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| 1975 - Sheila and
me with Grammy (r) at Uncle Johnny's stables outside of Dublin. (I was 11 and Sheila was
9) |
Another shot,
with Uncle Johnny on the left |
We picniced near
a canal, where this horse and donkey were grazing |
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| Me and Sheila at
St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. What a couple of ragamuffins! |
My God, would you
look at that suit! I think the Bay City Rollers were big fave of mine at the
time. |
1991, my second
visit. A street in Shannon, I believe. I was on a bus from Shannon to Limerick
after just arriving |
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| My Auntie
Carmel's house, Dublin. She had a beautiful front and back garden. |
Auntie Carmel's
back garden |
Grandpa Mike's
headstone. I had never seen it before, since he was buried in Ireland in 1968. |
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| The view from the
front of our B&B (Ard Einne) on Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands |
Looking out the
window of my room at Ard Einne. |
Ard Einne from
the road. |
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| Cow among the
ruins. |
Wildflowers.
Which is amazing considering the island was entirely made of stone when the first settlers
arrived. They built fields from nothing by chipping away at the stone to make it
jagged and then dragging seaweed from the sea to drape over the rocks. The seaweed
eventually degraded to compost and soil. |
The Tigh Fitz,
local pub. |
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island is only 9 miles long, horse and buggy is still a reasonable form of
transportation. |
While walking
along a semi-wooded path, I looked through the bushes to my left and saw this. |
Dun Aengus, an
ancient fort. |
