Tag: Rural
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Fire – New Book 4
It was one of those nights when low-lying clouds virtually covered the sky, obscuring almost all the light from the moon, making the entire area dark and impenetrable. Then, in the blackness of the night, bright flames coloured red, orange, yellow, and gold stretched upwards to the sky giving light to the dark clouds as […]
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Stories of Seamus No. 20
Terry Toner’s Gander This is a story of Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century and tells about Terry Toner, an honest young man from a very well-to-do farming family, who rented the biggest farm on this side of the Black Mountains. Because Terry was enthusiastic about farming, worked hard on his father’s farm, […]
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Stories of Seamus No10
Hugh John Hugh John McClean was a perfect example of a rural Irish man; he was a good neighbour, a hard worker, and a man always on the look-out for an easier way to make his living. All of his life he had lived in a small country cottage, which was eventually left to him […]
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THE OLD BOREEN.
By Arthur M. Forrester. (1890) Embroidered with shamrocks and spangled with daisies, Tall foxgloves like sentinels guarding the way, The squirrel and hare played bo-peep in its mazes, The green hedgerows wooed it with odorous spray; The thrush and the linnet piped overtures in it, The sun’s golden rays bathed its bosom of green. Bright […]
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TURF
Ireland’s Natural Resource Any person who lives outside of Ireland, when they hear the word ‘Turf’ think of the green grass of a football pitch, or the horse-racing course, or a golf course. But for us Irish, the word brings to our minds lapping flames in a fire on a cold winter’s night, and the […]
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Fingers Kelly’s Vision
Throughout Ireland, there are many hills, and all are of varying sizes. Some are covered in forest, some covered in gorse and heather, some covered in grass, and some others with rock and shale. Each and every hill has its own story in local folklore, but there are some which are particularly renowned. One particular […]
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