Dungarvan, a Special Place

Looking over where my grandmother was born. Mary Agnes loved Newport because it reminded her of home.

Dungarvan

Cemeteries and Coves

Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry

Sleah Head

Along the Coast of Kerry

Burrens in Clare

Desolate Clare

County Connemara's Mountains with Rainbow

Pretty cool.

Beach Achil Island

A day trip from Westport, Ireland, that is.

Newport, not Rhode Island

Hmmm

Knock Thursday

Our Lady appeared to 15 people here in August 1879.

Slieve League Cliffs

Wednesday. The highest cliffs in Europe.

Belfast, a Divided City

The "Troubles", if not over, are at least on hold, but there is constant reminder that while in Belfast you are in a divided city.  There is an actual wall. In the Catholic sections, street names are in English and Gaelic. I bet no one there knows Gaelic. But the conditions for the Irish Catholics were very descriminitory.

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Sailortown church in Belfast

Saint Joseph's Chapel, now shut and deteriorating, was very active during The Troubles in Belfast. 

The plaque memorializes 2 little girls killed byo a car bomb.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny%27s_Bar_bombing# 

Ann Gaynor's Home Town

Around 1850 my great grandmother Ann Gaynor and her husband came to America. They settled in Newport, Rhode Island.  Ann's birthplace, Annagassan, in County Meath reminds me a little bit Newport. It resembles more the other side like Galilee or over in Portsmouth and Tiverton. Annagassan is very small and rural. Newport has been a city since the 1700's.

The ocean seems to be more treachurous.

It is very religious here.

Airport Hotel in Dublin

At the Clayton Hotel in Dublin we were very amused by the view from our window on the 8th Floor.     Horses frolicking from morning to night along with planes coming in every 15 minutes. So after a huge tasty Irish breakfast we stopped to meet the horses before getting on the road (left side) off to Bruna Boinn archeological site which has the oldest Neolithic Graves in the world.

Looks like Rhode Island

It is eerie how much Howth, near Dublin, resembles home.  Same rocks, same seaweed. Same seagulls!  However you better keep to the left on the road.  We feasted on some tasty Mussels in White Wine and Cream at Bershoff's Market Kitchen.