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: Mary Stern
From: Seattle
Website:
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Time: Monday, November 08, 1999 1:05
Comments:

Hi, I'm Corie from Seattle, not of Irish blood, but rather Finnish and German.  I toured recently your beautiful city of Galway in Sept. and loved the Catholic Church there with the rather long name!  Hope, God willingly to explore more of Galway in particular and I must be Irish at least in spirit!  Very nice web page...I'm just a bit younger then you..."52 and I'm Catholic too...some of the music reminds me of Enya.  Best wishes to you and your family and many blessings! Corie Stern.

Name: Judy Dunn
From: Raleigh, NC  USA
Website:
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Time: Thursday, November 11, 1999 3:15
Comments:

Enjoyed your web site.  I look forward to seeing the real thing next week when I visit.  You've given my some background and things to enjoy that aren't in most travel books. Thanks.

Name Leo Kolbeinsson:
From: Hafnarfjordur, Iceland
Website:
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Time: Thursday, November 11, 1999 19:49
Comments:

Very good web-site..most interesting

Name: Frank Hamilton Early
From: South Africa
Website:
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Time: Sunday, November 14, 1999 14:14
Comments:

A very moving article on Grosse Ile. Thank you. I too have Irish ancestors buried in the soil of Quebec.

Name: Andrew Forde
From: Aberdeen Scotland
Website: Forde Homepage
URL: 
Referred by: From ICQ
Time: Sunday, November 14, 1999 23:02
Comments:

Hi Mary, Your Homepage just gets better and better. Shane King also sends his regards.

Regards, Andrew Forde

Name: Patricia Cooke DiNapoli
From: New Jersey--USA
E-mail:
Website:
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Time: Friday, November 19, 1999 19:56
Comments:

Both my parents were born in Sligo. The town of Aclare. My mother was a Calvey and my father a Cooke. My family and my sisters families are planning to visit Sligo next summer to get in touch with who we are. I enjoyed your web site very much and I am glad that I discovered it.

Name: Doug Mays
From: Stoney Creek Ontario Canada
Website:
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Time: Saturday, November 20, 1999 20:48
Comments:

I found your website quite by accident but what a wonderful inspiritational accident it was. You see my wife is Irish and her parents both passed away in the last year. Her father was from Longford and her mother from Waterford. As I write these comments to you I am listening to the Irish music on your website and I am thinking about how much we miss them. Thank you for this.

Name: Mark Patrick Kiely
From:
Website: IRELANDLINK TO IRELAND AND THE IRISH
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Time: Sunday, November 14, 1999 7:09
Comments:

We just wanted to let you know that we at IRELANDLINK TO IRELAND AND THE IRISH really enjoyed your site ....it's good to see another site out there promoting or featuring something to do with the auld sod for all the world to enjoy! We're showcasing links to 'quality' sites from www.irelandlink.to and its many topics, and we're interested in yours. www.irelandlink.too is full of original information, it's a guide to travel and activities in Ireland, also with a special feature on the arts in Ireland (books & music, theatre & film), and other interesting topics like history, mythology, language & people, food (pub grub), and gifts.

We've received an incredible amount of mailing from folks who love the amount of info and the great links that we feature.

We want to do a logo graphic link swap or reciprocal banner. Send us your html code for a link and a graphic (logo) that we can place on our site? e-mail it to us at [email protected] so that we can place it on our site.

Our html code is here: www.irelandlink.to/linkexchange.htm - There's code for a banner  here. Just Copy and paste the code into your source view. E-mail me if you have a question, otherwise let's link!

Thanks .......go raibh maith agaibh!

Mark Patrick Kiely
Director of Research & Marketing

Name: Tommy LeBeau
From: Mankato,MN
Website:
URL: http://www.idabiz.com/
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Sunday, November 21, 1999 20:12
Comments:

Mike Daly, P.S he's really polish

Name: James Kidd
From:
Country: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Website:
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Friday, November 26, 1999 at 08:15:45
Comments:

A lovely journey.

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