visited Ireland last month for the first time on a mission to find relatives in Westmeath.  She did find some, but found many more pubs in Galway and Dublin! She loved Ireland and wants to move there and become a web designer - watch our for competition.  The rents in Dublin, however, are a real deterent and I don't think you have to worry..

Our genealogical mission (which Maureen and I just began) is to find out if the following is a relative: From  Burke's   "The Vicissitudes of Familes" about the last kings of Meath. This castle was most probably that of Killeliegh, now Castle Daly, which had belonged to the O'Melaghlins; and as the husband was said to have been a 'big trooper in Cromwell's army, but a gentleman,' he was probably the James Daly of Killcleagh who, according to an inscription on a tombstone at Clonmacnoise, 'dyed the 18th of January, A.D. 1679. I'm not thrilled about the reference to Cromwell, but at least my namesake was a "gentleman!"

All the best, Jim

Name: Archie
Website:
Referred by: From ICQ
From: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Time: Monday, December 7, 1998 at 20:05:38
Comments:

Hello Mary I haven't seen all your page as yet but will I will be looking forward to seing the rest off it. For sure you have done a fantastic job on it, ok bye for now.

Name: Gerald Blondin
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Bay City, MI, US
Time: Tuesday, December 8, 1998 at 15:43:06
Comments:

Strangely enough, my wife and I have visited Western Ireland and fell in love with the land and the ocean, but mostly the people. Could Athenry be your "home"? If so, say hello to the 'crowd' at Thompson's Pub, especially Maudie. And, I can't believe that you also visit Gray & Bruce County in Canada. Kincardine is our favorite town there and you must stop in to the "Harp & Whistle" Pub and buy Catherine a rye and soda! Thanks for the memories!

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