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: Kyra Stevens
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Time: Friday, March 31, 2000 17:45
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What a wonderful and beautiful site!  You don't know how much it touched my heart.  Thank you.  God bless you. (Reflections for Lent)

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

Name: Pete Rainey
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Time: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 15:39
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Mary
Family and friends are going to Quebec in May and to Ireland next spring, so I have read your wonderful web site. If you have the time, can you recommend a restaurant in old Quebec?

Name: M. Barry Roderick
From: Saint John, NB Canada
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Time: April 8th. 2000 13:36
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What a wonderful site, I learned of it this morning from a another site [email protected] and their weekly posting. Where are you located?   "Reflections for Lent"

April 10th: Awaken early morning. Visit today's thoughts before returning to bed. Your site continues to be of interest. Saint John, NB

Name: Suzanne Baudouin 
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Time: April 10th. 2000 02:37
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I very much enjoyed Lenten reflections  for March 18th taken from Hours with Jesus by Rev. P. O'Meara. S.J.  "Take O Lord and receive my whole liberty, My MEMORY ,my understanding , my will."  At the age of 73, I have definitely signs of memory loss and am petrified of that dreaded
disease, Alzheimer. Two of my friends are suffering from it. I intend to say this prayer daily so that If it it is God's will I will age gracefully and if not that I accept His will. "Reflections for Lent"

Name: Paul Geary
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Time: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 3:52
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Reflections for Lent

I found your website this evening, here in my home on Cape Cod, Mass USA. I can only say "thank you" . I have enjoyed it and shall save it to enjoy in the future. I shall pass it on to others. Slan go foill

Name: Tony Mc Hale
From: Newport
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Time: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 16:47
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This is an excellent website and i really like the videos

Name: Linda McCready
From: Ocean City Maryland USA
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Time: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 20:45
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Name: C&C Bowman
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Time: Thursday, April 13, 2000 16:55
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This is a Beautiful web site. I appreciate finding it on the internet. I will e-mail your site to my family and friends and Parish Priest. This is one site I have enjoyed very much.  Thank you again.  Carmen

Name: Lyle Fedosa
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Time: Thursday, April 13, 2000 19:39
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THANKYOU SO MUCH A BEAUTIFUL SITE AND A WONDERFUL WAY TO START A DAY
DIANNE FEDOSA 

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