#ballyconneely

[stochastique-blog]

Lol

🌊Visit Galway🌊🍀🇮🇪 #StoneFort #CliffEdge #DúnDúchathair #BlackFort #Inishmore #InisMór #AranIslands #Galway #Ireland 🇮🇪#VisitGalway #BunowenCastle #Ballyconneely #Connemara #Galway #Ireland #Staycation (w: Galway, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFOOnKkHabZ/?igshid=1crnhl4ntdw5r

[fabiofurlotti]

Saint Patrick’s Day 🇮🇪 - #saintpatricksday #irishlandscape #ireland #green #dronephotography #fabiofurlotti (presso Ballyconneely, Connemara) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp514_io53T/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[alexgolx]

Coral Strand on the Clifden side of Ballyconneely village looking out on Manin Bay.

[irish-artist-ie]

#Repost @susancroninsoilpaintings • • • • • • Terryglass 'Pure joy' Oil on canvas board 12x16inches 2020 The finished painting . I had such fun painting this scene and remembering all the great times we had in Ballyconneelly over the years😃. #oilonboard #oilpainter #oilpaintingartist #oilpaintingseascapes #artwork #artofthedaypicture #giftideas #giftsforfriends #gifts #wallartideas #womenartistsofinstagram #creatingart #creatorsofart #fineart #knifepaintings #irishcoast #ballyconneely #galwayireland #artoninsta #artforsale #wildatlanticway #contemporaryart #calledtobecreative #contemporaryartists #colorfulartwork #seascape_focus_on #seascapepainting #seascapeart #beachart https://www.instagram.com/p/B8-HH2unv0W/?igshid=vrqpqirjdfxk

[donnamcgee]

Soaking up 🌝& lots of inspiration in west of Ireland😎 . . . . . #Clifden #aasleighfalls #killaryfjord #leenane #rossleague #ballyconneely #dogsbay #gurteenbay #connemara (at Clifden)

[hariesautomoto]

Securely Moored (1) by HariesAutoMoto

[stairnaheireann]

Happiness is an inside job! #quote

Happiness is an inside job! #quote

Dia daoibh ar maidin. Good morning from Stair na hÉireann.

Ballyconneely, Connemara, Co Galway

[ilariac-photography]

#ireland #tourismireland #ireland_gram #discovernorthernireland #ireland_insta #insta_ireland #imagemagazineireland #ireland_daily #irelandtravel #irelandgram #irelandpassion #iloveireland #i_love_ireland #photoireland #irelandlovers #myireland #ballyconneely https://ift.tt/2O9SXHv

[foto-synteza]

Irlandia, Ballyconneely Bay

[guylty]

It’s time to get back into the groove. The round-ups have suffered greatly this year. Too many holidays! And there will be more weekend trips coming up, with some four dear fandom friends visiting me over the next couple of months, starting with Linda60 next week. Really, I have had my share of holidays this year. But Ireland is just too beautiful, no wonder I get so many visitors… quod erat demonstrandum

Roundwood, Co. Wicklow

Clifden, Co. Galway

Ballyconneely, Co. Galway

Lough Derryclare, Co. Galway

Grange, Co. Sligo

Kilcar, Co. Donegal

Slieve League, Co. Donegal

Sorry, now for the round-up. Get yourself a cup of your favourite tipple; this is gonna take a while.

Pinglyponglypeep reminisces about The Crucible. Do you agree?

Grimweaver has a theory why Esther voluntarily takes on the steering wheel in BS

I take it a “phone dump” is a show and tell of all the pictures you have on your phone. This is armitageadoration’s collection. What’s on yours?

Collection queen riepu10 brings us a sunglasses appreciation post

Here’s one of a series of textsfromoceans8 – aw, poor Claude…

I loved this “redraw” by blooeyedspazz who uses a RL photo as inspiration for a piece of Hobbit fan art

Fandomgalcentral reposts a rather unfortunate shot of a seated Kenneth in LLL *grins widely*

Remember John #6? A reminder by frida–y

Where’s the petition, g00doldboy, I’ll sign it straight away *whistles ‘I need a hero’ by Bonnie Tyler*

I usually do not post links to YT, and this is an old video to boot, but it is just too good, especially considering that Deborah Harkness’ Discovery of Witches is currently in post-production. Link supplied by deepestfirefun

A lot of time has passed between 1999 and 2012… as discovered by aelinnielelain

Gorgeous Thorin fan art by life-is-righteous

And a colourful manip by enulacampana

Clumsy-grumpy was bored… not bad for a doodle…

Did I already post this Hobbit AU by pherenikeh last time? If so, sorry, but I still think it’s fun

I didn’t actually read this Lucas fan fic, but just to add some fan fiction to the list, here is this offering by deepestfirefun

Pea coat love forevahhhh! Thanks, mezzmerizedbyrichard!!!

Oh, this was actually a bit shorter than I thought. Well, I hope you enjoyed nevertheless – at least you have more time for your weekend 😉. Myself, I’ll be trying to be creative. Because I have done it again. Despite having approximately 3000 mint tins in my stash, I couldn’t resist buying more when I was in Munich. What do you think – which one of these should I work on?

Yeah, I *had* to buy that porcelain rose necklace… you know why…

And now, happy weekend, all!

Guylty ❤️

  2018 Armitage Weekly Round-up #22 It's time to get back into the groove. The round-ups have suffered greatly this year. Too many holidays!

[newtechstudent]

🌊Visit Galway🌊🍀🇮🇪 #StoneFort #CliffEdge #DúnDúchathair #BlackFort #Inishmore #InisMór #AranIslands #Galway #Ireland 🇮🇪#VisitGalway #BunowenCastle #Ballyconneely #Connemara #Galway #Ireland #Staycation (w: Galway City Centre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGZG85XHZR6/?igshid=1f3gbujrrngg8

[faegrove]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I seen the dullahan myself, stopping on the brow of the hill between Bryansford and Moneyscalp late one evening, just as the sun was setting. It was completely headless but it held up its own head in its hand and I heard it call out a name. I put my hand across my ears in case the name was my own, so I couldn't hear what it said. When I looked again, it was gone. But shortly afterwards, there was a bad car accident on that very hill and a young man was killed. It had been his name that the dullahan was calling."  - W. J. Fitzpatrick 

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dullahan is a headless unseelie that is sometimes considered the male counter part to a banshee though that isn’t the most accurate. The Dullahan is a headless horseman like creature who, while headless, carries his head with him. Much like the H.H the Dullahan does ride a horse which is normally black.  ---   “Dullahans are headless. Although the dullahan has no head upon its shoulders, he carries it with him, either on the saddle-brow of his horse or upraised in his right hand. The head is the colour and texture of stale dough or mouldy cheese, and quite smooth. A hideous, idiotic grin splits the face from ear to ear, and the eyes, which are small and black, dart about like malignant flies. The entire head glows with the phosphoresence of decaying matter and the creature may use it as a lantern to guide its way along the darkened laneways of the Irish countryside. Wherever the dullahan stops, a mortal dies”. --- The Dullahan is also known for uh, well....he doesn’t like being watched. Lets just put it that way. He is known to thrown a blood at those watching or cause them to go blind in one eye or both using his whip, which is made of a human spine....sounds fun. --- The dullahan is usually mounted on a black steed, which thunders through the night. He uses a human spine as a whip. The horse sends out sparks and flames from its nostrils as it charges forth. In some parts of the country, such as County Tyrone, the dullahan drives a black coach known as the coach-a-bower (from the Irish coiste bodhar, meaning 'deaf or silent coach'). This is drawn by six black horses, and travels so fast that the friction created by its movement often sets on fire the bushes along the sides of the road. All gates fly open to let rider and coach through, no matter how firmly they are locked, so no one is truly safe from the attentions of this fairy.This fairy has a limited power of speech. Its disembodied head is permitted to speak just once on each journey it undertakes, and then has only the ability to call the name of the person whose death it heralds. A dullahan will stop its snorting horse before the door of a house and shout the name of the person about to die, drawing forth the soul at the call. He may also stop at the very spot where a person will die. On nights of Irish feast days, it is advisable to stay at home with the curtains drawn; particularly around the end of August or early September when the festival of Crom Dubh reputedly took place. If you have to be abroad at this time, be sure to keep some gold object close to hand. ---- Oh! Right...this Irish lad is very scared of gold. Wear some or throw some coins at him, Put it on your doors, widows, and gates and you should be fine....maybe make a gold leaf circle instead of salt.....well how far does the whip travel though...hmm. Just wear it, you should be good. ----  "A man was on his way home one night between Roundstone and Ballyconneely. It was just getting dark and, all of a sudden, he heard the sound of horse's hooves pounding along the road behind him. Looking around, he saw the dullahan on his charger, hurtling towards him at a fair speed. With a loud shout, he made to run but the thing came on after him, gaining on him all the time. In truth, it would have overtaken him and carried him away had he not dropped a gold-headed pin from the folds of his shirt on the road behind him. There was a roar in the air above him and, when he looked again, the dullahan was gone."  --- It is thought that the Dullahan might be the embodiment of Crom Dubh. He was a fertility god who liked his human souls.....his favorite method of having people sacrificed: Decapitation. Hmmmm. Nope. I’ll stick with Loki thanks. Overall, this guy would not be someone you would want to meet. ------ Element: Earth/ fire Season: Fall/ WInter Stones/ crystals: Opal, Tiger Eye, Topaz,  Citrine Tarot suit: Pentacles  Colours: Black, browns, dark greens and reds, oranges. Deals with: Strength and Harvest

[irishmeadows]

Ballyconneely, Co Galway, Ireland Poster by The Irish Image Collection

[francesexploring]

There’s always some truth behind “Just kidding”, knowledge behind “I don’t know”, emotion behind “I don’t care” and pain behind “It’s okay”. #ireland #connemara #wildatlanticway #visitgalway #femaleshutterbugs #female_igers_ireland_ #seascapes #seascape_lovers #photooftheday #instadaily #aov #discoverearth #earthfocus #ourplanetdaily #awesomeearth #createcommune #exploretocreate #beautifuldestinations #visualsofearth #explore #outdoors #earthofficial #folkscenery #nakedplanet #peoplescreatives #postitfortheaesthetic #keepitwild #sea #sealovers #nature (at Dunloughan, Ballyconneely, Galway) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKNARCdMHgU/?igshid=1sptka3tv73g

[ericvick]

Indeed, Dorchester’s John King is Ireland’s latest household title

WICKLOW, Ireland — 1 of the issues that American people to Ireland are typically confounded by is the extent to which individuals below are steeped in and educated about politics 3,000 miles absent. The transatlantic ties sewn by emigration, family and, increasingly, company are mainly accountable. And Irish folks like their politics. Over the previous four several years, it has been with a combination of disbelief and horror that they have appeared on at the Trump administration.

Accordingly, they weren’t about to cease observing until eventually they understood, for sure, who would be inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2021. A man who is recognised all over the US and to persons across Massachusetts owing to his lengthy, stellar profession at CNN, but who is specially common to Dorchester natives and citizens since he grew up in St. Mark’s Parish, so made an amazing entrance on to Ireland’s collective radar screen: It is no overstatement to say that John King was the most listened to and trustworthy personal in this region in the days after Nov. 3. More on Ireland’s newest movie star momentarily.

Back in East Milton, wherever I grew up, it’s truthful to say that politics was invariably to the fore in our house. My father, one more Larry, was a fount of wisdom about the toughest enterprise of them all. He grew up in and close to it. I want he experienced stood for office himself.

His brother Brian was a Massachusetts condition agent from Dorchester who later on invested 7 terms in the United States House of Associates and served as ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago even though Monthly bill Clinton was president. Their uncles, Frank and John Kelly, had been Boston town councillors, with Frank afterwards serving as lieutenant governor and legal professional normal and operating unsuccessfully for governor. It is in the blood. A relevant undesirable routine I picked up from my Father at a younger age was incessantly hollering again at the tv and radio when politics and current affairs ended up currently being talked about. I’ve routinely assumed that “I know greater!” and have to get my two cents in. In reality, I was jealous of these who generate a residing from talking about what is my passion.

But Boston Irish legal professionals with a solid interest in politics and an affiliation to the Democratic Occasion are much more dime a dozen than diamond in the tough in the land of my beginning. A single of the quite a few unforeseen benefits of relocating to Eire nearly two decades ago, nonetheless, has been recognizing what has constantly been a desire and taking on what has morphed into a 2nd vocation for me: media punditry on the politics of the two sites I will endlessly think about home.

Given that 2008, it has been a privilege to evaluate the outcomes of US presidential elections as they arrive in on what is typically the first Tuesday in November on RTÉ, the countrywide broadcaster. Given the time change, it is an overnight shift. This calendar year, the protection was anchored by Caitríona Perry, who claimed on American politics brilliantly in her tenure as the network’s Washington correspondent and has composed two insightful publications on the election of Donald Trump and the influence of Irish The usa.

We had been joined by a lot of high profile attendees from the US, these kinds of as previous White House Chief of Stuff Mick Mulvaney, previous Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, previous New York Congressman Joe Crowley, and sitting down Philadelphia Congressman Brendan Boyle. Our live system wrapped up soon after 4 a.m., Irish time, when the outcome was not fully distinct, but the crucial indicators have been all pointing to a acquire for Joe Biden.

Then, many thanks to satellite technologies, a person who was brought up in a threedecker between Ashmont and Fields Corner arrived into sitting rooms in each and every metropolis, city, village, and rural location.

Irish men and women are accustomed to protracted election counts and couldn’t get plenty of of it as John King broke down the final results condition by condition and county by county, demonstrating a extensive expertise as he retained heading on almost no slumber and buckets of espresso. The “magic wall” of the US he and many others use at CNN took on a daily life of itself. And inevitably, the viewers had to obtain out: Could they assert him? The screenwriter of the strike comedy “Derry Girls” questioned if he was Irish in a tweet. King’s succinct reply – “Always”- sealed the offer. In a subsequent job interview with the much beloved Miriam O’Callaghan on her Sunday morning radio clearly show, King downplayed the multiple compliments available by the host and her listeners. Acquiring completed his research, he explained Miriam as Ireland’s Oprah.

He also spoke movingly about his family, in specific his late father Chris (who, coincidentally, was a Dorchester present-day and pal of my Dad’s) and his Connemara-born grandparents, as well as the beneficial lessons figured out in childhood that have remained with him. Like so several People prior to him, King is now preparing a stop by back again “home” to Galway to reunite with his cousins and get a fuller feeling of his roots.

He has mentioned that he seems ahead to a number of pints in Keogh’s in his ancestral village of Ballyconneely – so deep in the west of Eire that the up coming stop basically is Boston. He’ll have a rough time shopping for his personal, however.

In his generally specialist interaction of what actually transpired in Election 2020, John King received the rapt notice and sincere admiration of the Irish people today. He did his family and the community that formed him extremely very pleased.

Larry Donnelly is a Boston-born legal professional, a Regulation Lecturer at the Nationwide College of Eire, Galway and a typical Irish media contributor on politics, existing affairs and legislation on both sides of the Atlantic. He is on Twitter @LarryPDonnelly.

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[mcksimon]

Double rainbow over Grace O'Malley (the Pirate Queen) castle, Bunowen, Ballyconneely, Co. Galway, Ireland, Aug 2017