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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 Monis
From: Mississauga, Ontario
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Time: Thursday, January 13, 19100 at 20:55:08
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You have a wonderful site.  I especially like the sections on St. Anne de Beaupré & Cap de Madeleine.  I was there July 1999 & would like to return this year; it was truly moving.
Keep well!!

Name: Kathy Quasey
From: Chicago
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Hello - I just visited your site - very nice!!!  I work with An Gorta Mor in Chicago and I was wondering if you could direct me to more information regarding the names of the companies who owned the slave ships and transferred to emmigrant shipping. It would be very helpful.  Thank so much.
Kathy Quasey

Name: John McColl
From: Croy,Scotland
Website: The McColl Family 
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Fri 1/21/00 16:16
Comments:

Awsome really brilliant what a fantastic piece of work! and there are still more pages to follow I can't wait.

Name: Lisa Ann
From: PA, USA
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Website: Online With The Deeters 
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Greetings from the states.  What a wonderful site, enjoyed my visit here, especially the Medjurgorje page and the Celtic Reflections. Someday I hope to visit your homeland, first I need to overcome the fear of getting in an airplane.  I always joke with my husband that I will go back to the lands of my heritage the way my ancestors got here, by boat!
God Bless you!  Hugs from your LOTH sister in the USA.  ~  Lisa Ann, The Reb Angel

Name: ROSEMARY VANDENBURG
From:
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Time: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 0:40
Comments:

Hi,
I came across your web pages while trying to research my family.  All 8 of my great grandparents came from Ireland and I only recently found a place of birth of any of them. Patrick Barrett came from County Mayo, married in St Sylvestre, Quebec in 1850 and later immigrated to the US- Vermont. I was actually looking for John D Curry who was born 22 Jun 1833 in Co Sligo, immigrated 1852 to Vermont, US. I couldn't find any records for him on how he came here- Boston, New York, etc.  I never
thought of him coming thru Canada. I have never been to Grosse Ille but maybe now I will go - its only about a 5 hour drive. I went to Ireland about 10 yrs ago but it was a tour, I hope to go back and just wander. I really enjoyed your site. It has a wealth of information and is very well put together. Thank you for putting me on another track to tracing family.
Sincerely,
Rosemary Barrett Vandenburg

Name: Carol Nielsen
From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Website:
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Time: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 1:31
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I really enjoyed your site on Sligo. I had the opportunity to visit family there in 1996. What a thrill that was. The moment I saw them I felt the connection with them. I surely plan to return someday. Ireland is a beautiful place. My picture of Heaven.

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Name: Rosemary
From: Wales
Website: Parddu's Pages 
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Time: Thursday, February 03, 2000 21:18
Comments:

What an interesting site you have here! It needs several visits ot appreciate it properly but I did enjoy browsing round and going on parts of your journeys. Best wishes from a LOTH sister

Name: Dale Easky
From: St. Clair, Missouri   U.S.A.
Website:
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Time: Sunday, February 06, 2000 3:50
Comments:

You have a great site

Name: D. Picquet
From: Roswell, GA  USA
Website:
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Time: Friday, February 11, 2000 18:24
Comments:

A wonderful journey! I am looking forward to taking it myself next year. Your country is so beautiful, unspoiled,and makes one feel so close to ones creator. God Bless!

Name: Bob Bunt-Burke
From: Western Massachusetts, USA
Website:
Referred by: Email contact
Time: Sunday, February 13, 2000 16:27
Comments:

I received your reply to my earlier E-Mail and went to your site..what a treasure you left there to find..Many the places I have been..experienced..carried back a place in my Heart..I stayed at Rosses Point, Sligo and walked in the fields with my son. It is a grand site and I shall come back often..you have done one of the finest sites I have seen so far.

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