Moytura's Irish
Bookshop

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: Juan Carlos Gunning
Website: http://www.sanatoriomodelo.com.ar
Referred by: Simplemente Navegó Sobre En
From: Urquiza 4750-CASEROS-C.P.1678,PCIA.BS.AS. ARGENTINA
Time: Tuesday, September 8, 1998 at 23:06:40
Comments:

Estoy muy agradecido por mostrar al mundo la pagina de mis ancestros.
Muchas felicidades.Johnny (I am very happy to have been able to see the land of my ancestors on your page. Thank you and greetings from Johnny)

Name: Kevin Severson
Website:
Referred by:
From: USA
Time: Wednesday, September 9, 1998, at 0:56
Comments:

Hello, I'm an american, of norse and scottish ancestry, who stumbled upon your web page and fell in love with the background midi file....could you send it to me? and what is the name of the tune....  I work for gateway, and our company has a plant in ireland....

thanks so much, Kevin Severson

Name: Tony Morgan
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Cambridge UK
Time: Thursday, September 10, 1998 at 10:12:33
Comments:

I was interested in your comments on the Doolough tragedy.

Name: Leland Mullins
Homepage: Mr. Toad's Pad 
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Kent, Washington USA
Time: Friday, September 11, 1998 at 01:13:24
Comments:

found your page searching under mullins on hotbot. nice page :)

Name: Jennifer
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Bowling Green, Ky.  USA
Time: Friday, September 11, 1998 at 21:51:30
Comments:

I enjoy anything about you beautiful country and hope to visit someday.

Name:  John Reid
Website:
Referred by: Just CruisedOn In
From: Tubbercurry  (now Michigan)
Time: Saturday, September 12, 1998 at 11:42:56
Comments:

Your homepage looks really great.  It looks very classy and really shows the world how beautiful Sligo is.

Name: Jim Cole
Website:
Referred by: Just CruisedOn In
From:  Tunaphubble Co. Sligo
Time: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 at 17:30:01
Comments:

Beautiful site!  I've marked as fav and will be back!  Thanks, Take care.

Name: Cecilia Fonseca
Website:
Referred by: SimplementeNavegó Sobre En
From: Brazil (ciudad: Brasilia)
Time: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 at 23:42:59
Comments:

Estaba buscando algo sobre los celtas y he encontrado su página. Quiero aclarar que en Brasil hablamos portugués y no español. Pero soy porfesora de español y por eso le escribo en esa lengua. Me encanta Irlanda, ya estuve ahí 2 veces y en una de ellas fui a Galway y a la principal Aran Island. Ha hecho usted su página sola? Sería bueno buscar auxilio para el español, a veces no se consigue entenderlo bien. Reciba esta observación no como una mala crítica, sino como una sugerencia para mejorar su página. Si quiere algún auxilio para el portugués, puede enviarme un e-mail. Me encanta el pueblo irlandés y me encantaría poder volver a esa isla maravillosa. Si vuelvo, seguramente intentaré encontrarla a usted. Un saludo desde mi país tropical. Cecilia.

(Was seeking something on the Celts and I found your page. I want to clarify that in Brazil we speak Portuguese and not Spanish. But I am a professor of Spanish and therefore I write to you in that language. Ireland enchants me and already I have been twice, once to Galway and to the islands.Did you do your homepage translation on your own? It would be good to get help with the Spanish as it sometimes does not translate very well.  Please accept this as an observation and not a criticism, rather a sugestion for improving your page.  If you want some assistance for the Portuguese, please
e-mail me. I am enchanted by the Irish people and to me it would be lovely to be able to return to that wonderful island. If I return, certainly I will attempt to make contact with you. A greeting from my tropical country. Cecilia.)

Name: James Morrison
Homepage Title: The Astrolabe 
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: New Fairfield, CT USA
Time: Friday, September 18, 1998 at 23:51:44
Comments:

I returned from Ireland yesterday where I found the site of an ancestor's farm just a mile or so south of Clonmacnoise and I was looking for references to it when I found your pages.  Your site is beautifully executed and you must feel a great amount of pride in it.  It is quite lovely and the music is just grand.  Thanks.

Name: Louisa
Homepage Title: Louisa's Magical Romance Reading Website 
Referred by:
Hear?:
From: Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Time: Saturday, September 19, 1998 at 10:09:23
Comments:

I am one of your LOTH sisters and thought I would sign in while I am visiting round some of my sister's sites. I'll have to come back and have a really good look through your pages - you have so much information here. Love the idea of more than one language for your site. I only speak English but I am sure that many others will appreciate your efforts.

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