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Ancient stone circle

The Stone Circles and Druids of Ireland

___TVE_SHORTCODE_RAW__<p><em>Have you heard of the Druids of Ireland? Long before Christianity reached Ireland’s shores, there was a complex culture of beliefs involving the practices of law, medicine, and the oral tradition. In this <a href="https://www.aletterfromireland.com/letter/">letter</a> we discuss the Druids, the ancient intellectual class of ancient Ireland.</em></p><p><a href=”https://www.aletterfromireland.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/facebook20-2.jpg”><img class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-307″ src=”https://www.aletterfromireland.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/facebook20-2.jpg” alt=”” width=”960″ height=”720″ /></a></p><p><strong>Céad…

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The Wine Geese of France

A very important occasion has just occurred here in Ireland  – the first of the early potatoes have just been harvested. They have a taste like no other – and, as you probably realise, it is a vegetable that has special significance in Irish history. I wrote in an earlier letter about the link between…

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An Irish Mentor

Céad Míle Fáilte – and you are very welcome to this week’s Letter from Ireland. It’s a bring day here in County Cork – and shaping up to be a very nice day for the sea and maybe a few photographs. I hope you are doing well wherever you are in the world today –…

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Saints, Scholars and Irish Family Surnames

We’re just back from a wonderful trip to the County Down in Ulster – travelling between the Mountains of Mourne, the Linen Museums and some Castles that you may recognise from “Game of Thrones” (if you are a fan!). Just before we left for County Down, we took a trip to Drombeg Stone circle located…

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