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Posted on April 11, 2019

Signs, street scenes and shop fronts: Carrick-On-Suir

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Posted on April 4, 2019April 17, 2019

Glen Falls – a poem by Ciaran MacCormaic, Glencomeragh, Co. Waterford

A while back I posted “Be Still”, a poem by Agnes Hunt RHSM which is displayed on a board at the Holy Family Retreat Centre in Glencomeragh, Co Waterford. There…

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Posted on January 20, 2019

“Cloth of Gold” vestments, Medieval Museum Waterford

Over 550 years old, the survival of these vestments (which were concealed to save them from Oliver Cromwell, and were missing for over 120 years) is amazing in itself – what…

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Posted on December 18, 2018December 18, 2018

New Geneva, a (failed) Genevan colony in Waterford, designed by James Gandon

Recently I came across the placename Geneva Barracks, near Passage East in Waterford. Obviously a slightly unusual name, I wondered was it an Anglicisation of something – but in fact…

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Posted on December 3, 2018December 3, 2018

The Horgan Brothers’ film record of pilgrimage to St Declan’s Holy Well, Ardmore, 1910 — via Pilgrimage In Medieval Ireland

Via the everfascinating Pilgrimage in Medical Ireland blog here is a post on pilgrimage to St Declan’s Holy Well, Ardmore, Waterford featuring footage from 1910 The footage is from the…

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Posted on October 24, 2018October 24, 2018

Long Way Round Fundraising 15 k Night Walk/Run for South East Mountain Rescue, 24th November

Head torches at the ready, this sounds like a blast .. and for a worthy cause: Long Way Round Our fundraising 15 Km night walk /run for SEMRA takes place…

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Posted on September 29, 2018September 22, 2018

Extinct in Ireland, September 29th, the Lynx

So far in my Extinct in Ireland blog series I have generally avoided the extinctions of prehistory. Of course prehistory does not mean pre-human. From Whittled Away there is a…

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Posted on September 27, 2018September 27, 2018

Blue Anchor Lane, Clonmel

Blue Anchor Lane is an evocative name. It is a lane between O’Connell Street (the Clonmel version) and the New Quay: It is rather unglamorous: Another angle does not reveal…

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