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Tag Archives: Ireland
Is America Wearing the Same Old Historical Rags?
I have been remiss in blog writing. I can hardly find the time to write, edit, and wrap my mind and heart around the times we’re living in. I have so much to say, but how to say it slant? … Continue reading
Posted in Famine, Ireland, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged America, American Revolution, Civil War, history, inspiration, Ireland, misogyny, novel, slavery, women, xenophobia
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My Seventh Journey to Ireland
It had been seven years since my last Ireland visit and when I traveled on August 7th, it was my seventh journey to celebrate a January 7th birthday. I hadn’t an inkling there were so many seven occurrences until a … Continue reading
Posted in Famine, Ireland, Journey, Writing
Tagged An Gorta Mor, art, Beara Peninsula, Cailleach, Clare, dance, famine, food, hiking, Ireland, Kilnaboy, memorials, memory, the Hag Goddess, writing
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A Woman Needs A Woman to Pray To!
It is a frigid -2 degrees morning with glittering sun-gold snow mounds and I am in need of prayer. I’ve been weakened by the flu and the vicissitudes of life. And yet I am hopeful and grateful this day, even … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Draft Riots, hope, Ireland, novel New York City, prayer, St. Brighid, St. Brigid, St. Brigit
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Listening to Ghosts
I desire silence. I want to be free from the noise that humans make. I fear I will never be free from this noise. I’m often in the woods and I still hear a car that is miles away or … Continue reading
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Tagged ghosts, history, hunger, Ireland, Irish Famine, silence, The Famine Plot, Tim Pat Coogan, writing
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Shameless Promotion
New Hampshire Union Leader 05/03/2012, Page L02 Between the Pages NH author chronicles life of 19th-century Irish immigrant By PAT DeCOLA New Hampshire Union Leader Cynthia Neale is just a soft spoken, well-read mother of one who grew up in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1850s, An Gorta Mor, books, famine, Gangs of New York, historical fiction, Ireland, movies, New York City, novel, rejection, writing
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St. Brigid and The Murmurings of Spring
I grew up in Watkins Glen, New York and there were so many Italian-Americans living there that the town was oftentimes derogatorily referred to as Wop Town. I was sometimes called Redheaded Wop because I had flaming red hair and … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic seasons, Dolores Whelan, healing, holy wells, Imbolc, Ireland, Italian-American, Liscannor, Mother Mary, Norah, red head, springtime, St. Brigid, statutes, transformation
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A Fairy Blast on St. Patrick’s Day
I hated my red hair in the sixties. One St. Patrick’s Day, I sneaked green food color out of the house and poured it on my head in the school bathroom. It rained at recess and green flowed onto my … Continue reading
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