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Category Archives: History
Stresa (and Hemingway) in Monochrome
We started our three-week visit to Italy in 2009 with a four-day stay in Milan and after seeing just about everything we wanted to see in two days we then on day three took the train to Stresa, a resort … Continue reading
Posted in History, Italy, Literature, Travel
Tagged A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway, Luigi Cadorna, monochrome photography, photography, Piazza Cadorna, Stresa, travel, travel photography, World War I
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Monterey’s Cannery Row
The central California coastline of Monterey Bay stretches for about 44 miles from Santa Cruz in the north to Pacific Grove in the south. The last six tenths of a mile of the road that runs along the city of … Continue reading
Ireland 2019: Dublin’s Merrion Square
The four Georges from the German House of Hanover ruled Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1830 and this period as well as the popular architectural style of the time has become known as Georgian. Early in the 18th … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, History, Ireland, Travel
Tagged A Tribute Head, Dublin, Eleanor Shanley, Georgian architecture, Irish Defense Forces Monument, Irish music, Merrion Square, Merrion Square Park, Merrion Square playground, Oscar Wilde, photography, Restless Farewell, Ronnie Drew, The Joker's Chair, The Parting Glass, The Victims, travel, travel photography
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Ireland 2019: Dublin’s EPIC Museum
On the fifth of July last year we woke up to a rainy Friday morning in Dublin and thought what would be a better day than to visit the magnificent museum next door to our hotel: EPIC the Irish Emigration … Continue reading
Ireland 2019: The Book of Kells
St Columcille was a prominent Irishman of the 6th century who founded 27 monasteries all over Ireland including one at Kells in what is now County Meath. In 563 Columcille and 12 of his followers traveled to the tiny island … Continue reading
Ireland 2019: Our Dublin Sightseeing Tour, Part Two
As mentioned at the end of my last post, my wife, two daughters and three granddaughters hopped off the bus to visit the two cathedrals of Christ Church and St Patrick’s while my two sons-in-law, my grandson and I stayed … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, History, Ireland, Travel
Tagged Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Guinness Storeroom, Kilmainham Gaol, Phoenix Park, photography, sightseeing, Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, St James Church, St James Gate, St Patrick's Cathedral, the Liberties, travel, travel photography, Wellington Monument
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Ireland 2019: Dublin’s O’Connell Street
O’Connell Street is the city of Dublin’s major thoroughfare. It runs from the River Liffey at O’Connell Bridge northward for 500 meters to Parnell Square. In the 17th century it was called Drogheda Street for Henry Moore, the Earl of … Continue reading
Posted in History, Ireland, Travel
Tagged Charles Stewart Parnell, Daniel O'Connell, Dublin, Father Theobald Mathew, General Post Office, James Joyce, Lord Horatio Nelson, Nelson's Farewell, Nelson's Pillar, O'Connell Street, photography, Sir John Gray, The Dubliners, The Spire of Dublin, travel, travel photography, William Smith O'Brien
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Ireland 2019: Connemara, Part Four — Ross Errily Friary
There are more than 100 medieval monastic sites lying in ruins all over Ireland. Followers of St Patrick began building them in the 6th century. Viking raiders began destroying them in the 9th century. Norman conquerors began building more in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Ireland, Travel
Tagged Connemara, County Galway, County Mayo, Eleanor Shanley, Franciscan friaries, Galway, Headford, Irish abbeys, Irish music, Kilkelly, photography, Ross Errilly Friary, travel, travel photography
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Ireland 2019: The Rest of the Ulster Museum
Believe it or not, we actually saw other things in the Ulster Museum that had nothing to do with the Game of Thrones. Unless, that is, these dinosaurs are considered cousins of dragons:
Posted in Art, History, Ireland, Travel
Tagged Belfast, National Museums Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland, Phil Coulter, photography, Sinead O'Connor, travel, travel photography, Ulster Museum
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Ireland 2019: The Titanic Museum
It was a rainy day in Belfast, the day after all our adventures along the north Antrim coast (see here, here, here and here), and we were still exhausted. So it wasn’t until mid-afternoon when we finally ventured out of … Continue reading
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