With my recent burst of 1000 and 2000 word entries into the polemical world, I was at a slight loss this morning on my subject or thought for today. Until I read a piece in the realboyle.com blog, a quinquediurnal blog ably written up and produced by Mr Sean O’Dowd, who wanders round the highways and byeways of Boyle with… (more…)
As yesterdays blog exhausted me I am today looking for the easy option and enclose an excerpt from my Memoir written in December 2005 when Ireland was still full of confidence and money, enjoying the ride on the Celtic Tiger’s back. In September 2005 we put our Manchester house on the market and retired to Boyle in the County Roscommon,… (more…)
To divert away from yesterday’s theme I want today to try and paint a picture in words of the beautiful, rich and sometimes wild and rugged landscape that surrounds us here in Boyle and how that landscape formed the archaeological heritage we have today. It is hard to understand how much the reader knows of the past and its timescale… (more…)