... group. She lived in a cleit, a primitive hut made from dry stone walls with stone roof slabs capped with turf. Lady Grange was thought to have been moved ...
Douglas MacQueen - May 11 2016 - 9:10pm - 0 comments
... around the coasts of Brittany, Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. On some of these islands relative isolation over many centuries ... breed which is a group of sheep breeds from Scandinavia, Ireland and British Isles. Thought to be the first sheep brought to Europe in ...
Douglas MacQueen - May 18 2014 - 6:39pm - 0 comments
... to be a predictor of the future and to have used an Adder stone, a stone with a hole in the middle, to see his visions of the future. He is said ...
Douglas MacQueen - May 10 2018 - 12:15pm
... The Screaming Orphans, the four Diver sisters who hail from Ireland’s County Donegal, have been performing together since the early ... return to the States on May 26, 2016 to perform at the “Ireland 100: Celebrating a Century of Irish Arts and Culture”, a major ...
Emmett McIntyre - Jul 1 2016 - 2:58am - 0 comments
... the glen on the left side of the river there is a wishing stone where you place your hands on the stone and make a wish. Always finish your wish with a thank you to the glen ...
Alastair Kneale - Sep 9 2015 - 2:36pm
... Language affairs. The new Taoiseach (Prime Minister of Ireland), Leo Varadkar, who was born in Dublin to a mother from Waterford and a ... community organisation that promotes the Irish language in Ireland and abroad. The League’s primary objective is the reinstatement of ...
Emmett McIntyre - Jun 18 2017 - 9:13pm
... The campaign's success has now secured shipment of the stone for cutting before transfer to Manx Memorials for specific work on the ... which will be used to provide an appropriate memorial stone as a fitting conclusion of his life. The trustees will need to raise ...
Valerie Caine - Feb 21 2017 - 11:21am
... horse can be seen in the background. The other side of the stone depicts a subsequent part of the tale. It shows the figure of Gunnar, who ... Celtic people with supernatural abilities. They arrived in Ireland from four cities 'in the far north' (thought to be Norway) where they ...
Alastair Kneale - Jan 1 2016 - 6:09pm
... people of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the gods of pre-Christian Ireland. This story tells of howOisin, when hunting with the others ... avoid this he angled himself in his saddle to help move the stone without touching the ground. Unfortunately the saddle strap broke and ...
Alastair Kneale - Aug 26 2022 - 1:17pm
... of Malahide (Irish: Mullach Íde) in Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland (Irish: Fine Gall, Contae Bhaile Átha Cliath, Éire). Some of the ... property to someone else after the Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland. After the Cromwell's welcome death, the property was restored to the ...
Anonymous (not verified) - May 8 2021 - 3:01pm