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: Christian Abplanalp-McDermott
Website: werbegraphic.ch
Referred by: From MoyTura's Business Card
From: Zurich, Switzerland
Time: Tuesday, December 8, 1998 at 19:36:38
Comments:

What a fantastic page. So much information not only from one's home country, but from one's own home village - Lackagh. I live very near the Lackage Museum. I am now living in Zurich, Switzerland and sometimes think of the home place - but with this wonderful page, now I have my home near me once again. Fantastic work.

Christian Abplanalp-McDermott

Name: Stuart Forbes
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Cambridge, UK
Time: Thursday, December 10, 1998 at 17:34:47
Comments:

Yep it is a lovely page and the music is great too, thanks for sharing it with the world. From your friendly Pastry Chef, Stu

Name: Paul J. Hanley
Website: ***For the Irish in All of Us***
Referred by:
From: San Francisco.US
Time: Friday December 11th. 1998 at 20:27
Comments:

Enjoyed the visit to your web site.  The west  of the island looks great. Any suggestion as to where I should start looking for a house?  Estate Agents, areas? and so forth? I'd like to keep in touch.  I'm a secondary school teacher in San Francisco.
Cheers, paul j. hanley

Name: Melissa Conley
Website:
Referred by:
From: Bradenton, Florida, US
Time: Sunday December 13th, 1998 at 13:50
Comments:

You have done a superb job with the layout, the graphics, and the music!!  Thank you for the wonderful "surf!"

My name is Melissa Conley and I am currently living in Bradenton, Florida after being raised in the state of West Virginia where my (paternal) Great Grandfather settled after leaving Galway, Ireland in the mid 1800's.  He settled there on a 900 acre farm, living off the land in poverty until gas and
oil wells were discovered.  Needless to say it's a rags to riches story yet all the while the family has maintained the Irish humbleness rather than making a status in the American society.  My (paternal) grandmothers family came from Galway as well, she is from the Keffer (or Keiffer) clan, but I do
not know the extent of her family history as I do the Conley, which was O'Connlley, then shortened to O'Conley and finally to Conley.

Thank you for sharing your web site....along with your talent, your knowledge, and your compassion with me, the world, and everyone else out there that discovers it.  I only hope to someday travel to Galway to learn more of my heritage, family history, and to visit the birthplace of my ancestors. Keep up the good work!!

Melissa Conley
[email protected]

Name: Patrick O'Connell
Website: PAT logic
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Montana,  USA
Time: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 at 16:00:21
Comments:

You went to Canada but you didn't come down to the states?  Next time you're in the Canada area you should come on down to Montana.  I guarantee you'll like it.  How close are you to County Kerry (spelling may be bad)?  That's where I have family.  Oh, by the way, nice page.  I liked it.

Name: Ray Kenney
Website:
Referred by: Just CruisedOn In
From: Hoboken NJ USA & Gort Galway
Time: Thursday, December 17, 1998 at 15:34:59
Comments:

I'll be back in Galway the second week in January, its been 5 1/2 months since the last trip and your pages warmed the heart, re-awakened good memories and made the heart ache a little bit. Thanks for the "visit" and keep up the good work. I'll revisit often.

Name: John Earls
Website:
Referred by:
From: Brisbane, Australia
Time: Saturday December 19th. at 08:31
Comments:

Hi I thought your site was lovely - especially the bit about yourself.  I really liked all the views of many places i visited often in years gone by.  Me, I live on the sunshine coast north of brisbane in OZ (of course at least 35 percent of the population have an Irish background.  I've been in OZ 25 years but I was born in Belfast in 1934, my granfather comes from Ballineen in west cork, my mother was born in Dublin and my father comes from Islandmagee in Co Antrim. As a man from Clare once said to me in CIE, you appear to be the worst possible combination. Have a really good xmas and keep adding to your page

john earls

Name: Bob Blough
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: League City, Texas
Time: Monday, December 21, 1998 at 05:35:35
Comments:

Very interesting and informative web site hope to see more soon, Come visit Texas when you get a chance.

Name: Zeno O. Winkens
Website: Winkens Architecture & Planning 
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Co. Wexford
Time: Tuesday, December 22, 1998 at 03:41:52
Comments:

 I got here by tinent.ie... Lovely site. I'll be back, there is just too much to see first time. Merry Christmas!

Name: Neville
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Durban, South Africa
Time:Tuesday, December 22, 1998 at 04:11:46
Comments:

 Just great Mary, I have always wanted to visit Ireland and maybe someday I will get the chance to. Your pictures and words are beautiful and I feel like I have already been there. Thanks for the tour.   Merry Christmas to you all. Neville

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