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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: Barbara Lardner
From: Rhode Island
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Time: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 2:08
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 It is nice to see  website about Lackagh Parish. My grandfather and grandmother came to US from Lackaghbeg in the early 1900's.  It's nice to see my last name in the census, nobody ever believes my name is Irish! 

Name: Carla
From: Utica, NY USA
Website: Carla's Home
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Time: Thursday, March 16, 2000 18:51
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You whole site is incredible!! I will be back again..I love all this Irish stuff!! Thanks for sharing with us... Carla

Name: Willard Naulin  Hooks
From: Castleberry, Alabama  - USA
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Time: Friday, March 17, 2000 2:43
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That  was  the  best  poem  i  ever read totally true though.

Name: Denise Betoski
From: Irmo, South Carolina, USA
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Time: Monday, March 20, 2000 15:02
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Hello, I have enjoyed your website on travels to St. Anne's.  My family is planning a pilgrimage to St. Anne de Beaupre from the United States in July 2000.  Do you know if St. Anne's has an official website?  I am trying to find out more information on   hours of operation, daily Mass schedule, etc. Thank you for your time,

Name: John McColl
From: Croy, Scotland.
Website: The McColl Family
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Time: Friday, March 24, 2000 8:10
Comments:

Fantastic piece of work, well done!

Name: Mary Robinson
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Time: Friday, March 24, 2000 9:50
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Daily Lenten Reflections. Your site is beautiful!!----I am sharing it with others---Thank You for lifting others up and inspiring them, it gives anyone who reads it a better insight all about Jesus Christ our Lord and God our Savior. Thanks Mary

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Time: Monday, March 27, 2000 19:53
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Just a Thank to You for this site (reflections for Lent).  It so nice that if you want to get away from the every day things on the Internet and just sit and listen and read the reflections is so nice. Thank You

Name: Theresa Farrelly
From: Deer Park.Long Island
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Time: Monday, March 27, 2000 23:03
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I was so happy to find your site - it is beautiful and so peaceful - I love Lent 2000 and the journey around Galway, where my parents are from. I read the Galway Gazette every week - very interesting. Please keep up the great work you are doing.

I am a late comer to "Reflections for Lent"  I enjoyed todays short prayer so much I printed it up so I can memorize it to add to my daily prayers . I intend to find time and go back to Ash Wednesday, I'm sure I will profit from it.I am so happy to have found Catholic Canada. 
 

Name: Nancy S. Hartigan
From: Big Flats, New York USA
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Time: Friday, March 31, 2000 1:09
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I enjoyed browsing through this information. I recently began receiving the Galway Gazette. Thank you Mary. My family Callahans, Smith, McAuley, Stuart and my late husband's family, Patrick Hartigan from Liscannor, Co. Clare got me interested in Western Ireland. I hope to someday be able to visit with two of my ten children. Keep up the good work Mary I love your articles.  Nancy

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