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Ollamh Fódhla ar lár – Canad don Long? Ollamh Fódhla is gone – where to the barque? Of Ireland, the wordsmith is king, a person of many parts and humors. Such as ColmCille were great Ollamhs. We have had the privilege to live in the time of one such Ollamh and Seámus Heaney’s passing renders […]

Summer here at last?  The blue tits (Meantán Gorm) over the door are feeding their young and a lot of the household here are decamping to Comórtas Peile na Gaeltachta this weekend which is in Gaeltacht na Déise and will be a great weekend of spórt.  With the house so quite – only half of […]

  Tháinig an cuach.  Tá na healaí ag deineamh nead. Tá na beacha lag.  The cuckoo arrived on Saturday, The swans are building a nest and the bees are weak. But the weather is good for a change and gardens are being planted.  A busy week here also with both choirs singing this weekend in […]