Moytura's Irish
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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 site 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: AnneMarie Spizuoco
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From: San Francisco
Time: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 17:35
Comments:

Hello, I just wanted to drop a line to let you know I really enjoy your website.. It's wonderful to see the west of Ireland and I feel like I really travelled up the coast! I live in San Francisco which has a beautiful landscape but it could never compare to the beauty of Ireland! Hopefully I will make the journey in the near future. I also like the history you have included and have actually written a song about Grace O'Malley recently. Anyway thanks again, AnneMarie

Name: Caroline Mc Donagh
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Referred by:  Just cruised on in.
From: Lackagh, County Galway
Time: Thursday, January 28, 1999 19:28
Comments:
Hi!
I thought that I might drop a line to let you know that I have just found you site and that I happen to be from Lackagh.   Nice piece of work.  My best friend is Chairperson of the museum so I will be giving her this address. I am presently studying Information Technology with a view to web design. Please drop me a line.
Regards
Caroline Mc Donagh

Name: Suzanne R. Vick
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Referred by: From Search Engine
From: Springfield, Florida, USA
Time: Friday, January 29, 1999 7:41
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I went to this site because my friend is in Galway.  He works on computers, too, but in a slightly different capacity. I love it and think it is one of the best I have seen anywhere, and I have not even finished reading all I want to.  I must wait until tomorrow to finish, I fear, because a little one has fallen asleep almost underneath me and must be put to bed now, and I should also be abed. Thank you for these wonderful and interesting pages.

Suzanne

Name: K. Nicole Smith
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Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Auburn, Alabama USA
Time: Friday, January 29, 1999 21:43
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I must admit, I have really enjoyed your web page.  I recently graduated from college in anthropology and I thought to look on the inter-net to find useful information concerning graduate schools abroad and chanced across your website.  For the past ten years I have a fascination with all things Celtic and have gone so far as to make replicas of period dresses (900s BC until Irish Tudor). Currently I am helping a local museum restore several victorian dresses to their original splendor, and one day hope to end up doing graduate work in your lovely country.  Be well, and thank you for the informative Web site.  P.S.  If you hear of any fascinating graduate or doctoral programs local to you concerning anthropology or museum studies, please feel free to drop me a line on my e-mail address. (:

Name: Marly Vere
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From:  Mena, Arkansas, USA
Time: Friday, January 29, 1999 at 20:44:54
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Aye, this side of eden...

Name: Tom Brown
Website: Crock o' Gold
Referred by: From Search Engine
From: N. Ireland
Time: Saturday, January 30, 1999 16:08
Comments:

A beautiful site. Excellent content, visually pleasing, appropriate music and easy to navigate. Everything that a good web site should be. Congratulations!

Name: Lisi+Eva
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Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Vienna
Time: Saturday, January 30, 1999 17:34
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Very interesting, very exciting!

Name: Rebecca Ott
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Referred by: From PowWow
From: Ohio, USA
Time: Sunday, January 31, 1999 15:32
Comments:

You have some pretty country and music. Hope to visit there one day.

Name: Jacquline Mullins Sampson
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URL: httm://members.aol.com/jsamp80274/page1.htm
Referred by: From Search Engine
From: Hermitage, TN, USA
Time: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 20:34
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Was looking up all the Mullins I could find on line. Was under search engine mammamother of all searches  and at end of list found this site. Did not see Mullins name anywhere on it, but keep looking at all your page. It is a great page  so put it in fav places so can come back . Music put tears in my eyes.

Name: Anton  Vukas
Website: Not Finalized Yet. How much do you charge?
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Croatia and Canada
Time: Friday, February 5, 1999 at 01:24:07
Comments:

The site was recomended while chating with NightBird via ICQ February 4, 1999. I like your Video and Audio design. I have not been in Medjugorje yet. Was born Dalmatian, Croatia, and Canadian now, have been on other mountains of Dinaridi. View from those that include sea vistas made me feel as in heaven.

Your audio is so soothing. Irish heart is coming out through it. Croatians have very similar history. Maybe beauty of the place attracted so many that eventualy led to a conflict in the past. I really hope your and my people find peace and co-operation with the neighbours as both suffered enough. Europe Union should extend its invitation for joining the common market to both.

Good work and lots of luck in the future.

Anton T. Vukas

PS: Hope you will have an opportunity to take a swim in the warm beach ZLATNI RAT in Bol on Brac island near Split. One day trip with ferry from Split will make it memorable. Highly recommended.

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