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: Cheryl Charlene Kay Morris
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Time: Friday, April 21, 2000 2:00
Comments: Reflections for Lent

I very much enjoyed your Easter page.  Thank you and have a blessed Easter!

Name: Boots LeRoux(Audrey)
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Time: Friday, April 21, 2000 5:10
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After returning from church tonite and going to this page was really a treat. Thank you. Boots

Name: Linda Jewett
From: Buffalo, New York USA
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Time: Friday, April 21, 2000 7:13
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I especially enjoyed the journey through Connemara -- my favorite part of Ireland!

Name: Doris
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Time: Saturday, April 22, 2000 12:04
Comments:   Reflections for Lent

Thank you for the Spiritual beauty I feel in my soul from your web  page. God Bless you 

Name: Almarie Guerra
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Time: Saturday, April 22, 2000 17:08
Comments:   Reflections for Lent

I would like to know something... When  does Lent end? Is it on Easter Sunday?  I would appreciate your answer.  By the way, your website is very nice, I enjoyed the music.  Thank you very much,
Almarie Guerra

Name: H B Jackson
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Time: Sunday, April 23, 2000 14:10
Comments:   Reflections for Lent

I thank you so much for your Lent devotions. I have told my friends and they are also enjoying Lent Season with you. You have blessed my soul.  God has spoken and is still speaking to me in 
your excellent collection. Thank you for taking the time to assemble this for us. I have prayed for a 
good Lent Devotional  but little did I know it would be on the internet. God bless you

Name: Geraldine Blum
From: Philadelphia, Pa.
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Time: Sunday, April 23, 2000 21:41
Comments: Reflections for Lent

 It is Easter Day and I found this page by browing. Wound up spending more than an hour reading and printing some beautiful thoughts, inspirations and poems during this peaceful time.  The music was uplifting and the entire experience touched me deeply.  I forwarded some of these to other friends and hope to visit here time and again.  Thank you making my Easter a very special one.  Geraldine

Name: David Hughes
From: Sulphur, LA
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Time: Monday, April 24, 2000 17:26
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 Great!

Name: Fouche'
From: Charleston South Carolina
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Time: Thursday, April 27, 2000 23:36
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Name: Lauren Bertoglio
From: Laguna Hills, California
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Time: Thursday, May 25, 2000 6:51
Comments: Reflections for Lent

I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your webpage.  I've been looking for a recitation for my 6th Grade graduating class.  My favorites are the What If page (great music, too!) and the Celtic Blessing. Thank you for offering such a wonderful collection to the Believers!  Kind regards, Lauren

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