Welcome to our Irish thatched cottage in Oughterard, County Galway, on the west coast of Ireland.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. Originally posted on ELLIOT LAKE News. Hold censuses on ethnicity but follows instead its ideal of the. This, obviously, does not change the ethnic reality. On the ground, but it certainly helps to keep its citizens in the dark about it.

Saturday, 14 February 2015. A Poem for My Seventy-third Birthday. At the church of Our Lady and Saint Walstan, in Advent,. They did all the right things. Toys, that the Salvation Army would distribute among the poor,. Foodstuffs for the hungry;. Sat with him, right by the stable door;.

Most of Ireland was covered with ice until the end of the last ice age over 9,000 years ago. Sea levels were lower and Ireland, like Great Britain, was part of continental Europe. Mesolithic stone age inhabitants arrived some time after 8,000 BC and agriculture followed with the Neolithic Age around 4,500 to 4,000 BC when sheep, goats, cattle and cereals were imported from the Iberian peninsula. In contrast to the larger island, which he called. In his later work,.