Wednesday, March 16, 2016

IRELAND



And all around me the land of the Gael
The world’s garden, the world’s garland,

2 comments:

  1. The landscape shown is in fact Irish.

    An interesting post can be found at the following URL:

    http://crystalpoints.tumblr.com/post/40872866297/when-people-assume-celtic-irish-i-get-a-strong

    Modern-day England is blanked out on the map. But the Britannia (mostly now England) that the Romans conquered was Celtic, and remained so until the Anglo-Saxons drove the Celts out.

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  2. I have just discovered a series of clips of spirited Celtic music, under the title Celtic Woman, at this URL:http://aomsoulfood.blogspot.com/2016/09/musical-performance-teir-abhaile-riu-by.html. Scroll down to the link to start the first one (they are on YouTube), and the others will follow.

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