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Irish Odyssey, Day 5: Pure Nostalgia and Family History

Having once got into hot water over the word “Bog” which was taken as a slur, I was wary about “The Kerry Bog Village – 18th/19th Century”, and doubly so when we neared the...
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Norman (aka George) and Doreen Lindegaard dtanding arm in arm with a view of the Gap of Dunlow

Irish Odyssey Day 4. The Gap of Dunloe

When it comes to the actualité of Day Four, I have a memory lapse and here, I shall commit sacrilege:  I can take or leave views. I like to be in among them rather...
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Kevin Lindegaard doing a selfie in front of Allihies engine house.

Irish Odyssey Day 3 concluded. The Engine House

 “Around 1700, a strange noise began reverberating around British mineshafts. That noise – harbinger of the Industrial Revolution – was subtle at first, but it grew louder with each passing decade until it enveloped...
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The Museum of Bath Stone (the story of Combe Down and its stone)

Contrary to opinion, I don’t spend all my time chained to a computer, and I am trying to write shorter blogs.  This is a small, interesting Museum about one of my niche subjects where...
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The Loss of the Barque “Wilson” of Bristol, 1833. Everyone aboard SAVED!

This short entry is in the grand tradition of Serendipity, or “One thing leads to another”.  Elsewhere in this blog, you will find the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, on Day 3 of the...
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DP Lindegaard outside the Allihies mIning Museum. She is wearing a blue cardigan and leaning on a walking stick. The white walls of the musiem are behind her.

Irish Odyssey Day 3, Part 2

“By Ros, Car, Lan, Tre, Pol and Pen shall ye know Cornishmen”. (Survey of Cornwall, Richard Carew, 1602) The white walls and plain, utilitarian lines, (none the worse for that), tell a tale. In...
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Irish Odyssey Day 3 part 1- A Unique Cable Car, a Model Enthusiast & “Cousin Jack” at Allihies.

I refer you back to the teasing trailer elsewhere on this blog called “If there is a hole dug anywhere on earth, you’re sure to find a Cornishman at the Bottom”. At Allihies, the...
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Norman aka"George" Lindegaard - before and after shots. The first looking up from his newspaper looking miserable and the second looking happy.

Irish Odyssey – Day 2. Famine, (& what the contemporary Bristol papers said); Lough Hyne & Bristol University; Holy Water & Essential Virtues

The second day of our Irish Odyssey, 11 April, along the Wild Atlantic Way started at Skibbereen. George’s expression in these photos could represent “Before” and “After” though they were taken seconds apart. In...
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The Laxey Wheel with a blue sky behind

The Great Laxey Wheel & the Miners of Laxey and Snaefell

Caroline said “What about the Isle of Man? I’ve always fancied going there.” We were planning a few days away, somewhere not too arduous, for around the time of my 86th birthday in June...
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aerial view of the Lusitania Memorial Garden in County Cork, Ireland

An Irish Odyssey – Part 1: The Lusitania

On 9 April 2025, three of us, George, Kevin and me, were in Ireland; George is a native Irishman, Kevin, a passport holder, and me, a Brit, without a red corpuscle of Irish blood,...
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