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Showing posts with label Co Galway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Co Galway. Show all posts
28 March 2026

Mowbray Stephen O’Rorke,
the bishop with the ‘tallest
mitre in Christendom’ and
his family roots in Ballinasloe

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The tomb of Bishop Mowbray Stephen O’Rorke in the Shrine Church in Walsingham (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2026) Patrick Comerford Fo...
04 February 2025

Daily prayer in Ordinary Time 2025:
2, Tuesday 4 February 2025

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‘The Daughter of Jairus’ by James Tissot (1836-1902) Patrick Comerford The 40-day season of Christmas came to end on Sunday with the Fea...
03 October 2024

DNA and a scientist’s
challenge to racism
show how we are all
related since 1400

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The cover of ‘Clancarty: The high times and humble origins of a noble Irish family’ by Rod Smith … launched in London today Patrick Comerf...
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12 September 2024

Clancarty: The high times
and humble origins of
a noble Irish family

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The cover of ‘Clancarty: The high times and humble origins of a noble Irish family’ by Rod Smith … to be launched in London next month Pat...
27 May 2023

Morning prayers in Easter
with USPG: (49) 27 May 2023

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The Ascension depicted in a window in the north transept in Cathedral of the Assumption, Tuam, Co Galway (Photograph: Patrick Comerford) P...
23 February 2022

The old courthouse in
Kinvara has a connection
with the arts since the 1860s

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The old courthouse in Kinvara, Co Galway … standing for two centuries and now an arts centre (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2022) Patrick...
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22 February 2022

The romantic ruins of
Muckinish Castle in the Burren,
overlooking Galway Bay

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Shanmuckinish Castle, or Muckinish Castle, is a ruined tower house in Drumcreehy, Co Clare, not far from the churchyard with Henry Comerford...
14 February 2022

A curious Comerford link
with colonial administration
on the island of St Lucia

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The island of St Lucia in the Caribbean … Henry Hegart Breen, who was Governor, was an uncle of Isaac Breen Daly who married Henrietta Comer...
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08 February 2022

In search of a family mausoleum
and finding John Betjeman
cycling with Emily in the Burren

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Ballyvaughan, the Burren and Galway Bay spread out below Corkscrew Hill in north Clare (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2022) Patrick Comer...
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07 February 2022

Finding a Comerford
family mausoleum in
the Burren in Co Clare

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The mausoleum of Henry Comerford in Drumcreehy Churchyard at Bishop’s Quarter, near Ballyvaughan, Co Clare (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2...