Category Archives: Ancestors

Kirk to Kirk…

We were greeted by the sight of yet another jackdaw, studiously ignoring the offended pigeon whose headstone it had invaded. There was so much in the body language of these two that any further attempt to understand their various languages … Continue reading

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A Rebellious Streak…

Sir Toby Belcher * Rudy Trudy… No puddin’… No pie… Jabbed… The plebs… And made them… Cry… When the truckers… Came to play… Rudy Trudy… Ran away! * The now slightly portly figure of Sir Toby paced the church hall … Continue reading

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The Calling – Review…

Top reviews from other countries Hey Presto 5.0 out of 5 stars Magical from start to finish Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on 21 January 2023 Verified Purchase Read in one gulp and magical from start to finish. An account or … Continue reading

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Big Book of Giants…

* Beyond the forest’s leafy shade, The hooded one, with giant’s pace From pinnacle to pinnacle Leap’t silently, in moonlit grace…  * In eremitic solitude In caverns deep to meditate… Within, the riddle of the night, A key that will … Continue reading

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Sheela’s Mystery Solved?

County Meath, Sunday, 31st July 2022… *** *** Perhaps, like the ‘tomb raiders’ at Dowth, we are looking for treasures of the wrong kind, in the wrong place? *** She’s at the base of the stone on the right! *** … Continue reading

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Of kings and stone…

County Meath, Sunday, 31st July 2022… *** *** All roads lead to Tara as they say. * Or at least all the roads in Ireland. *** *** But like so much else that we have considered on this trip what … Continue reading

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Dowth…

County Meath, Sunday, 31st July 2022… *** *** The dowdiest of the three Boyne Monuments but, in some ways, the friendliest. * No time restrictions, no imminent threat of film-show dread, no waiting bus, full of chattering strangers… * Just … Continue reading

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Art and Function…

County Meath, Saturday, 30th July 2022… *** *** The eastern entrance stone and the two standing stones in front of it are instrumental in recording the equinox. * No one knows what the ovoid shaped stone to the left is … Continue reading

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Knowth…

County Meath, Saturday, 30th July 2022… *** *** Knowth gives us a relatively accurate picture of what Loughcrew might once have looked like… *** *** …With its large mound dedicated to the equinoxes and a whole host of satellites briefly … Continue reading

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‘Ch… Ch… Changes’…

County Meath, Saturday, 30th July 2022… *** The entrance stone of New Grange. *** …It is easy to say, certainly, but less easy to say what is, in fact, happening with such changes in form. *** New Grange Gnomon-Stone. *** … Continue reading

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