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: Marie Boylan
From: Petaluma, California
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Time: Monday, May 15, 2000 21:23
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I thoroughly enjoy your Galway Gazette (I subscribe) and I love your website and I did like reading about your family and yourself.  Guess What, I'm another Irish-American (been to England but not Ireland yet) who is "yearning" to get there in Y2K..I would love to live there for short periods and learn Irish Dancing (I'm a former dancer/teacher/choreographer) and bring back to teach maybe and I love languages in general and am having a obstacle studded time of it trying to get time to study my Gaelic from books/tapes some I got in England.  I have a son, Sean, daughter-in-law (like dau.), Leona and two granddaughters Seana Marie Boylan (14) and Jessica Jean Boylan (7).

Anything you have time to tell me about or direct me to, I would appreciate.  Depending on fares & lodging, I am considering August-October possible visit time to Ireland and England (have friends there), etc.  And, if possible, I would love to meet you for sure.

I'm semi-retired from US Gov, work part-time as a Legal Asst and work about once a week for an "Irish" Englishwoman who lives next door as a "Nippy" in Maria of London Tea Room.  We dress in Victorian black & white and give talks during tea.  I do the Irish and have a collection of about 50 books. 

I love you people, no doubt about it!! Slainte, Marie Boylan

Name: Daniela
From: Italy
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Time: Saturday, May 20, 2000 8:10
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 I really like this site, it's pleasant, mellow, cheerful (I loved the story of your big family!!) ... Good luck for your design business!
I'm a graduate of 27 and soon moving to Galway. I surfed in while looking for courses at UCG...thanks, really, it's such a nice example of creativity and also of a woman's enterprise.
Good luck to you + family, Daniela

Name: Brian
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Time: Monday, May 22, 2000 1:37
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Hi!

What a wonderful site - I thoroughly enjoyed my visit. I have placed a link to you on my poetry website at  http://mourne.net on my 'Irish Links' page. Best regards, Brian

Name: Gabbi Vincent
From: Tasmania
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Time: Thursday, June 08, 2000 3:10
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Thank you so much for your wonderful pages. I doubt I'll ever get to Ireland, so hearing your newsy bits and pieces sort of helps. I live in Tasmania, an island state off the southern coast of Australia. 

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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