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DP Lindegaard and Norman aka "George" Lindegaard sat on a wall huddled together on a sunny day atop Valentia Island in Kerry.

Irish Odyssey Day 6, Part 1: Valentia Island and the Richards Family of Kingswood

In our house, Valentia Island is iconic.  If you knew the hair-raising, but much mocked, story of George’s first visit there, more than 70 years ago, with his Mum to buy a pig’s head...
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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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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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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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