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   From: cu072@FreeNet.Carleton.CA   
      
   The Colonial Boy (republican@email.com) writes:   
   > On 18 Mar 2007 06:41:01 GMT, cu072@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Elaine Stutt)   
    - snips -   
   >Um, I've been to New Grange and I guess Dowth, the one that's less   
   >>accessable.  At the time we were there, twenty years ago, we got into   
   >>New Grange with not much of a wait.  We rented bicycles in   
   >>DroicheadAth Drogheda and rode out to the site.  It was pretty and   
   >>rural. I hear they want to ram a large freeway through the area now   
   >>or close to Tara which I believe is nearby.   
   >>   
   >>As to the site, I love stone so it was a thrill to get inside it.   
   >>   
   >>Tell us some of your impressions.   
   >   
   > I could write a book on the subject. I'd almost rather recommend a few   
   > authors rather than launch into that myself:   
   >   
   > - Michael Kirby - who only died recently at the age of 98 - he was a   
   > friend of my great grandfather but fought against my great-great uncle   
   > Pat O'Connell in the Irish Civil War in 1922-1923...it was like that   
   > in County Kerry then...(see 'Tragedies of Kerry' for details)   
   > - Ann Sullivan - for her archaeological work on the neo-lithic remains   
   > around the Iveragh peninsula   
   > - Leabhar Sean Ui Chonaill (the brother of my great-great grandfather   
   > and the last famous, in Ireland anyway, Seanachie)   
   >   
   >>Skelling Michael looks like   
   >>a spectacular location from the pictures.   
   >   
   > My mother's family come from the town, Ballinskelligs, that was the   
   > supply town to Skellig Michael. I've walked up those steps in my bare   
   > feet and looked across to Little Skellig. I've drunk from the well at   
   > amongst the Clochanai...as I drank from the same spring that supplied   
   > my O'Connell ancestors.   
   >   
   > Is mise le meas   
   > Nik O'Kiwi   
      
   Great.  It's really wonderful to able to have a direct connection to your   
   ancestors.  Also neat when those roots are near such a site.   
      
   I may get around to the books.  The one in Irish?  You never know.   
   I stopped studying Irish a while ago but if I wanted to pick it up   
   again getting into a book might be the best way.   
      
   A Seanachie is a traditional story teller.  One who memorised stories,   
   many quite old that might go back to the Druids.  I believe some   
   of the story tellers were recorded.  Can you tell us a little about   
   Sean Ui Chonaill or Seanachies in general?   
      
   Elaine   
      
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