Ireland Road Ways Two on the Loose Dan with down travels anywhere.

Dunluce Castle, and town. Archeology in Antrim.

The life of common people of the 17th Century preserved.

The ruin of the basalt cliffside Castle Dunluce, dating from the 13th Century, is no longer alone. With its tale of the later kitchens shearing off and falling into the sea along with 7 cooks (a cobbler escaped), the site is compelling: a must-see for car-wanderers. Now there is another reason to explore: a 17th Century town, there at Dunluce, ruins below ground, previously unexplored. See http://www.archaeology.org/issues/206-1603.

Dunluce Timeline:

13th Century -- a rural manor was here

15th Century -- fireplace and doorway, part of first fortifications, found.

Dec

HISTORY. Ireland - Celtic History. Even Scythian. And More Ancient, Perhaps. A Manageable Timeline, Ireland

Celtic and more Ancient History

A Manageable Timeline, Ireland

Irish History Pre-History

Focus: Pre-christian, and some early Christian, later, for context

Update 12/2015. An affirmation of migration concept to Ireland, here Rathlin Island. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/12/29/ancient-irish-genome-reveals-a-massive-migration-from-the-east/.

Nov

Tyrone. Strabane. Territory and history.

Territory and history. With names unfamiliar, look at a map. Strabane, in County Tyrone, abuts Donegal, the County Donegal with lands that extend lands farther north than Northern Ireland. The area is at the heart of struggles between Anglo-Norman invaders, then settling in; and indigenous Irish, losing their lands.

Feb

HISTORY. Limerick. ADARE. Ruins and Headstones. Ecclesiastical History. Tree 10; Gravestone 2.

Ruins and Headstones: Ecclesiastical History

With an update 2014

Theology vs. reality. Reality wins.

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Daniel Widing at graveyard, Adare, Ireland. Where the tree wins. Franciscan Friary, ruin in middle of golf course.

Adare, Limerick

Monastic Traditions, Before and After Augustinian Reforms

Irish History Timeline focusing on Post-1150 ACE

For earlier era Timeline Pre-1150, see From Book of Kells to Synod of Kells.

Feb

HISTORY. From Book of Kells, to Synod of Kells: The Romanization of the Irish Church

The Book of Kells

The Great Gospel of Columcille -- The Dove of the Church

Irish History Timeline focusing pre-1150 ACE

(Before the Norman Invasion)

Leading to discussion of post 1150 - What the Normans and Other Wrought

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How was the imagination, the verve and humor of the early Irish Celtic Church,

drummed out

by rigid rules, power-seeking, and institutional machinations of Rome's Branch.

Follow a chronology here.

Feb

HISTORY. Saga. Normans, Strongbow, and Norse Migrations.

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Pick a Place.

Ireland. Looking for Old Norse

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Viking Invasions 700's on

Norman Invasion.

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A. The Norse (Vikings)

Vikings raided, invaded and captured Irish for slaves; and raided monasteries. Note that this was not a first occurrence of attacks by somebody against the monasteries: many of the early Christian monasteries also raided each other, and Irish people themselves also raided the monasteries.

Feb

HISTORY. Tralee, Queen Scotia and Slieve Mish, Scota. Mountain Grave. An Irish Big Dig

THE IRISH BIG DIG

for Scota.

Queen Scotia

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The Big Web Dig for Irish Pre-History Tribal Origins

Scota, Scotia, as ancestor of the Milesians, see http://homepage.eircom.net/~kthomas/history/History3.htm

This is our Web Dig, to find the origins and attributes of Queen Scotia, Scota, Sgota. There is a grave with that identification-indications of name, as she was buried in antiquity and with Egyptian hieroglyphs, they say, as befits the Pharaoh's daughter that she (some say) was.

Jan

Cork, Skibbereen: Famine, depopulation, immigration

1840's Irish Famine.

Death by Greed. A kind of genocide for its day.

An avoidable tragedy; food was there; just shipped out for profit and to get rid of rabble

By way of update, the myth that the deaths were caused by the potato blight, the "gorta mor" or great hunger resulting, continues. See Archeology Magazine, American Institute of Archeology, Jan-Feb 2013 at http://www.archaeology.org/issues/.

Jul

Dublin. James Joyce: Ulysses Reviews. 1922

Young People Abroad.

Follow the Personage Theme.

Find James Joyce.

James Joyce may seem an odd interest for travel, but he recurs. He appears in memorials not only in Ireland and Paris by reference, but in Pula, Croatia, where he lived and taught. Ulysses. For me, that was a semester course in college, and now enjoyed anew with a Down Syndrome son. He delights in knowledge, and an elocution aloud of passages that sometimes become clear by the sound of the words.

Jul

Limerick. Limerick City. Hanratty's Hotel and Che Guevara, Guest

Limerick; Che Guevara

Dowd update

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Limerick - with Shannon airport nearby - dates from the old hunter-gatherers 3000 years ago, and began as a town under the Vikings. See http://www.answers.com/topic/history-of-limerick/

It gets foggy; as Che Guevara learned when his plane, refueling, was grounded at Shannon Airport in the 1960's nearby.

Where Guevara stayed. See Maureen Dowd on the topic at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/04/opinion/gaelic-guerrilla.html?_r=1&ref=opinion.