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Showing posts with label Road Trip 2020. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Road Trip 2020. Show all posts
04 March 2021

It’s a year since I have
been outside Ireland, but
I hope to travel again soon

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Old shopfronts on Princelet Street, off Brick Lane in the East End of London, seen on 4 March 2020 (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2020) ...
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31 December 2020

From Valencia to Valentia,
in a year of lockdowns,
road trips and lost plans

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The Irish Times calendar confused the important holidays at the end of 2020 … was this a sign of the times? (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)...
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18 November 2020

A deserted castle by
the River Suir and
tales of a war-like clan

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Ballynore Castle, also known as Dove Hill or Duffhill Castle, between Carrick-on-Suir and Clonmel, Co Tipperary (Photograph: Patrick Comerf...
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13 November 2020

Doneraile Church, part of
the steeplechase legend,
has a tower but no steeple

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Saint Mary’s Church, Doneraile, Co Cork … first built in 1633 and rebuilt many times since (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2020) Patrick ...
12 November 2020

Five sculptures that
celebrate how hurling is
both a sport and an art

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Sculptures and statues in Wexford, Kilkenny and Limerick celebrate the truth that hurling is both a sport and an art (Photograph: Patrick Co...
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31 October 2020

Canon Charles Bunworth,
Rector of Buttevant, harpist
and patron of Irish harpists

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A plaque in Buttevant, Co Cork, commemorates Canon Charles Bunworth and the Bunworth Harp (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2020) Patrick ...
24 October 2020

A missed opportunity to
visit Selskar Abbey, ‘almost
at the end of the world’

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The ruins of Selskar Abbey, described in the 1355 as ‘by Wexford, which is almost at the end of the world in Ireland’ (Photograph: Patrick ...
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03 October 2020

Town planning, bridges
and pretty cottages on
the streets of Kenmare

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The pretty terrace of colourful Victorian cottages at Emmet Place in Kenmare, Co Kerry (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2020; click on image...
26 September 2020

Liscarroll Castle, now in
ruins but once the third
largest castle in Ireland

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Liscarroll Castle towers above the village of Liscarroll in north Co Cork (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2020) Patrick Comerford I h...
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Names and people come
to life in the shopfronts and
on the streets of Cappoquin

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The entrance to Cappoquin House looking out on the shopfronts of Main Street at the junction with Green Street (Photograph: Patrick Comerfo...