Wednesday, 9 September 2009

MCSWEENEY CASTLES IN IRELAND.

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(DOE CASTLE) (The following was taken from 'The Mac Sweeneys' by Fr. David OFM Cap). MOROSS CASTLE IN FANAD It is generally accepte...
Friday, 28 August 2009

A History Of The Hebrides - The Norse Occupation

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Men from the North. It may be safely assumed from the known character of the pagan Northmen that they made short work of the re...
Sunday, 16 August 2009

A HISTORY OF CASTLE SWEEN.

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CASTLE SWEEN: ITS STORY On the east side of Loch Sween, this castle guards the mouth of the Loch, looking past nearby islands and down the S...
Thursday, 28 May 2009

TRYST OF A FLEET

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The second of two medieval poems, (both) originally composed in Gaelic, celebrating the attempt by John MacSween, to retake Castle Sween, in...
Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Tales of the Tinker No.7. The Lords of Fanad, and how they came to be inaugurated at Kilmacrennan.

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O'Donovan and his colleague were almost at the end of Market Street, roughly twenty five yards from where the cobblestones ended and the...
Wednesday, 6 May 2009

"The Assembled Fleet" By 'Blind' Arthur McGurkich

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The assembled fleet at Castle Sween, Pleasant tidings in Innisfail Of all the riders of the waves, A finer ship no man e'er owned. Tall ...
Thursday, 26 March 2009

Tales of the Tinker No.6. The story of Tirlogh 'Caoch' and the House of MacSweeney Fanad.

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An Ocean as vast as the Atlantic has many different characteristics and weather patterns to behold. On one day it could be fine and breezy, ...