Tag: Ireland
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A Morning on The Seafront
Featured Image Wynand van Poortvliet Upsplash.com We are blessed to live in the Emerald Isle. Emerald, because Ireland is so green, all year round. If you talk to ‘the strangers’ about Ireland, their first comment is, “It’s always cold and raining there.” Well it’s not always cold and raining, only about 80% of the time!…
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Michael Collins – The Movie
Feature Photo Michael Collins – The Movie A Film Review by sirpeterjames.com. Neil Jordan directs this film, and it stars Liam Neeson as the man, Michael Collins, Aiden Quinn as Hary Boland, and Julia Roberts as the romantic figure in both the lives of Michael and Harry. The filming of this movie in 1996 took…
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Ireland-The Quiet Man Movie
Feature Photo: The Quiet Man – Behind the Scenes Mostly Westerns A Review by sirpeterjames.com. Here’s a real oldie, shot in Ireland in 1952. The Quiet Man is based on a 1933 Saturday Evening Post short story by Irish novelist Maurice Walsh. The story was adapted for the movie by screenwriters Frank S Nugent and…
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Ryan’s Daughter-A Movie About Ireland.
Featured Image by Tommy Kwaky Upsplash.com Review By sirpeterjames.com Here is an oldie, filmed in 1970 in breathtaking locations by masters of cinematography. The location was largely Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. But the beach scenes were filmed on Long Beach, south of Noordhoek, Cape Town, South Africa. The movie won two Oscars and…
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The Field-A Movie About Ireland
A Movie filmed and released in Ireland, in 1990 by Jim Sheridan. Based on the stage play of the same name written by John B Keene. (Produced by Gemini Productions at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin in 1965.) Review by Sir Peter James Dotcome. I viewed the movie through the courtesy of YouTube, and the…
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Ireland Bound-The Wheelchair Wizards
Ireland, A trip to remember. At the insistence of our children, my wife and I decided to pack up our home in South Africa and emigrate to Ireland. Given our age and many other vital factors, we decided this would be the wisest thing to do. It was late 2020 and under severe lock-down conditions…
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Weekly Words of Wisdom Think Positive.
Feature Photo by Viktor Forgacs Upsplash.com Think Positive? I could never understand why so many people say, “Be positive.” How can I become positive? I asked myself. With this, I went on a journey to find out how to be positive, but to no avail. I was exhausted. Sitting down under a tree, I fell…
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Black Rock Castle
The Ruins of Black Rock Castle The first evidence of human presence in Ireland may date to around 10,500 to 8,000 BC. The receding of the ice after the Younger Dryas cold phase of the Quaternary around 9700 BC, heralds the beginning of Prehistoric Ireland, which includes the archaeological periods known as the Mesolithic, the…
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Why Ireland?
Ireland is not only a land of great beauty, but also a land steeped in history and folk-lore. Wicklow is the Garden County of Ireland and there is beauty everywhere. Who would have thought of a Fairy forest? Nestled away in a group of trees are little dwellings belonging to Fairy folk. there no instructions…
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Forgotten Dream
I was all of twelve years old and very impressionable; we were in 1954 Southern Rhodesia, an exciting country, wide open spaces, not many towns and even these were spread, miles apart from one another. My father was the sole representative for a brewing company and travelled around the country a great deal, often taking…
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