EPISODE 435 IRELAND PICS #2
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- ^ 1937, Hedstrom, E.H. Phase Measurements in Electrical Prospecting. AIME Tech. Publ. 827
EPISODE 433 BONMAHON, IRELAND, AS SEEN IN 1960…and subsequent visits to rural ireland
By far the greatest concentration of these clocháin in Ireland is on the Dingle Peninsula, and almost all are found west of Mount Brandon.. the fact that these huts are found in such great numbers to the west of Brandon, yet are very much rarer in other parts of Kerry and elsewhere throughout the country, strongly suggests that these clocháin were the temporary habitations of pilgrims waiting for sufficiently clement weather to climb Mount Brandon. In a similar vein, one can explain those in the Glenfahan area, between Ventry and Slea Head, as temporary shelters for those awaiting the right wind to waft them to the Skelligs. If this explanation is correct, then the clocháin could truly be described as Ireland’s first and oldest surviving bed and breakfast establishments.”A SURPRISEI punched up St. Skeoch in hopes of discovering who this sixth century saint really was…if she ever existed. MAYBE the records of these beehive huts would help my search. Surprise! Up cameEpisode 145: LEGEND OF THE SKEOCH NAME…OCTOBER 21, 2020 BY TERRAVIVA. My own musings. Did a saint or a monk by that name ever sit in one of theseancient bee hives. Silly. Waste of time;GROUP FIVE: STRANGE OBJECT ON BONMAHON BEACH“WHAT IS that big round rusty ball?”“Decommissioned floating mine from World War II.”“Any other reminders of the war?”“Some. German bomber crews tried to land damaged planesin Ireland. One landed nearby. The crew survived, werekept here then returned to Germany when the war ended. The captainand his family came back here on a holiday a while back.”(IN 1915 The passenger ship Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine near Kinsale…west of Bonmahon. Many hundreds of civilians drowned)GROUP NUMBER SIX WHY WERE SO MANY OLD STONE HOUSES ROOFLESS?In 1842 a German writer and geographer called Johann Georg Kohl travelled around Ireland, publishing an account of his journey the following year. “Of all the countries in the world”, he observed, “Ireland is the country for ruins. Here you have ruins of every period of history, from the time of the Phoenicians down to the present day… each century has marked its progress by the ruins it has left.MORE TO COME IN NEXT EPISODEalan skeoch
EPISODE 434 GARDEN FLOWERS AT THEIR BEST…THE FROST IS COMING SADLY
EPISODE 428 “THE QUIET MAN”…through the mind of a 22 year old Canadian who had never heard of the movie
The Quiet Man and Other Stories
Fwd: EPISODE 432 STRANGE LIGHTS IN THE MIDNIGHT SKY
EPISODE 432 STRANGE LIGHTS IN THE MIDNIGHT SKYalan skeochsept. 2021Not quite dark enough yet…and looking south where lights can be explained…civilization.Turning around and looking Northwest, we did once see strange lights above the horizon where no lights should be.
“When it gets really dark, let’s stroll the beach and look for those strange lights in the midnight sky.”‘Sounds a bit wacko”“You saw them a couple of years ago, did you not?”“I did…but there must be an explanation other than alien spacecraft.”“But lights out there in the empty vastness of Georgian Bay…in the midnight sky…wherenothing exists in daylight…how is that explained?”“Some screwball out there with a flashlight.”“More than one light,remember…and well above the horizon”“A screwball with friends in helicopters”“Alan, sometimes you can be irritating.”“OK, Penny, I did see those strange lights.”“And other people have seen them…remember the person we interviewed…shetook the lights for granted as normal at night.”“Let’s just go for a midnight walk in on the beach and keepour eyes focused northwest.”“No lights out there tonight.”“Are there really strange things seen in the sky?”“President Jo Biden promises to release UFO sightings recorded by pilots andlisted as unexplainable….doing it right nw, this year.”“Maybe we can invite Biden to visit Concession 12 for coffee ad a stroll alongthe beach.”“Nope”“Why not?”“American border is crossed only with caution due to Pandemic…the virus…Joe just cannot pop up here.”Footnote: UFO sightings can usually be explained as natural phenomena. One of thelatest explanations is that drones or sophisticated weather balloons can account for manysightings. Hallucinations also may be factors. We love to dabble in the unknownand then hook explanations to what we do not know or understand. Best to keepour feet on the ground but our minds open. In our case we have had a lot offun speculating. Keep it that way. The Internet is loaded with conspiracy theoriesso be careful.A LITTLE BIT OF MYSTERY PUTS SPICE IN OUR COFFEE CUPS
EPISODE 432 THE BIG CHUTE…white water rafting at its best…if you have the guts.
EPISODE 432 THE BIG CHUTE…white water rafting at its best…if you have the guts.
EPISODE 430 TURQUOISE ARM CHAIRS ON AN EMPTY BEACH
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Computer has gone weird…I will be off line until Friday
EPISODE 428 alan…Thinking of THE QUIET MAN…COULD THE REAL IRELAND BE THAT CHARMING?
EPISODE 428 COULD THE REAL IRELAND BE AS CHARMING AS “THE QUIET MAN”?
SHORT NOTE TO AIDAN COFFEY
Well…quite a response to your paintings Aidan…and to your email.
How to proceed? I feel best if I start with ‘The Quiet Man’ and the film’s influence on me back in 1960 in a Dublin movie house that had been showing the film since 1953…continuously.
Could Ireland be anything like the romantic interpretation of that film? Not Bloody likely….or so I thought before travelling south to Bonmahon. As things turned out Ireland was just as charming…as warm and friendly…as funny…as human in the best sense. I like to put a positive spin on my life journey…push the dark away.
I will try to tie these thoughts to pictures taken at the time and a little later. Nice to remember.
alan