Ireland: The Road Taken With Tommy Makem-part 1

I'm up atop Kalani Hill done behind me Dublin Bay and across the bay the fair city of Dublin the capital of Ireland. We're not going to begin our journey in the modern city of Dublin but rather we're going to go back to ancient Ireland and see some wonderful sights. Talk to some of the people here to great music. Come with me as we start our journey at Newgrange in county me's the oldest manmade building in the world the soul of 5000 years old.

TOMMY MAY comes Ireland is made possible in part by the International Fund for Ireland the Irish Tourist Board and the Northern Ireland tourist board. Shimmering emerald by piercing the blue sweep overlooking West watered the green of the beacon of siren a rock of time Russians urged on by the three great wave leaving the rural and tall line

for line for Heroes a diagnosis cauldron of light. But this whole this area turned many splintered off. We're we're above the village of Slane and Conti me down below the famed river buoying flows. We cross over the bridge and if you're crossing over the ridge if you looked up to your left you would see Slane Castle up amongst the trees. We'll continue on up the road and up at the top of the hill take a right hand bend in the road on your right into the middle of the village of Slane at the crossroads and slaine

there are four houses built by a local mountain they say for four daughters that he had he had the meekly built all look in exactly the same so that no daughter would feel slighted and think she was less better thought off than her sister up at the top of the hill is the hill of Slane where sympatric is reputed to have lived as Pasco fire before the High King Lear I had lit his fire on Tara about ten or twelve miles to the southwest. Saint Patrick was arrested and brought before layer of Tara. And they say he converted King Lear to Christianity there. We will take the road to the right and it will take us to Newgrange or Bruno boy and one of the great wonders of Ireland Newgrange is the oldest manmade building in the world. It's older than the pyramids of Egypt and it will be a thousand to fifteen hundred years older than Stone had just truly one of the wonders of the world.

So come on we'll take a look up here a magnificent Bruno boy in this magnificent place and here with us today also is there a toughie who's the director of all of this magnificence Claire. Could you give us a bit of information about Newgrange and Ukraine has spent about 5000 years ago and still in its complex of this area within about a third of a Boeing. The other two big ones and this one has been open to the public for a long time so it's probably the best you know it's been open since 6:00 this was axed. Professor Kelly in the 1960s and 70s I was during those excavation stuff with probably the best known which is the roof the opening over the doorway that was put there

by the stone age people so that the sun was shining to their burial as the sun is rising on the very day when they're going to be able to December 24th with five days of watching for the sun from the morning of the 19th of December to the morning of the 20th which is just as well because we don't have sunshine every day during the winter solstice the sun's rays enter through the roof above the entrance travels through the sixty two feet long narrow the Lumina 8 the chamber for 90 minutes. There are 3 side chambers of the central chamber giving the tomb a crucial form. There's a stage in the passage and there's a richly decorated spiral carving sags. There is a double stone basin on the floor in the eastern chamber

and one each of the other side chambers it was presumed that these were used for rituals. The chamber has a magnificent Colbert reaching to a height 20 feet above the floor. The roof was designed with a tunnel cut into the stone slabs This allows for the water filtering through to be drained off leaving the interior chamber dried. The old circle or mound is thirty six feet high and 300 feet in diameter. The base of the mound is retained by 97 large stone. As many of them decorated and lying horizontally the most famous of the ews is the ng from St.. It is regarded as the finest example of megalithic aught in the world. The triple spiral decoration has become the symbol of new age. We don't know the meaning of the symbols but we can

only imagine it had a very deep religious or magical significance for the people. And you can imagine the people gathered around this area looking at this wondrous wondrous piece of an interesting thing is they actually crossed the stone before they went into the chamber. Mia So this is the threshold between the two War of the worlds of the living and the world. This is from the mythology that perhaps the spirits of the dead lived in these places and perhaps their ancestors were so the accessible to them. It's part of the promise of these monuments Not only that things remain. They've built them in stone and they're still with another stone. There's also that part of nature cycle is that nothing ends with this morning like The Shining

passage where he born his mission. Still and on here I stand beside the end from St.. With older years of DR-DOS nearly done. I feel the voices singing in my book the ancient posts. So you found a like mine. They say that in all of my going to think art there are only nine stone and

six hundred of those kind of stones I found here in the Broome born about a million west of New graves the great moment of money was raised around 3000 to twenty five hundred B.C. this monk is 40 feet high and two hundred and twenty feet in diameter. Two great passage tombs were discovered here in the late 1960s like new great graves. Richly decorated with megalithic. She's going to hell and Mary were standing in front of one of the carved stones here and it divides the passageway from the burial area traditionally in the Stone Age. The bodies were cremated usually cremated outside the belongings the bones the ashes the pottery the belongings of the people were placed safely in behind this. So still this particular stone and of course burial would have been just one of the functions of a slice like this

do have any idea what kind of ceremonies would have gone on here. Well there are a variety of interpretations and ideas but ceremonies and rituals possibly associations with the economics the spring and autumnal equinox. You can imagine the rituals and ceremonies associated with the planting and the harvesting. Yeah. To a foreign essential to a farming community and the people who lived in Buena bowing it in the neolithic where the first settled farming community one of the first settled farming communities in the country. Excavation since 1962 have only covered seventeen satellites to using all the ritual features dotting the bases during the 1010 centuries was the seat of the kings of Northern Reagan and at the end of the twelfth century the Normans used them as a marked the third passage to the Boyne Valley is a dove like no also contains two passage graves.

It has yet to be excavated. This is the royal hill of Tire and Conti means a place of great importance to the people of Ireland. This is where the high kings of Ireland ruled for many centuries and has been populated since about twenty five twenty six hundred BCE down through Christian times in the year 918 b c all of them became the king. Hebrew here for 40 years his crowning glory is His establishment of the nation's great try any old Parliament of the chiefs nobles bogs and scholars who decided upon all of the laws that govern the country. It was from the laws that the Brehon Laws took form. The late the Honorable John McCormick the learned speaker of the house in the American House of Representatives told me that the Magna Carta was based on the Brehon Laws. And he went on to say that since the Constitution of the United States is based on the Magna Carta we can thank those wise men who gathered here at the Hill of Tara. All of those

thousands of years ago their deliberations and thinking still influence the United States today. One of the more prominent features of Tyrus Hill is the mound of hostages head guy John Clarke tells us about some of the exciting discoveries made here. You had the largest numbers of remains ever found in any tomb in the country. And from the Neolithic stone age period there remains of went over 100 people perhaps up to 150 or so. Or their remains were found inside in the tomb. Let's leave you a huge compared to Newgrange the one of the three great moans that are in the country. They only found the remains of five or six and your grandchild. Yes and other tombs in the locality in the Boyne Valley area where the phone to the remains of 50 or 60 and some of them were to get the remains of one hundred fifty and Tara is quite spectacular and of course there wasn't just the remains there was all of the typical grave goods the polished stone B and pendants and pins the

other fabulous thing about them out of the House of course is that five to six hundred years after it was built. Bronze Age people were used as they were perhaps showing their knowledge of it and thereby showing how the and different groups in Ireland carried stone the traditions of the area or the people who lived in the country and by using it they were showing respect for as well. When the tooth it down and that magical mystical tribe who were the followers of a god has done I came here to learn about fourteen hundred B.C. they brought with them from the other world which was where they were from. They brought four gifts. One was the invincible sort of blue of the Long Hand. One was a magical spear. One was the cauldron off the dock no more. The Cauldron off the dock no more could feed an army of men and women and still remain full of food on the fourth gift they brought was really a foil.

This is a replica of the LIA following the story of destiny. The high kings of Ireland were Kratom foiled according to legend as the Kings were being crowned the storm would rule if it was the rightful king. The origin of stone of destiny stayed at The Hill of Tara for centuries until the sixth century A.D. when the High King of Ireland King Mike Erika loaned the St. Louis his brother Fergus who was being crowned the king of Scotland. Fergus took the stone Malea Foyle to Scotland and it stayed there for many many many many years. It Benchley became known as the Stone of Scone Ahmed was removed to England and twelve ninety seven by Edward the First the leader Foyle is now located in Westminster Abbey in London and as a Coronation St. for the kings and queens of England. A few short miles from Tara are the ruins of Ireland's first Cistercian Abbey.

This is Mellifont Abbey in County Louth. It was built in 11:42 by St Maliki who was the Archbishop of. As a young monk Malik went off to France and he visited the Abbey and there where his good friend St. Bernard was the Abbot said Maliki came back and selected this site on the banks of the madhouse for his monastery the monastery chapel was dedicated in 11:57 and the monastery was suppressed in 59 39. Amongst all the wonderful buildings here perhaps the most beautiful was the ark. Unfortunately only four sides of it remain but it's still a beautiful beautiful building. The two storey Lavabo originally contained a fountain in which the monks washed their hands before going to eat in the refectory nearby. Today only fragments of the original grand plan survive on the eastern side of the Romanesque cloister stands the fine vaulted chapter house which was built in the 14th century.

A short distance from here is another early more Gnostic site celebrated for its high crosses. When Mr. Boyce and contains two of the finest high crosses him are probably from the ninth century. Mike Ross is one of the most famous problems of early Irish monasteries crosses the East and West faces vocationally the sides are decorated with panels bearing figures from the Bible. These faces usually illustrate scenes from the Old Testament as well as the Book of Revelation.

West face is usually reserved for New Testament events. Crucifixion generally occupies the center of the west face encircled by a ring. The scenes were carefully chosen to Moredock scrolls illustrates the concept of the kingship of Christ. The toll crosses the high standard at 21 feet. It also is richly decorated with 22 scenes can be identified. At the foot of the majestic Cooley mountains lies the ancient fishing town of Carling Fort reputedly the oldest town in Ireland. Viking Raiders give the lockets named Carlene fiord lifelong resident Joel McKevitt explains why the harbor is significant Carringford was a haven as the Danes came here. Yes the Vikings Yes they came here and then the norm is going after them weapons. When both were powered by sea it caring for it was a

very busy port because it's the only port on the east coast north of old that the boats could remain in the war shattered Hokus and double on the horn Yes that's right and this was not a deep water port of call. Oh no it was table yesterday but it was very gentle when they didn't hear about it. The 13th century castle rules that dominate the town is known as King John's castle. This is the total sea. An old gate tower in which the village leaders used to meet the arts that supports the building was part of the tunnel wall and during the eighteenth century it served as a jail just a few yards down the narrow Tolson Street is the mint. A 15th century tower house with an extended tour of the door. The Mint is remarkable of mullioned windows which are decorated with three Norman carved Celtic motifs including a horse and a human head

south of the town lies the Dominican Priory dedicated to Saint Maliki and said to have been founded in 13 0 5 by the erle of St. Richard Dubourg excavations in the primaries past continues with lovely old pubs and good restaurants. The village is alive. Conversation and music. If we traveled north and west as the eternal crows fly into wild story past Slieve Gullion Ireland's most mystical mountain over the few was foremost in the story where King Lear reputedly had his palace we'd come to my hometown behind me is the town of Katy where I was born and raised. It's a small market town that is deeply rooted and I refocus on music. Archbishop Donnelly who was known as the bard of Hamas was once the party

he was not allowed to say during pain of times and the way he gathered a congregation was he would go down disguised as a bard with a harp and singing and playing music. When he got a crowd of people around then he would say his mass. Archbishop Donnelly was the party here for a number of years and so the town is deeply involved with the bardo. It became famous because it influenced one of the greatest American voice on radio. Originally it was called the bard of deep blue. Here Kitty was once noted as a center for the linen trade. I suppose in many ways I am deeply indebted to this town for what it gave to me and I always come back to it because the attachment so the people are friendly welcoming is always a cheering organ the warm greeting for you here in Cuba.

Once a noted center of learning and religion the city of our mind has roots very deeply planted in the cultural identity of Ireland. Indeed Rome Barcelona and we're known as the three great cultural centers of Europe are seen there must teeter the medievalist scholars said. And I called you to the ASCO capital of Ireland it was a time in the metropolis of civilization unquote. The ancient city Obama was founded by Queen mark by many centuries B.C. It was from remark about how a mob took her name. Marcus started the first hospital later on. St. Patrick came here and established this process. Church is not of the primates will see from the Roman Catholic Church on the Anglican Church here in Ireland but St. Patrick first came he said it as a

model I love my sweet soul my sweet dream chastity of St. Patrick's Church of Harlem cathedral and shared some of his deep knowledge of that site where you're standing as you realize one of the most ancient Christian sites not only in Ireland but in the British Isles because according to tradition Patrick founded this site in the year four hundred forty five. So we're on very how to cry and indeed now of course there's nothing left of the or traces of the earliest buildings here. We know that with the coming of the day in this in the early ninth century the building was destroyed on several occasion but it was eventually restored by expressible Scammell in 12 68. So that this building or parts of this building we can trace back to the 13th century restoration and I believe Brian Boru the king of. And visited here in 10 0 4 kneeling at the

altar here he was allowed to hold the book of Hama which is Internet ecology and I thought I already have the book of which was written here in the group about the year eight hundred and six and it's one of the instruments which make up a given that the primary fourth data. Yes that's true and he offered gifts here and reconfirmed the primate. And of course he was buried here then on a hilltop across from the old cathedral is sympatric Roman Catholic cathedral. We go once in Patrick's Day in 1840 the cathedral was the work of two architects. First Thomas duff of Newry then the famous New York Gothic architect J.J. McCarthy who took over after Doc's death construction stopped during the Great Famine of 1847 and for years afterwards the building work was completed in 1873. Visitors impressed by the exterior of the building were often disappointed upon entering to find a

dull and decorated soul. Cardinal Law set forth and lavishly decorated the interior of the stained glass windows are rich in detail and splendid in color finished in 19 old for the cathedral remains essentially the same today with the exception of a few modern features installed recently. In the center of the town lies the white park known as the mouth which is lined with elegant Georgian houses. As you walk the winding streets of a very modern you feel in your bones and your soul. She was walking on.

This is where the High Kings have also ruled for over a thousand years. It's also the site for the great cycle of Ulster that featured on the red bride's night veered off the sorrows of the sons of course not but two or three hundred years ago on this site I've locked in the shade. It was a bronze age. This is a replica of the original hangs in the National Museum and this goes to prove that music has been around these hills and the U.S. was in the year olds for thousands and thousands of years. And music is still being made here at some of my good friends they are still making music here. Let's hope

the old white feathers in this breed. That's

normal. The more unifying lovely towns and villages old with the old stories and legends here especially France a song writer saying where the mountains of Mormons we went down to the sea you find shepherds farmers fisherfolk all kinds of warm welcoming people great songs and great stories especially of the sea and its legends in

the capital of the kingdom. They will tell you that Cleo no rurally and talk with three great waves that circle Ireland meet their their comings and goings leaving an abundance of plankton that attracts the herring in vast numbers. No wonder the boast of having the largest fishing fleet in Ireland. Newcastle lies at the west end of Dun from sitting up a foot of Slieve Donard the highest peak in the eighteenth century. This coast was a popular landing site for smugglers. Nowadays Newcastle is a busy seaside resort the well-known hospitality can very often end up with a musical gathering. Might want to eat fish although you're right. You're

seeing a goal. OK we hit the old boy. What the modern city of Belfast is Beautiful be situated in a district of mountain

river. The name Belfast comes from the Irish button fetish which means the month of the Sunday for the development of industries like rule making shipbuilding and linen double the size of the tome our guide to Belfast is singer broadcaster Jean Kasem then an opera The star was at one time as it had no bearing on the fact that in a major world leader and and then. Center in the world would have been towards the end of the 19th century. First of trading the export of farm produce and all the products of the city made and then the shipbuilding began to develop over again one of the biggest centers and the British ship building in the world. Yes they had a very deep water port which is quite significant why they were able to make a huge

ship like new psionic and the Titanic. It's a very young people that have the impression because of our history that it's an ancient place but it really is a very young and I think still in a state of flux and has a lot of development that fast has always been a progressive city in 1737 production began dating people that still exist with the original. Last newsletter it was the first paper in Europe to carry the text of the Declaration of Independence to the United States chief executive officer John Barnes explains. The story goes that the ship carrying the text came in to land at London that day and the document came across Northern Ireland and was printed as the main front page article here in full in an issue dated August the

23rd 1776 and had taken something over 50 days to get from the signing ceremony in Philadelphia located seven miles outside of Belfast as the Ulster folk and Transportation Museum this open air museum is devoted to the preservation of Ulster social history reconstructed buildings brought here from around the region. David Lee brings Northern Ireland's past to life Belfast as a precedent for saving significant parts of Irish culture. In July of 1790 to a group of business men calling themselves the Belfast society invited what remained of the old itinerant Harpers and bards to a festival in order to revive and perpetuate the ancient music and poetry of Ireland unquote. They hired Edward Bunting to notate and publish the music please Harpers played Bunting catalogued hundreds of pieces of music and saved for posterity a significant part of Ireland's heritage.

This vast collection of ancient Irish music might otherwise have been lost forever young Harpers like Janet Harbison and Michael Rooney who are members of the Belfast harp orchestra. Still glory in playing that wonderful music today. The answer I'm close to is on though to be one of the most beautifully picturesque drives in

our with the North cello on our lights on our left on the beautiful blabs about 30 names of music of ten or twelve miles up to see is the model from tire in Skull and Bones. Emigrate to Scotland on his way for the glare of the sea you composed a song about what he'd be leaving behind his soul affect him so much that he turned around and went back to his beloved land. Myself I'd climb the heights of corn where the mountains stand away so I would let the sun news going cuckoo for them I would rather hold back the twisted years in the bitter wasted wind with the God of love would let her live with us.

And this is the Giant's Causeway up on the north coast and from some people call it the eighth wonder of the world it was formed some 60 million years ago when molten lava erupted up through the earth's crust and formed all of these polygonal columns at least that's what the geologists will tell you if you talk to the natives here about they would tell you a completely different story they say it was formed by Finn McCool who was building stepping stone so he wouldn't witness Pete on his way over to visit a brother giant in Scotland I think I would rather stick with the natives if you know what I mean. Beyond the restless stages of the tectonic plates and trunks crossed is said to be on the fracture lines that until

we settle down hard when the lava spill fulfilled our last assertion at a place east of don't loose the water can talk to to its touch assists with these mountain 100000 sacred stone appearing out of the spasm appearing out of the hollow. They face trial or deal like she probably did on the show they face the horizon in their heads. I can only judge you want to ignore all this. No title there ahead century by century the sacred things of will for tend to their judgment the sacred fire dramatically situated autopsy watched clips of the ruins of don't loose Castle

this 14th century monument was once a stronghold of and from chiefdoms during the 16th century the invincible Mike Donnel clan chiefs enlarge the castle. Perhaps they expanded the castle a little too much for them sixteen thirty nine The kitchens and the cooks plummeted into the sea. The Second City of Northern Ireland very set on a hill along the banks of the river before it strategically located close to the open sea. Dirty came on thousands of years your telling of dirty a sort of goodbye the best preserved totem walls in the United Kingdom. You can still walk along the great 17th century wall about a million feet. Still several Sieges Even today they remain unbroken and complete with old cannons pointing their noses over the old

friend Paddy Doherty one of dirties most famous and well-loved citizens explains about the cameras these cameras were sent over by Elizabeth the force to the fan base in their courses we import to remember that this city with been colonized in America within colonies. Philadelphia we've been both in past with the same time but it's expansion and when Elizabeth actually sent the cannons over three were told this morning that it's a fable that you could fire one count of the cannon right after it has been shot by the way 15 minutes before you the fire began. Apparently that's why you have a hold on account of the role you started that one file and the time to get to the fire and this one ready for firing again. The infamous siege of six. 88 after the followers of William the Third closed the gates of the city against the followers of James the second one hundred and five terrible days passed before the ship

carrying supplies broke through. Very remained inviolate and so earned the nickname the maiden city. Fact the way the siege of Derry and the city itself never never failed to receive a last one you mention but the most heroic and the most famous of the seeds we had the city was severely damaged during the bombing campaign of the 70s and 80s about one of every three buildings were destroyed. Almost all of them in reply totally threw the cities back to his former glory the finest and most beautiful city in the whole of Ireland. Hey you go party spokesman I get sued dirty man and the Guildhall of course across the way here. It was a barely Damas the magnificent building that was almost totally destroyed when it was destroyed twice in his life. There was a fire but then the steward and then again and the early 70s the bombing campaign virtually way could I but it was put together again at a cost of about 1 2.8 million per

quarter million plan to put back in. Last one though so I mean major major job well there was a vision of bringing the city back from the glory. It was a feeling of course but I need to hear the will of Allah that he should be removed but I disagreed with that. It's part of our history and I felt it was what it was having. This city has been under siege in recent years but had again has risen like a phoenix from the ashes commanding magnificent views of law falling on one side and blocks surely on the other. The brilliant enough completely dominates the initial impetus of the negro constructed without more fairly imposing circular stone for 17 feet high and seventy six feet. In diameter the wall which is 13 feet in thickness of the base

is terraced on the inside with steps leading up to the three terraces inside the wall the right to passage to my old friend Roy Arbuckle wants to share a few things about agreeing with us. Well we're told in a way minutes ago lost in the seventh I couldn't but it's estimated that yes that is around 70 people under 200 B.C. makes it nearly 4000 years will make it a really great ritual in Europe but what the pope the suggestion there is that the Associated with the down in Baghdad was accumulated then and that it had great everything that these places were used you know to celebrate the passage of the year. Celtic festivals especially and there are quite a bit of the weld weld Pretium think Oh exactly and so it would have been and the name suggests the Green Zone and they are green on the song but this is a place or that temple

would make this it's a very mystical place where you can almost hear it on the wind. The words of the end of the time as a whole would be just the days of Ali. A bustling town center of Letterkenny is just a single long street lined with an array of small shops and pubs dominated by an imposing 19th century church. Donegal is astonishing. Every few miles the scenery completely changes. One minute silvery strands the next rugged rocky shores and the next Heather and the bracken Platte mountains its famous Tweed takes its lovely colors from the ever changing heather moon and is pleasantly situated on the little river. Owen told her near the eastern shore of Loch from smore Bay for centuries had been an important trading

center that once held monthly cloth fares a little the cloth fares have died out. Cottage workers in the surrounding countryside still provide with high quality homespun tweeds on hand it's the old song says it well if it wasn't for that we were as what would you do. You wouldn't have the twelth that's made out of wood and wouldn't have a coat of black or blue wasn't for the work. The pungent unique smell of the tour for Pete fire wraps itself around Ireland like a cloak. Peat is vegetation fermented through many thousands of years before it becomes cool. It has been Ireland's fuel since our ancestors discovered its value and harvested it in much the same way as to sculpt and save today its

thriving fishing port of Killybegs lies on the south coast of the Donegal Peninsula Killybegs is noted for sail making and not with carpets and most of all its fishing fleet. This is the grave of William Butler Yeats Ireland's major port. He died in France in 1939 and of his own request his body was brought home to be interrogated in part yard in counties like where his grandfather had been wrecked on the fare gates was not like one himself but started coming here as a boy with his parents who are both. So I go on Ian's like nobody wrote a number of like or like I make I look and this is great and you can read for yourself. Country

mail is home to the unique running tar starter than most examples. It has a round head a doorway and flats and Gable headed when the church decided was built in the 18th century. The first church here was founded by St. Patrick. Beneath the bogs of Norsemen are the cage of a uniquely preserved part of landscape houses from 5000 years ago. The old chief archaeologist here shared important information with us about the cage of feeds.

It's true that there's no comparisons to it outside of outside of Ireland. The earliest London poll is going on in your backyard how there were not the first I've heard from this I log on has happened there for some reason as the papers have the past not the line that they're divided up into sections. Sort of akin to a pair of animals and crops if we could just take it back if a few years after it back to Aspen I'd be on the center four years ago how those of the story Doctor would probably give you on the knowledge that was available at the time you'd have a forest of environment and that and caring in the forest house on a seal feigns around the house for paperwork and no sales and if you went on in the car and the idea was the proper word you was up that smallest past in the

land until decided to move on in the fall as the one other little pairing that set up a new house. Now this is great. This carrier story where you have this continuous honest five how long filing along the Interpretive Center at the cage of feeders houses except it's explaining what life for knowing cage it must be like from the year 3000 B.C. to the present. Across from the cage it feeds the cage at the top of the cliff faces three hundred sixty five feet high from here your kind of mire done Patrick head according to folklore. This sea stack was severed by St. Patrick from the headland the attractive town of Westport is situated on an IM a little too base for the heyday of the great ways Westport was an important importing and exporting center

the river was made into a canal and bridges and keys were built during the eighteenth century West Cork. There's no a thriving fishing center the main attraction on the quay is Westport home one of the finest mansions in Ireland but was completed in 17 88 by architect James Wyatt of the Marcus of Slike. On the shores of about three miles from Port the Berg family built a castle in the 16th century. Today it is known as Rock Castle one of the barks of the great old pirate queen. Grace kept a fleet of ships here include Bay on the coast so secluded protected that no one could get near them. So it was very good for her fleet of ships. She plucked her way not only in the history of what into the hearts of the Irish people is about the force of great respect for Grace O'Malley

Grace went to visit art one point stomped into the room dressed not in the garb of the Royal Court but in are tired of the soldiers on all of them from the queen. I'm sad I'm Grace O'Malley Lizabeth apart said you did not bow or genuflect to me when you came into the room and Grace O'Malley answered. I bow to no one. The wonderful why you are on your way to Grace O'Malley the Pirate Queen. Rising twenty five hundred feet above the south shore of clu Bay is Ireland's Holy Mountain Lodge a place of pilgrimage. It all goes back to the year of 441 when St. Patrick fasted and prayed for 40 days atop the mountain on the last Sunday in July a locally called Garland Sunday pilgrims come from all over the country to climb the mountain and pray. Many of the pilgrims climb the mountain barefoot. It is a very tough climb even wearing shoes but climbing over the small stones and

Quartzsite rubble and bare feet severe penance. The region's most impressive and unspoiled scenery lies in the valley between the Shi free we remounted the village of Qana lies on the isthmus between La Masque and Lockhart of the north the old way of being near the boundary between the countries of mail and at the entrance to the village of the ruins of Kong. Back in the sixth century in fact when I built a monastery here in beautiful Kong in County Mayo this abbey was built some years later 11:47 by King Tarlac OConnor it was destroyed in trouble and very shortly afterwards it was restored again has been restored Of course many times since.

Today a little of the church remains the best features of which was erected in the 12th twenties and has since been reconstructed some of the capitals on the coast. Car going one can't sense the chapter house contains some fine Windows the decorative stone work is exquisite. I'm probably the finest work of its type in the west of Ireland Connemara is the name given to the western part of County Galway which lies between low carb and the Atlantic Ocean. It's more land is dominated by the mom took mountains and the 12 bends rains to the north. Here the scenery is splendid with the mountains reflected in the dark waters of many of the locks in the valleys below and the coastline of alternating rocky cliffs and Sandy Bay News. It's thriving market town of Clifton on the northern end of the bay is the capital of quantum hour the

caramel Valley is beautiful and even more glorious when the fuchsia and the rhododendron are in bloom this fantastic tart of the grey stone building is more originally built as a private home today it has a company of Benedictine nuns. We're going to go to a boarding school here this is a lovely peaceful place to stop. It's like the rest of our joining around Ireland. I'm looking forward to joining you in our next show. Tommy Ireland is available on home video from shops. Both the DVD and VHS contain the entire two hour program of Tommy's travels through the emerald aisle. To order call 1 800 9 5 0 9 6 4 8. Or visit us online at w w w shop w m h t dot o r g. TOMMY

MAY comes Ireland is made possible in part by the International Fund for Ireland the Irish Tourist Board and the Northern Ireland tourist board. Continuing our journey through Ireland on our next. Right. We go dancing in County Clare visit Skellig Michael a monastic settlement on a 700 feet high rock eight miles off the coast of County Kerry

one of the most mystical places I have ever been in my life. We'll visit with Sheila Lindsay future medium dose and author of a thoroughly delightful person we'll call in with our friends and caulk view the magnificent postcode gardens in County Wicklow savor the delights of Dublin and many other interesting places we know we will enjoy. We'll be looking for you.