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Hugh O’Flaherty
The name Hugh O’Flaherty crops up occasionally as you travel around Ireland. The statue below is just outside the walls of Killarney House. What’s interesting about the statue is the glass eyes – not something you see every day. Hugh O’Flaherty was a catholic priest who was working in the Vatican during the second world […]
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More from Ireland
I’m just started working on the pictures from Ireland so will publish a few here as I go. They are in no particular order. Below is a shot of the graveyard at the back of the church in the village of Inistioge. Parts of many of the old catholic churches and monasteries around Ireland are […]
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Galway
We left Kenmare for Galway June 10. We decided to drive to Tarbert and take the ferry over to County Claire. We stopped in Kilkee and started looking for a place to eat when a woman came up to us and suggested the Diamond Rocks Cafe – close to the rocks and cliffs at the […]
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More from Kenmare
June 7 we went to Gleninchaquin Park which is on a working farm. A thirty minute drive from Kenmare, most of that time was on a one lane road with grass growing down the middle. Coming in and out we met about half a dozen vehicles, requiring one or the other to find a space […]
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Kenmare and the Ring of …
On the road again. We went out of our way to stop at the town of Kinsale and have lunch. However, we shortened our stay on Kinsale because of rain and headed off to our place in Kenmare. After grocery shopping we stopped at a pub for clam chowder. The following day we did the […]
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Kilkenny etc.
To finish the story in Dublin – we got talking and didn’t make it out to O’Donoghue’s like we had planned. We did drop by to take a look the next day and the bar portion where the music is played is postage-stamp-sized. Next door is a nicer pub named after an Irish revolutionary by […]
WR Foster 