Ireland 2009-Ectra mna na Finnliata

samain2009

2009-10-22T11:05:00.000-07:00

As we pass into the final quarter of the year 2009 and recall the ancient understanding and meaning of mans life on earth and his relationship with the Almighty it is well to try and honor the old appliction of the feis of Tara in its policy of not only holding pleasurable games, food feis, literary readings and music, but also in learning and teaching .
The feis went on from Nobember 1 and lasted till December 15 th when all the noble tribes of Erinn returned totheir respective provinces and homesteads for the winter months.
Taking with them good feeling, full bellys, satisfied arrangements and contracts and many purchases aquired at these gatherings; including some from merchants from abroad.
Ireland at those days was a propserous and secure nation.
One of the many losses the island has incurred while the rest of the world progressed from slash and burn technology to the advanced agra buisness and nationalism of today, Eire suffered not only the loss of its sovereignty and its people but the almost complete obliteration of its ancinet native Gaelic language sopken and written.
As Irish Gaelige is one of the languages discribed as being a root language equitable with Latin, Greek and Hebrew it is tragic to allthat this language is being forgotten.
Knowledge of it is hard to come by and in the americas which houses some half of the decendants of this old islalnd very little teaching or material is avaialbe to learn or recover any of this speech or written material.
Some try to memorise phrases from English sayings such as the famous
God Bless all here :
Go Mein ne Dia inseo!
which actuallys says
To wish all children God is here!
Not a blessing among these words.
However those of us who do not have photographic memorys or anyone to speak the language to promply forget all these phrases but' parle vous franceis madomoselle'.

The present modern Irish which is begun in 1958 with the governments publication of what it calls the official standard defines the basic rules of tense, pronunciation and so forth and is taught in the Republic schools.
This does not always conform with the language spoken at the Geailteach areas of the country or the words and endings used in the 3 main provinces of speaking ,Ulster, Munster and Connacht.
For some reason the Laigen[Leinste]r is not included in this dialectical difference.
Any language must include a subject, an action and a discription noun verb and adjective and Irish is no diferent from the hundreds of other languages on earth in this respect.
It has a subject noun and it has verbs and it has discriptive ajectives.
This formulates a sentance eventually.
One of the great drawbacks of anyone studying basic irish or gaelic is the old tense structure still in use.
We in the western world are used to present, past and future.
we have no conditional or imrerfect tenses in our everyday heads, and no mood tenses.
Our moods are not noted in our speech.
This is quite easy for us to conjugated most verbs.
The romance languages have systemitized their pronoun structure added to the ending of words making only one list fo all words and verbs.
Irish has not done this and hence when we see an irish word and think we have learned that word the ending changes in the next usages and confuses us.
The root is there but added onto it is some hodgepogde of other stuff not familiar and not understood.
Irish has 7 tenses in all.
Oye Vey! you say
Well not that bad.
There is the present tense
the past tense
the future tense and
the imperfect tense
that makes 4.
Than there are 3 moods
the conditional mood
the imperfect mood and
the subjective mood.
So not bad just a lot to learn all at once.
If you are a baby you just sbsorb them long before you go to school.
If not from english speaking {and that unintelliagel to all outside the country} or from our new communicator from afar, the tv set.
Standard irish is spoken and channel 4 and Gaelteach radio not always understood bythe gaelteach people.
However it is the official standard.
Based on the most usually spoken word through the island and the early modrn irish form used from 1200Ad till 1700Ad
After the english conquests in the 1600, the written language was basically lost and the nobility was defeated and either left the country or was absorbed into the peasant population who could neither read nor write and never were taught that until the Rising in 1916.
There speech was remembred however and is incorporated with its usual slang into the official standard model.

The verbal pronouns used nowadays are as follows:
aim=I
ann=you
ann se/si= he /she
aimid= we
ann sibh= you [pl]
annsaid= they
in the past tense:
me=I
tu=you
se=he
si=she
amar, amair, muid= we
sib, abhair= you [pl]
said= they
future:
faidh me= I shall
faidh tu= you will
fiadh se=he will
faidh si=she will
faimid-we shall
faidh sibh= you will
faidh said= they will
* In Ulster the ending chaid or chad is used instead of fiadh 'ch' being pronounced as a Q or K hard c
the imperfect tense:

ainn=I used to
ta=you used to
adh se= he used to
adh si=she used to
aimis= we used to
adh sibh= you used to [pl]
aidis= they used to
those are the 4 tenses still used in irish speech.
the suffix endings denoting with regularity the situation of future present past or imperfect .

Now the moods.
The subjuntive mood express a question 'May I'
These verbs are proceeded always by 'go' than the root verb such as bog which means move and the standard pronouns
me, tu, se, si, aimid sibh, said
Thus go bogh me asks may I move
go bogh tu = may you move
the phrase actually says in literal tranlasion to english:
to move I
to move you

but may is a nice word dont you think,so polite and civilized.
to move i is a bit authoritive over may i move.
the conditional mood always attaches a suffix to the word
in the 1st person
fainn=I would
fa= you would
fadh se=he would
fadh si=She would
faimis=we would
fadh sibh=you would [pl]
faidis=they would
This suffix indicates the word is synthetic when it is welded or attached to the end of the root word
the last mood:
the imperfect mood
root word+the suffix making again a synthetic word
bogaim=let me move
bog=let you move
bogadh se= let him move
bodadh si=let her move
bogamis=let us move
bogaid or bogaigi=move [you is understood]
boghaidis=let them move
There are 7 basic suffixs in Irish they are
eadh
iu
eam
eail
i
eacht
These suffix ending atached to a verb word make it a noun .
aAverbal noun.
they all basically mean 'to'

bogadh=to move
deanam=to do
labhairt= to speak
Most of the english words used in irish have the 'eail' added to the end of the root making the 'ed' in english

flashail= flashed
fluideail= fluided

That is enough to learn this quarter so get busy guys.
A history of the language indicates that the latin roman alphabet was adopted by the island irish around 6 century Ad.
Before that no one knows what the cronicles looked like now.
This was called old irish.
This writing and speech lasted till 12 Ad when the French noramn came in and the new script and dialect was styled. Early Modern Irish with french spellings injected into the copy.
Admininstrative, commerce and legal and all walks of society.
With the fall of the Gaelic order in 1607 withthe exodus of the Great ONeill and the confiscation at last by Elizabeth and James I of the ulster lands the language was only left to the laboring classes. The cottiers and rural people who could not read or write inthe main.
This speech was at last desimated by the Great Famine in 1845-50 when over half the population died in their hovels and the rest migrated out fot their native land to american and europe to find food and shelter.
Irish was of no help to them in this persuit.
Any literature that was still in posession of the country people was lost and the nobility of ireland ,now all pub owners and ministers, took no interst in their heritage or their language
which was finally attempted to be saved from complete extintion by the prodistant elite Douglas Hyde and others who formed the Gaelic League in 1893.
The society for the Preservation of the Irish Language 1876[the year of my grandmothers birth] and the Uslter Gaelic Society 1830.
The Rising of 1916 bought some help for the dying sounds as did the formation of the Free state in 1922.
In 1937 the irish language was enshrined in the new constitution of the Irish Republic as
'the first offical language'
It is however hardly heard in its native land, the railroad doing justice to it on the trains but hardly the ministers or the major news sheets and tv stations.
Or least of all , the mothers ,teaching their babes and these getting the english understood only by themselves alone a real sinn fein bunch of ladies
And so as we pass into this modern Samain , the Samna ,and begin anew the quest for the meaning of life on earth I hope the kinfolk I accost each quarter with the memory of a past in space and time will begin anew to gain knowledge and end this stereotyle that the irish are ingorant and poverty stricken and only st patrick has saved them from eternal damnation.
They have and they will in future save themselves.And that may begin at TARa the god of Thunder according to those old seafarers from Lochlainn laid out onthe mountain tops intheir mighty cairns.
Marsin Beit!

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Samhain
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This article is about the Celtic holiday. For other meanings, see Samhain (disambiguation)
Samhain
Observed by Gaels (Irish people, Scottish people),
Neopagans (Wiccans, Celtic Reconstructionists)
Type Festival of the Dead
Begins Northern Hemisphere=Evening of October 31
Southern Hemisphere=Evening of April 30
Ends Northern Hemisphere: November 1 or November 11
Southern Hemisphere: May 1
Celebrations Traditional first day of winter in Ireland
Related to Hallowe'en, All Saints Day, All Souls Day
Look up samhain in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Samhain (pronounced /ˈsɑːwɪn/, /ˈsaʊ.ɪn/, or /ˈsaʊn/ in English;[1] from Irish samhain [ˈsˠaunʲ], cf. Scottish Gaelic samhainn [ˈsavɯɲ], Old Irish samain [ˈsaṽɨnʲ] "summer's end", from sam "summer" and fuin "end") is a festival held at the end of the harvest season in Gaelic and Brythonic cultures. The festival has aspects of a festival of the dead. Many scholars believe that it was the beginning of the Celtic year.[2][3][4]

The term "Samhain" derives from the name of a month in the ancient Celtic calendar, in particular the first three nights of this month, with the festival marking the end of the summer season and the end of the harvest. The Gaelic festival became associated with the Catholic All Souls' Day, and appears to have influenced the secular customs now connected with Halloween. Samhain is also the name of a modern festival in various currents of Neopaganism that are based on, or inspired by, Gaelic traditions.[3][4][5]

Samhain and an t-Samhain are also the Irish and Scottish Gaelic names of November, respectively.

Contents
1 Etymology
2 History
2.1 Gaelic folklore
2.2 Ancient Ireland
3 Related festivals
3.1 Brittany
3.2 Wales
3.3 Isle of Man
4 Neopaganism
4.1 Celtic Reconstructionism
4.2 Wicca
5 In Pop Culture
6 See also
7 References
8 Further reading
9 External links

[edit] Etymology
The Irish word Samhain is derived from the Old Irish samain, samuin, or samfuin, all referring to 1 November (latha na samna: 'samhain day'), and the festival and royal assembly held on that date in medieval Ireland (oenaig na samna: 'samhain assembly'). Its meaning is glossed as 'summer's end', and the frequent spelling with f suggests analysis by popular etymology as sam ('summer') and fuin ('sunset', 'end'). The Old Irish sam ('summer') is from Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) *semo-; cognates are Welsh haf, Breton hañv, English summer and Old Norse language sumar, all meaning 'summer', and the Sanskrit sáma ("season").[6]

Whitley Stokes in KZ 40:245 (1907) suggests an etymology from Proto-Celtic *samani ('assembly'), cognate to Sanskrit sámana, and the Gothic samana. J. Vendryes in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien (1959) concludes that these words containing *semo- ('summer') are unrelated to samain, remarking that furthermore the Celtic 'end of summer' was in July, not November, as evidenced by Welsh gorffennaf ('July'). We would therefore be dealing with an Insular Celtic word for 'assembly', *samani or *samoni, and a word for 'summer', saminos (derived from *samo-: 'summer') alongside samrad, *samo-roto-. The Irish samain would be etymologically unrelated to 'summer', and derive from 'assembly'. But note that the name of the month is of Proto-Celtic age, cf. Gaulish SAMON[IOS] from the Coligny calendar, and the association with 'summer' by popular etymology may therefore in principle date to even pre-Insular Celtic times.

Confusingly, Gaulish Samonios (October/November lunation) corresponds to GIAMONIOS, the seventh month (the April/May lunation) and the beginning of the summer season. Giamonios, the beginning of the summer season, is clearly related to the word for winter, Proto-Indo-European *g'hei-men- (Latin hiems, Slavic zima, Greek kheimon, Hittite gimmanza), cf. Old Irish gem-adaig ('winter's night'). It appears, therefore, that in Proto-Celtic the first month of the summer season was named 'wintry', and the first month of the winter half-year 'summery', possibly by ellipsis, '[month at the end] of summer/winter', so that samfuin would be a restitution of the original meaning. This interpretation would either invalidate the 'assembly' explanation given above, or push back the time of the re-interpretation by popular etymology to very early times indeed.

Bealtaine, Lúnasa and Samhain are still today the names of the months of May, August and November in the Irish language. Similarly, an Lùnasdal and an t-Samhain are the modern Scottish Gaelic names for August and November.

[edit] History
see also Celtic calendar.
The Gaulish calendar appears to have divided the year into two halves: the 'dark' half, beginning with the month Samonios (the October/November lunation), and the 'light' half, beginning with the month Giamonios (the April/May lunation). The entire year may have been considered as beginning with the 'dark' half, so that the beginning of Samonios may be considered the Celtic New Year's day. The celebration of New Year itself may have taken place during the 'three nights of Samonios' (Gaulish trinux[tion] samo[nii]), the beginning of the lunar cycle which fell nearest to the midpoint between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. The lunations marking the middle of each half-year may also have been marked by specific festivals. The Coligny calendar marks the mid-summer moon (see Lughnasadh), but omits the mid-winter one (see Imbolc). The seasons are not oriented at the solar year, viz. solstice and equinox, so the mid-summer festival would fall considerably later than summer solstice, around 1 August (Lughnasadh). It appears that the calendar was designed to align the lunations with the agricultural cycle of vegetation, and that the exact astronomical position of the Sun at that time was considered less important.

In medieval Ireland, Samhain became the principal festival, celebrated with a great assembly at the royal court in Tara, lasting for three days. After being ritually started on the Hill of Tlachtga, a bonfire was set alight on the Hill of Tara, which served as a beacon, signaling to people gathered atop hills all across Ireland to light their ritual bonfires. The custom has survived to some extent, and recent years have seen a resurgence in participation in the festival.[7]

Samhain was identified in Celtic literature as the beginning of the Celtic year[8] and its description as "Celtic New Year" was popularised in 18th century literature[9] From this usage in the Romanticist Celtic Revival, Samhain is still popularly regarded as the "Celtic New Year" in the contemporary Celtic cultures, both in the Six Celtic Nations and the diaspora. For instance, the contemporary calendars produced by the Celtic League begin and end at Samhain.[10]

[edit] Gaelic folklore
The Samhain celebrations have survived in several guises as a festival dedicated to the harvest and the dead. In Ireland and Scotland, the Féile na Marbh, the 'festival of the dead' took place on Samhain.

The night of Samhain, in Irish, Oíche Shamhna and Scots Gaelic, Oidhche Shamhna, is one of the principal festivals of the Celtic calendar, and falls on the 31st of October. It represents the final harvest. In modern Ireland and Scotland, the name by which Halloween is known in the Gaelic language is still Oíche/Oidhche Shamhna. It is still the custom in some areas to set a place for the dead at the Samhain feast, and to tell tales of the ancestors on that night.[3][4][11]

Traditionally, Samhain was time to take stock of the herds and grain supplies, and decide which animals would need to be slaughtered in order for the people and livestock to survive the winter. This custom is still observed by many who farm and raise livestock [3][4][11] because it is when meat will keep since the freeze has come and also since summer grass is gone and free foraging is no longer possible.

Bonfires played a large part in the festivities celebrated down through the last several centuries, and up through the present day in some rural areas of the Celtic nations and the diaspora. Villagers were said to have cast the bones of the slaughtered cattle upon the flames. In the pre-Christian Gaelic world, cattle were the primary unit of currency and the center of agricultural and pastoral life. Samhain was the traditional time for slaughter, for preparing stores of meat and grain to last through the coming winter. The word 'bonfire', or 'bonefire' is a direct translation of the Gaelic tine cnámh. With the bonfire ablaze, the villagers extinguished all other fires. Each family then solemnly lit its hearth from the common flame, thus bonding the families of the village together. Often two bonfires would be built side by side, and the people would walk between the fires as a ritual of purification. Sometimes the cattle and other livestock would be driven between the fires, as well.[3][4][11]

Divination is a common folkloric practice that has also survived in rural areas. The most common uses were to determine the identity of one's future spouse, the location of one's future home, and how many children a person might have. Seasonal foods such as apples and nuts were often employed in these rituals. Apples were peeled, the peel tossed over the shoulder, and its shape examined to see if it formed the first letter of the future spouse's name. Nuts were roasted on the hearth and their movements interpreted - if the nuts stayed together, so would the couple. Egg whites were dropped in a glass of water, and the shapes foretold the number of future children. Children would also chase crows and divine some of these things from how many birds appeared or the direction the birds flew.[3][4][11][12]

[edit] Ancient Ireland
The Ulster Cycle is peppered with references to Samhain. Many of the adventures and campaigns undertaken by the characters therein begin at the Samhain Night feast. One such tale is Echtra Nerai ('The Adventure of Nera') concerning one Nera from Connacht who undergoes a test of bravery put forth by King Ailill. The prize is the king's own gold-hilted sword. The terms hold that a man must leave the warmth and safety of the hall and pass through the night to a gallows where two prisoners had been hanged the day before, tie a twig around one man's ankle, and return. Others had been thwarted by the demons and spirits that harassed them as they attempted the task, quickly coming back to Ailill's hall in shame. Nera goes on to complete the task and eventually infiltrates the sídhe where he remains trapped until next Samhain. Taking etymology into consideration, it is interesting to note that the word for summer expressed in the Echtra Nerai is samraid.

The other cycles feature Samhain as well. The Cath Maige Tuireadh (Battle of Mag Tuired) takes place on Samhain. The deities Morrígan and Dagda meet and have sex before the battle against the Fomorians; in this way the Morrígan acts as a sovereignty figure and gives the victory to The Dagda's people, the Tuatha Dé Danann.

The tale The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn includes an important scene at Samhain. The young Fionn Mac Cumhail visits Tara where Aillen the Burner, one of the Tuatha Dé Danann, puts everyone to sleep at Samhain and burns the place. Through his ingenuity Fionn is able to stay awake and slays Aillen, and is given his rightful place as head of the fianna.

[edit] Related festivals
Further information: All Saints and Halloween
[edit] Brittany
In parts of western Brittany, Samhain is still heralded by the baking of kornigou, cakes baked in the shape of antlers to commemorate the god of winter shedding his 'cuckold' horns as he returns to his kingdom in the Otherworld. The Romans[who?] identified Samhain with their own feast of the dead, the Lemuria. This, however, was observed in the days leading up to May 13. With Christianization, the festival in November (not the Roman festival in May) became All Hallows' Day on November 1 followed by All Souls' Day, on November 2. Over time, the night of October 31 came to be called All Hallow's Eve, and the remnants festival dedicated to the dead eventually morphed into the secular holiday known as Halloween.

[edit] Wales
Main article: Calan Gaeaf
The Welsh equivalent of this holiday is called Nos Galan Gaeaf (see Calan Gaeaf). As with Samhain, this marks the beginning of the dark half of the year and it officially begins at sunset on the 31st.

[edit] Isle of Man
Main article: Hop-tu-Naa
The Manx celebrate Hop-tu-Naa, which is a celebration of the original New Year's Eve. The term is Manx Gaelic in origin, deriving from Shogh ta’n Oie, meaning "this is the night". Traditionally, children dress as scary beings, carry turnips rather than pumpkins and sing an Anglicized version of Jinnie the Witch. They go from house to house asking for sweets or money.

[edit] Neopaganism
Samhain is observed by various Neopagans in various ways. As forms of Neopaganism can differ widely in both their origins and practices, these representations can vary considerably despite the shared name. Some Neopagans have elaborate rituals to honor the dead, and the deities who are associated with the dead in their particular culture or tradition. Some celebrate in a manner as close as possible to how the Ancient Celts and Living Celtic cultures have maintained the traditions, while others observe the holiday with rituals culled from numerous other unrelated sources, Celtic culture being only one of the sources used.[5][13][14]

[edit] Celtic Reconstructionism
Celtic Reconstructionist Pagans tend to celebrate Samhain on the date of first frost, or when the last of the harvest is in and the ground is dry enough to have a bonfire. Like other Reconstructionist traditions, Celtic Reconstructionists place emphasis on historical accuracy, and base their celebrations and rituals on traditional lore from the living Celtic cultures, as well as research into the older beliefs of the polytheistic Celts. At bonfire rituals, some observe the old tradition of building two bonfires, which celebrants and livestock then walk or dance between as a ritual of purification.[3][4][11][14][15]

According to Celtic lore, Samhain is a time when the boundaries between the world of the living and the world of the dead become thinner, allowing spirits and other supernatural entities to pass between the worlds to socialize with humans. It is the time of the year when ancestors and other departed souls are especially honored. Though Celtic Reconstructionists make offerings to the spirits at all times of the year, Samhain in particular is a time when more elaborate offerings are made to specific ancestors. Often a meal will be prepared of favorite foods of the family's and community's beloved dead, a place set for them at the table, and traditional songs, poetry and dances performed to entertain them. A door or window may be opened to the west and the beloved dead specifically invited to attend. Many leave a candle or other light burning in a western window to guide the dead home. Divination for the coming year is often done, whether in all solemnity or as games for the children. The more mystically inclined may also see this as a time for deeply communing with the deities, especially those whom the lore mentions as being particularly connected with this festival.[3][4][11][14][15]

[edit] Wicca
Main article: Wheel of the Year
Samhain is one of the eight annual festivals, often referred to as 'Sabbats', observed as part of the Wiccan Wheel of the Year. It is considered by most Wiccans to be the most important of the four 'greater Sabbats'. It is generally observed on October 31st in the Northern Hemisphere, starting at sundown. Samhain is considered by some Wiccans as a time to celebrate the lives of those who have passed on, and it often involves paying respect to ancestors, family members, elders of the faith, friends, pets and other loved ones who have died. In some rituals the spirits of the departed are invited to attend the festivities. It is seen as a festival of darkness, which is balanced at the opposite point of the wheel by the spring festival of Beltane, which Wiccans celebrate as a festival of light and fertility.[16]

[edit] In Pop Culture
In the movie Trick 'r Treat, Samhain is the name given to the Spirit of Halloween who goes around enforcing the rules of All Hallow's Eve.

In the TV series Supernatural's 4th season episode "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester", Samhain was also referred to as a Halloween demon. Releasing Samhain breaks one of the mystical 66 seals needed to free Lucifer upon the world.

[edit] See also
Holidays
Beltane
Halloween
Imbolc
Lughnasadh
Calendars
Celtic calendar
Coligny calendar
Irish calendar

Welsh Holidays
[edit] References
^ Random House,[1] OED. The spelling pronunciation /sæmˈheɪn/, while inaccurate, is common in the US media.
^ Chadwick, Nora (1970) The Celts London, Penguin. ISBN 0-14-021211-6 p. 181: "Samhain (1 November) was the beginning of the Celtic year, at which time any barriers between man and the supernatural were lowered".
^ a b c d e f g h Danaher, Kevin (1972) The Year in Ireland: Irish Calendar Customs Dublin, Mercier. ISBN 1-85635-093-2 pp.190-232
^ a b c d e f g h McNeill, F. Marian (1961, 1990) The Silver Bough, Vol. 3. William MacLellan, Glasgow ISBN 0-948474-04-1 pp.11-46
^ a b Hutton, Ronald. The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy. Oxford, Blackwell. pp. 327–341. ISBN 0-631-18946-7.
^ Pokorny, Julius. IEW (1959), s.v. "sem-3", p. 905.
^ Samhain 2007 photos and account of Samhain ritual on the Hill of Tara (and worldwide), Oct. 31, 2007
^ Chadwick, op. cit. pp. 180-181
^ Hutton, Ronald (1996) Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain. Oxford, Oxford University Press ISBN 0192880454
^ The Celtic League Calendar
^ a b c d e f O'Driscoll, Robert (ed.) (1981) The Celtic Consciousness New York, Braziller ISBN 0-8076-1136-0 pp.197-216: Ross, Anne "Material Culture, Myth and Folk Memory" (on modern survivals); pp.217-242: Danaher, Kevin "Irish Folk Tradition and the Celtic Calendar" (on specific customs and rituals)
^ Campbell, John Gregorson (1900, 1902, 2005) The Gaelic Otherworld. Edited by Ronald Black. Edinburgh, Birlinn Ltd. ISBN 1-84158-207-7 pp.559-62
^ Adler, Margot (1979, revised edition 2006) Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today. Boston, Beacon Press ISBN 0-8070-3237-9. pp.3, 243-299
^ a b c McColman, Carl (2003) Complete Idiot's Guide to Celtic Wisdom. Alpha Press ISBN 0-02-864417-4. pp.12, 51
^ a b Bonewits, Isaac (2006) Bonewits's Essential Guide to Druidism. New York, Kensington Publishing Group ISBN 0-8065-2710-2. pp.179, 183-4, 128-140
^ Starhawk (1979, 1989) The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess. New York, Harper and Row ISBN 0-06-250814-8 pp.193-6 (revised edition)
[edit] Further reading
Carmichael, Alexander (1992). Carmina Gadelica. Lindisfarne Press ISBN 0-940262-50-9
Chadwick, Nora (1970) The Celts. London, Penguin ISBN 0-14-021211-6
Danaher, Kevin (1972) The Year in Ireland. Dublin, Mercier ISBN 1-85635-093-2
Evans-Wentz, W. Y. (1966, 1990) The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. New York, Citadel ISBN 0-8065-1160-5
MacKillop, James (1998). Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-280120-1
McNeill, F. Marian (1959) The Silver Bough, Vol. 1-4. William MacLellan, Glasgow
[edit] External links
Halloween and Samhain - Bilingual, Irish folklore.
Samhain: Season of Death and Renewal - Celtic Studies and Reconstructionism.
Feast of Samhain/Celtic New Year/Celebration of All Celtic Saints - Celtic Christians in Massachusetts, USA.
Samhain at the Hill of Tara, 2007 - Photos of the lighting of the signal fires on Tlachtga and Tara
Irish Fire Festivals: Samhain Celtic Pagan lore and customs.
The Witches' New Year - A Wiccan's account of her celebrations and beliefs regarding Samhain.
Samhain in Dorset - Various images of a modern Samhain celebration in Dorset, England.
Hallowe'en Information Sheet - Free pdf document from Witchology.com.
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Sanctuary

2009-09-23T10:17:00.001-07:00

Sanctuary

It is a Sanctuary
Above the street
The way they do that
In the big city;
Great buildings
Smog air
People everwhere
Trust the clique
Our Block
This place quiet
Untouched.

A double lock on the door
Alone separate
The field of play
Fenced on the roof
Over the roof dry and lite
The door of red steel
That too a place of sanctuary.

The hall old marble
Made by the dead
And they a sanctuary
Now somewhere beyond
The city soot;
Perhaps away to the forest
Or beyond the sea
Or past screaming siren
No never there
Among the sanctuarys
Beyond the silence
Of the Sanctuary

Secure and real
Plotted with our things
Our mind
The door locked and bolted
And beyond
The Sanctuary.

Judi Donnelly
copyright
July 31 2009

DERICKS OVER DUBLIN

2009-09-15T10:40:00.000-07:00

DERICKS OVER DUBLIN

Hangmans noose hangs in the sky

Above dark slate roofs they fly

Scavangers of greed waving by

Treading aire we know not why;

Alas below the people sigh

The cobblestones not yet arry

Behind a curtained windows lie

An infant sleeping; lovers leaping

Peopled cells as Man doth vie

With life below before he dies

And hangs upon the hangmans noose

Swinging back and forth ,unloosed

To build and spear the harmess sky

These dericks off above my eye.

judi donnelly
copyright
15 September 2009

written this day missed the bus

Ireland 2009 happy ending and given

2009-08-31T09:54:00.000-07:00

epilogue the happy ending

There is however a happy ending to the struggle.
As I left Denis I had given him a US dollar check for his advances telling him to cash it when the exchange was favorable.
He said nothing but tucked it away in his wallet and we parted in front of the Ilac on Henry St.
He for O Connell Station and myself for the computer inside the library there.

The check he sent out to my kid Tim with a letter saying he could not accept any payment from me and these advances had been from himself to me,
that my trip was safe and enjoyable.

Tim ws trying to send him money but I sent Tim an email as displayed here explaining the joy.

Here we have this old man grandfather and Aire and this young innocent boy grandson not yet subdued and surrendered to conformity.
Both reacting in an Old Irish Way like the princes they really are and putting to shame the entire crowd of obstruction to life.
Birds of Prey.
Birds of distruction.
Birds of screeching and greed.

Here replaced by a light from the past and a lite to the future an old man and a young boy going on together amid the fray.
And these the sharing of the secret garden of Life.

To Tim

I am in recipt the check from you and cousin d. and am overjoyed to see the old gaelic order still runing smoothy as it did before the english and the french and the vikings and the tourists and the armys of starving nationals from eastern europe and india and china.

This was what the old chiefs would have done and the old man came through just as naturally as did the young boy grandson with the ceide mile failte on my arrival.

True gentleman of the gael.

Of course I am just dying to copy this out and send of to the republican government and the us embassy tower of babylon but it would be over both their heads anyway why waste my time.

It would be an insult to refuse the chiefs offer so we must accept graciously.
As I was not able to find the names on the stone on the grave of sarah, tom and their ancestors I was hoping we could afford a little brass plaques to attach up there so these people are not lost entirely to the modern generations wars and tragic dead so this might be a good spot to invest this money in future and denis has already put his tithe to the dead in the hat.

Now the problem will be to get a few bucks out of the rest of them decended from.

Probaly a nice fall operation as all are busy right now entertaining sons and daughters putting in crops playing sports or fixing the home up that can not be done later in the year.

The old tara feis and law sessions were held in the fall from November 1 till 15th December when the weather called everyone back indoors.

So Denis knows he is always welcome at our places humble as they may be as he is family and worthy to be chief of the clann.

The old order did not just give the chieftainship or the kingship of rule to the eldest son like the english do which has produced some of its bad rulers but to the most qualified of the derbfine group.
A bad prince was not chosen but a prince who was able to rule and respected by the group ,the tribe and the clann.
They elected him like we elect our leader today.
A sure democracy there on the little green island and faireness truth and justice were honored as well as generosity in the 'aire' the chief.

Stangers went to the chief when they came.
The people did the chifs bidding and followed his provisions and all worked out quite well there.
No fighting No starvation No landless homeless person No lack of freedom within and down it came with great music to lament it. To bad.

So any vestages of this old system are welcome among the people decendant from it.
Also this return will be the end ,the criochnu, of the epiloge when get it written of the journey in from jfk to chicago to indy which I thought would end with the black meanness there but no it will end with the descent of grandfather and grandson carrying on without disruptions something deeper than mere euros or mere survival.
A culture and a soul ending to the Ectra mna na Finliata
do you have the

http://ireland2009ectramnanafinnliata.blogspot.com

got a good start on it and typing it up as I struggle through my hand of 2 months ago.

Good you sent this on and dont worry about denis he knows what he is doing.

Oh cathy said cara has no internet access up there at camp so she cant send me an email very well tell her can I have her cell number so can call her
whenever during her stay and is she still going with john lewis?
they need to work more at staying in touch all the grandkids do.

your mother

judi donnelly
copyright 16 june 2009

A Given

Life is given with a struggle
It skims and blossoms and wiggles forth
From nothing but love.

Nothing becomes something
Takes a form takes a shape
Materialized a spirit
A fog of reality and touchability.

Stuggles into being ,becoming survival
And that the Shee
TheSpirit of a movement and a magnatism hardly seeable Hardly felt.

Fleeting Real A Mist
A stroke of something on a landscape
Moving ,Wriggling ,Blossoming Skimming out of Nothing But love.

A feeling ,a desire, an input to an idea
A trilling stream like dainty water.
Becoming at last a great surge of waterfall keening over rock
That being
That creator
That life going on as though forever.

But wait!
One moment ,one breeze one stroke and life is gone

Suddenly with out warning without struggle
It is taken and becomes again Nothing

A spirit without form without fog or mist
Without sound or motion and love becomes a tear

A sorrow for a moment
Life is gone

But only a Moment on the canvas
When again with stuggle, with love
Life is given
Skimming blossoming Wiggling forth from Nothing But Love.

Judi Donnelly
copyright
3 july 2009

Ireland 2009 epilogue 2-3

2009-08-31T09:52:00.001-07:00

Ireland 2009 epilogue 2

As the Amtrak pulled out of NY Union Station at 5 pm headed on the long 16 hour Great Lakes Limited trip west I observed the last vestages of this great city as we came up on the west side of the Hudson River.
This area being smitten with great walls of grafetti for miles and old rusted buildings of its former industrial development era maybe 50 or close to 100 years before this time of 2009.

I absorbed the fearful blight and this land by Americas industrial development and here, neglected ,it has remained for a century like some kind of monument to uglyness and shameful abuse of a kind land.

After about 16 miles of this we suddenly passed back over the Hudson River to the east bank and there a whole new world of trees and shrubery ,clear open water and America as it normaly was.
Not pure but sturdy.

The river lay now to our left and I was seated on the right side of the train.
I commented that we would not than stop at West Point or the Roosevelt home along this west river road and was told thats right.

The train proceeded up through the deep dark wood of this expansive and never ending Adarondack range a natural woodland and now mostly 2nd growth also heavily exploited in the early development days of this America.

These woods are deep and dark not occupied by the proverbial fairys of Eire.
They are to fearful for that.
But you expect to see hovering within it great giant elk of ancient days.

The American green is not the same green as that of Ireland.
The green of wall paint and of newness green.
The green of a soil full of something sturdy and compact.
I had never been threw the Adarondack before and absorbed it assiduously as we passed threw.
The train stopping twice to repair a broken air line here in this wilderness of Americas east.

There are no towns on the east bank.
The entire trail took in one stop at Rensallear.
When we got to Schenectady it began to get dark and that would be the end of the obvservation.

A time to sleep which I had not done since before I left Dublin on June 3.

I had gone to the snack car when it hooked on at Albany and got for 2.25 the cereal thinking I couldnt get down the noodles.

Than I curled up in my seat were I was sitting by no one and off I went into the wonderful land of sombulism till maybe Clevland or Rochester NY at 2 or 3 AM.

I than sat up till 6 watching the dark country side of America and again observing the lite in the north before the sun rise.
Reflective lite from Ireland and Quebec and its latitude where it is light and gleaming at 5 am not 6.30 or so as here below the lakes.

After we passed Toledo Which impressed as being a town well ready as it had a hotel car there at the station to pick up passengers, a baggage cart to pick up luggage, and an air of capablity about it.

It is a Polish town and I remmbered the Polish brigade of Bow St waiting for more work from a bearly staggering Irish economy.
After that some how we did not leave Ohio as I thought but passed south threw more of that country.
Flat, well soiled ,well planted, productive.
The gates going down at every crossing as the train sped threw.

I saw some deer here and a few sheep and a few cows.
Joyful to see even this small supply of animal life in America.

I thought I was in Indiana but the conductor said we are still in Ohio.

I went up to the snack car to order noodles for breakfast but the attendant there who we all thought was an Australian by his accent said they had sold all the noodles so had to get muffin-- nice but not as filling.
I wish they had hard boiled eggs on Amtrack.
Maybe suggest it later.

I had asked the Nice young server if he was from Au because I have relatives there and he said he was English. From Nottingham.

I commented I was Irish and he was the enemy but he took that in good stride.

After a while eating my cereal I remembered the sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood and transportation and thought the Australians were probably transported by that Nottingham sheriff and were all Robin of Loxlys men and told our fellow thats why we thought he was Australian.
I think this took him back a bit but by morning he had recuperated his jovial English self.

I told him good luck with amtrak and riding the trains and to give the Queen our blessing.
He took this very seriously and proudly and said he would tell her.

He was to young to be in the British army sent over to subdue my Irish relatives.

When the train came to Gary and slowed as it labored past the great fields and devistating old steel works their looming brown towers and dust of brown ground and miles and miles of brown air and uglyness, we all became quiet as we passed this grave yard of dead industry.
A cancer soar on the earth.

Why do they keep it I thought out loud as they keep the walls of dirt and filth on the lower Hudson and as they keep the ovens of Poland awaiting some revival from a hellish past.

I went off to pee and announced to this car
'compliments of Andrew Carnegie who gave us this scenery and the public library'.

No one clapped.
No one gave out their own thoughts.
This is America.
Conformist ,dumbed down, not conserned, not aware.
Absorbed in its own nest and self preservation
Not invloved. Mot caring.

When the train came into Union station Chicago I had in my head to find Mega Bus and see if could go down to Indy on that.

Actually if we had better bus connections in the US like we used to amd the internet was ever set up by practical people who know what they were doing I probably could have got a bus from Toledo down to Indy this day instead of going all the way into Chi for it.

I didnt know that than and no way to have found it from Dublin with the lousy set ups we have online.
Taking a 40 hour week to find even minimal accomidation and schedules and fares.

Most of these big corporation stuctures wanting nothing to do with the clients except the credit card #s.

They are a part of the 'vulture culture'caring only for their own portion of food and to hell with anybody or anything that inhibits this selfish profitering.

Asked at the Union if Mega Bus was near and got a cynical
You dont want that from a worker but she told me it was just down the street a block.
So I walked down to see if could find it.

I did and a nice young black man of about 18 who said did I want a ticket.
It turned out he was the dispatcher for the compamy and worked the street to be sure the buses get to their space and the passengers on the bus they wanted.

The waiting area the street itself was packed and several mega buses were in place loading passengers for Cincinnatti, Detroit, Milwakee and so forth.
St Louis too I think.

This young man used his cell phone to contact the sales office so I could buy my ticket.

This was done with a bit of arguement over price they were charging 27.00 when 21 was online.

And than now I have two conformtions in my email which havent opened.
I hope they only charged me one .
Better get that open on Monday.
I have had so much back log since coming back and such disruptive from both microsoft and yahoo messing up the act that havent had time to do much else.

Anyway I got the ticket for the 3 pm bus and was out there by 1 pm sitting on the street like the rest.
I went back to Union station to get my bags from baggage and had to repack them into two to fit mega bus standards of only two bags.

While there, went into the old station across the street and remembered it from when I had gone to Calif in 1962 with 4 little kids.
A lonely mother without work or money setting of to survive by myself and my family.
In the station now deserted but still beautiful building was a post board discribing the new speed rail system being set up under the new Obama administration to give us back some high speed rail service.

I looked this over quite closely and took the poster notes but was disapointed that a cross country bullet train had not been approved for constuction going from the east to west coast and again from the north to the south like we used to have before 1950 when the automoblie took over the travel of families add the old private train lines were consolidated into the now government sponsored Amtrak service of electric trains.

The bus didnt show up by 3 but some of the loyal riders kept saying it would come.
At 4.45 the young man came back and duty for a second shift and when he saw me he said,
What are you still doing here?

We told him no bus and he took out his cell and called them and found out the driver had not shone up for work hence no bus.

Some how he got a driver and by 5 the bus came 2 hours late.
We loaded up and the young man again came to my rescue as I had the two bags for luggage and he tossed them both on.
They should allow two bags if they are going to haul train and airline standard passengers.

Anyway mega bus needs lots of room for improvement on its operations and this young fellow is a good employee of theirs.
I think he said his name was Jamal and I told him he had a good grandma as his attitude was top rate as it goes among chicago black folk.

I hope he gets a promotion and will succeed in his ability.

We got to Indy at 9.30 Pm and the Mega dropped all off at the Closed City Hall.
No one knew where we were.
It was dark. Evrything was closed.

Epilogue 3

Ticket agent at Greyhound refused to watch my 2 bags while I walked across street to buy a sausage roll.
Tried to charge me 400 when lock boxs here say 3.00 to put bags in lockers.

On my way out the door iItold this young wippersnapper that his behavoir to the elderly was crueland abusive and this would not happen from an Irishman who was taught from childhood to be helpful to the aged.
I also noted this was part of the culture of th Black community upon which he threatened to have me arrested if I did not leave his counter.

That the 4.00 charge was imposed by Greyhound Corp not himself the employee.
I advised him he needed to start thinking as a human being not a corporate automaton and slave which got him even more hysterical to loose control of his programed front. Bonzia!

However I on detecting that if this employee had been accosted by an elderly black woman he would have taken in her bags and helped her.
I am however 72 and not black and therefore a target of his real or imagined or programmed reprisal for 100 years old efforts in the deep south buried deeply in the recesses of this brain incapable of reasoning beyond the programmed response.

However this middle aged man is probably not of salvagable quality being more in need of military disapline than reason.

If Greyhound had formulated policy telling him to kill the customers he would have justifiable done so.
Vietnam syndrome.

However it struck me as pretty shabby and ignorant behavior for this guy to react abusively with automatic threats to a stranger in a public place on D Day when 12,000 men gave their lives to put him in this good job with a power to abuse other human beings and Human Rights Acts.
Well will run by Grayhound Corp.

Amtrak blond ticket agent refusal to take 2 seconds of her time to look up a fare from Indy to Chi for a senior as it was time for her to close. She had a million things to do and callthe #800 number to get this info or go online.

Again an abuseive attitude to a customer and both these Indy people get a good salary from their companies having ample facilities to do their job they are not doing.
Again this needs to be run by the Companies to see if this abusive amimalistic behavoir and self interest is coming from the Company policy or from within the types of persons the Company is hiring.
Probably both.
The abuser hires the abuser to carry out the abusive policy as they send the grunt into hell for the general in command.

The mega Bus from Chicago drops its people off at the city hall .beautiful! About 5 million contacts and leaves them with no place to go and no direction at all.
Across from this place I beleive that is Washington St one of 3 well lite up gaudy Vegas gambling casino style places offers bond to get out of jail.

I thought they should know where the local police dept was.
Went in no body there.
In about 5 minutes a surly looking fellow about 40 came out of the back room looking pretty greedy.
To eat the pigeon.

When I asked for directions he became very hostile saaying the mega bus people were always bugging him about where to go.
Understandable as at 9.30 Pm the town of large cell like structures are all locked and closed and no people about about. Like Tamlach on the Luas in Dublin.

aAain threats to call the law to arrest little old ladies with baggage if I did not get lost.
These people have no mother but are hatched like snakes not birds who are warm blooded and show a brain.
I told him if he didnt want to be bothered to turn out his lights and shut his door and no one would bother him anymore.

I walked out on the steeet and some young couple tried to direct me to the bus station where I am still 12 hours later.

I went instead toward the Conrad hotel trying to find the bus stop for the airport.
Wanting to go out there and wait for the shuttle to bloomington.

The doorman there did not know about the bus.
Young white guy but he did get me a map.

Than a cabby brought me here for 2.00 after we found we cant get the bus to airport after 9.
So is it open outhere 7 miles out of town.

The night shift at station said I could stay and wathed my two bags while I walked over to White Tower to get a bite to eat not having any lunch in chi and only the muffin on the train that morning.
The street was alrady going stong with tom tom drums loud and men set to pick up any old lady who was out there for the party
and lo life for the party going on outside.

They do have a drug and drinking problem up here and some queers adn wierdo desires.

Did get a bit of sleep and the ladies at White Tower also gave me hot water for a coffee.

The phones IBS or some such --depost 1.00 for 4 minutes.
But dial for collect
Kathy and Mary I tried collect but said will not accept collect these numbers.
Had cell for Sarah 50 cents for 5 minutes sayign number disconnected.

So had to call tim again to call kathy to see if she is coming to get me.
She was going last night she said but didnt show up probably couldnt find the bus station.

79A is the exit not 79B.
I think thats were Mary made her mistake as she came in with Lucas Standium in front of her drove right past the bus om South st and thats how she got lost 2 months ago.

You cant see the place fromthe street at 6.30 am .No sign.

The students are here. Do they have free long distance no answer self absorbed.
I am not of the nest.
They wont let me dial Sarah ontheir phone.
This is the education theyget in the US.
They are afraid of an old person.
Well maybe foreign no english as they are now on the phone, blah blah blah.
Eastern or Russian it sounds like.

Well just have to sit here and wait for Kathy to find the place till 10.
I hope she hadnt left when I just called Tim at 8 if she is still home she should be here by 9 -half past.
If she is not here by 10 will have to try and get out to the airport on the bus #8 and take the bloomington shuttle to bloomintgton.
No grocery store here.

4 blocks to speedway down south.
All the downtown areas now a hodge podge of archetectural wonders. No people No business No store.
A Peterson complex post the soy bean taxes across the state.
Rockefeller Plaza style.

Some food would help.
I am a bit hazy.
Well better keep my mouth shut for an hour see if she shows up.

Kathy did show up about 10 in her nice sleek black car and I met her at the corner and off we went headed for 37 south.
Glad at last to be released from the stuggle to survive on the road.

I expected this to be the end of hardship and vulture behavior however not so as found the rest of them hdd been trying to distroy the nest here in bloomington as well.
Allwomen again.
The witch case of the New World Order Vulture Culture.

judi donnelly
copyright
16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 epilogue 2

As the Amtrak pulled out of NY Union Station at 5 pm headed on the long 16 hour Great Lakes Limited trip west I observed the last vestages of this great city as we came up on the west side of the Hudson River.
This area being smitten with great walls of grafetti for miles and old rusted buildings of its former industrial development era maybe 50 or close to 100 years before this time of 2009.

I absorbed the fearful blight and this land by Americas industrial development and here, neglected ,it has remained for a century like some kind of monument to uglyness and shameful abuse of a kind land.

After about 16 miles of this we suddenly passed back over the Hudson River to the east bank and there a whole new world of trees and shrubery ,clear open water and America as it normaly was.
Not pure but sturdy.

The river lay now to our left and I was seated on the right side of the train.
I commented that we would not than stop at West Point or the Roosevelt home along this west river road and was told thats right.

The train proceeded up through the deep dark wood of this expansive and never ending Adarondack range a natural woodland and now mostly 2nd growth also heavily exploited in the early development days of this America.

These woods are deep and dark not occupied by the proverbial fairys of Eire.
They are to fearful for that.
But you expect to see hovering within it great giant elk of ancient days.

The American green is not the same green as that of Ireland.
The green of wall paint and of newness green.
The green of a soil full of something sturdy and compact.
I had never been threw the Adarondack before and absorbed it assiduously as we passed threw.
The train stopping twice to repair a broken air line here in this wilderness of Americas east.

There are no towns on the east bank.
The entire trail took in one stop at Rensallear.
When we got to Schenectady it began to get dark and that would be the end of the obvservation.

A time to sleep which I had not done since before I left Dublin on June 3.

I had gone to the snack car when it hooked on at Albany and got for 2.25 the cereal thinking I couldnt get down the noodles.

Than I curled up in my seat were I was sitting by no one and off I went into the wonderful land of sombulism till maybe Clevland or Rochester NY at 2 or 3 AM.

I than sat up till 6 watching the dark country side of America and again observing the lite in the north before the sun rise.
Reflective lite from Ireland and Quebec and its latitude where it is light and gleaming at 5 am not 6.30 or so as here below the lakes.

After we passed Toledo Which impressed as being a town well ready as it had a hotel car there at the station to pick up passengers, a baggage cart to pick up luggage, and an air of capablity about it.

It is a Polish town and I remmbered the Polish brigade of Bow St waiting for more work from a bearly staggering Irish economy.
After that some how we did not leave Ohio as I thought but passed south threw more of that country.
Flat, well soiled ,well planted, productive.
The gates going down at every crossing as the train sped threw.

I saw some deer here and a few sheep and a few cows.
Joyful to see even this small supply of animal life in America.

I thought I was in Indiana but the conductor said we are still in Ohio.

I went up to the snack car to order noodles for breakfast but the attendant there who we all thought was an Australian by his accent said they had sold all the noodles so had to get muffin-- nice but not as filling.
I wish they had hard boiled eggs on Amtrack.
Maybe suggest it later.

I had asked the Nice young server if he was from Au because I have relatives there and he said he was English. From Nottingham.

I commented I was Irish and he was the enemy but he took that in good stride.

After a while eating my cereal I remembered the sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood and transportation and thought the Australians were probably transported by that Nottingham sheriff and were all Robin of Loxlys men and told our fellow thats why we thought he was Australian.
I think this took him back a bit but by morning he had recuperated his jovial English self.

I told him good luck with amtrak and riding the trains and to give the Queen our blessing.
He took this very seriously and proudly and said he would tell her.

He was to young to be in the British army sent over to subdue my Irish relatives.

When the train came to Gary and slowed as it labored past the great fields and devistating old steel works their looming brown towers and dust of brown ground and miles and miles of brown air and uglyness, we all became quiet as we passed this grave yard of dead industry.
A cancer soar on the earth.

Why do they keep it I thought out loud as they keep the walls of dirt and filth on the lower Hudson and as they keep the ovens of Poland awaiting some revival from a hellish past.

I went off to pee and announced to this car
'compliments of Andrew Carnegie who gave us this scenery and the public library'.

No one clapped.
No one gave out their own thoughts.
This is America.
Conformist ,dumbed down, not conserned, not aware.
Absorbed in its own nest and self preservation
Not invloved. Mot caring.

When the train came into Union station Chicago I had in my head to find Mega Bus and see if could go down to Indy on that.

Actually if we had better bus connections in the US like we used to amd the internet was ever set up by practical people who know what they were doing I probably could have got a bus from Toledo down to Indy this day instead of going all the way into Chi for it.

I didnt know that than and no way to have found it from Dublin with the lousy set ups we have online.
Taking a 40 hour week to find even minimal accomidation and schedules and fares.

Most of these big corporation stuctures wanting nothing to do with the clients except the credit card #s.

They are a part of the 'vulture culture'caring only for their own portion of food and to hell with anybody or anything that inhibits this selfish profitering.

Asked at the Union if Mega Bus was near and got a cynical
You dont want that from a worker but she told me it was just down the street a block.
So I walked down to see if could find it.

I did and a nice young black man of about 18 who said did I want a ticket.
It turned out he was the dispatcher for the compamy and worked the street to be sure the buses get to their space and the passengers on the bus they wanted.

The waiting area the street itself was packed and several mega buses were in place loading passengers for Cincinnatti, Detroit, Milwakee and so forth.
St Louis too I think.

This young man used his cell phone to contact the sales office so I could buy my ticket.

This was done with a bit of arguement over price they were charging 27.00 when 21 was online.

And than now I have two conformtions in my email which havent opened.
I hope they only charged me one .
Better get that open on Monday.
I have had so much back log since coming back and such disruptive from both microsoft and yahoo messing up the act that havent had time to do much else.

Anyway I got the ticket for the 3 pm bus and was out there by 1 pm sitting on the street like the rest.
I went back to Union station to get my bags from baggage and had to repack them into two to fit mega bus standards of only two bags.

While there, went into the old station across the street and remembered it from when I had gone to Calif in 1962 with 4 little kids.
A lonely mother without work or money setting of to survive by myself and my family.
In the station now deserted but still beautiful building was a post board discribing the new speed rail system being set up under the new Obama administration to give us back some high speed rail service.

I looked this over quite closely and took the poster notes but was disapointed that a cross country bullet train had not been approved for constuction going from the east to west coast and again from the north to the south like we used to have before 1950 when the automoblie took over the travel of families add the old private train lines were consolidated into the now government sponsored Amtrak service of electric trains.

The bus didnt show up by 3 but some of the loyal riders kept saying it would come.
At 4.45 the young man came back and duty for a second shift and when he saw me he said,
What are you still doing here?

We told him no bus and he took out his cell and called them and found out the driver had not shone up for work hence no bus.

Some how he got a driver and by 5 the bus came 2 hours late.
We loaded up and the young man again came to my rescue as I had the two bags for luggage and he tossed them both on.
They should allow two bags if they are going to haul train and airline standard passengers.

Anyway mega bus needs lots of room for improvement on its operations and this young fellow is a good employee of theirs.
I think he said his name was Jamal and I told him he had a good grandma as his attitude was top rate as it goes among chicago black folk.

I hope he gets a promotion and will succeed in his ability.

We got to Indy at 9.30 Pm and the Mega dropped all off at the Closed City Hall.
No one knew where we were.
It was dark. Evrything was closed.

Epilogue 3

Ticket agent at Greyhound refused to watch my 2 bags while I walked across street to buy a sausage roll.
Tried to charge me 400 when lock boxs here say 3.00 to put bags in lockers.

On my way out the door iItold this young wippersnapper that his behavoir to the elderly was crueland abusive and this would not happen from an Irishman who was taught from childhood to be helpful to the aged.
I also noted this was part of the culture of th Black community upon which he threatened to have me arrested if I did not leave his counter.

That the 4.00 charge was imposed by Greyhound Corp not himself the employee.
I advised him he needed to start thinking as a human being not a corporate automaton and slave which got him even more hysterical to loose control of his programed front. Bonzia!

However I on detecting that if this employee had been accosted by an elderly black woman he would have taken in her bags and helped her.
I am however 72 and not black and therefore a target of his real or imagined or programmed reprisal for 100 years old efforts in the deep south buried deeply in the recesses of this brain incapable of reasoning beyond the programmed response.

However this middle aged man is probably not of salvagable quality being more in need of military disapline than reason.

If Greyhound had formulated policy telling him to kill the customers he would have justifiable done so.
Vietnam syndrome.

However it struck me as pretty shabby and ignorant behavior for this guy to react abusively with automatic threats to a stranger in a public place on D Day when 12,000 men gave their lives to put him in this good job with a power to abuse other human beings and Human Rights Acts.
Well will run by Grayhound Corp.

Amtrak blond ticket agent refusal to take 2 seconds of her time to look up a fare from Indy to Chi for a senior as it was time for her to close. She had a million things to do and callthe #800 number to get this info or go online.

Again an abuseive attitude to a customer and both these Indy people get a good salary from their companies having ample facilities to do their job they are not doing.
Again this needs to be run by the Companies to see if this abusive amimalistic behavoir and self interest is coming from the Company policy or from within the types of persons the Company is hiring.
Probably both.
The abuser hires the abuser to carry out the abusive policy as they send the grunt into hell for the general in command.

The mega Bus from Chicago drops its people off at the city hall .beautiful! About 5 million contacts and leaves them with no place to go and no direction at all.
Across from this place I beleive that is Washington St one of 3 well lite up gaudy Vegas gambling casino style places offers bond to get out of jail.

I thought they should know where the local police dept was.
Went in no body there.
In about 5 minutes a surly looking fellow about 40 came out of the back room looking pretty greedy.
To eat the pigeon.

When I asked for directions he became very hostile saaying the mega bus people were always bugging him about where to go.
Understandable as at 9.30 Pm the town of large cell like structures are all locked and closed and no people about about. Like Tamlach on the Luas in Dublin.

aAain threats to call the law to arrest little old ladies with baggage if I did not get lost.
These people have no mother but are hatched like snakes not birds who are warm blooded and show a brain.
I told him if he didnt want to be bothered to turn out his lights and shut his door and no one would bother him anymore.

I walked out on the steeet and some young couple tried to direct me to the bus station where I am still 12 hours later.

I went instead toward the Conrad hotel trying to find the bus stop for the airport.
Wanting to go out there and wait for the shuttle to bloomington.

The doorman there did not know about the bus.
Young white guy but he did get me a map.

Than a cabby brought me here for 2.00 after we found we cant get the bus to airport after 9.
So is it open outhere 7 miles out of town.

The night shift at station said I could stay and wathed my two bags while I walked over to White Tower to get a bite to eat not having any lunch in chi and only the muffin on the train that morning.
The street was alrady going stong with tom tom drums loud and men set to pick up any old lady who was out there for the party
and lo life for the party going on outside.

They do have a drug and drinking problem up here and some queers adn wierdo desires.

Did get a bit of sleep and the ladies at White Tower also gave me hot water for a coffee.

The phones IBS or some such --depost 1.00 for 4 minutes.
But dial for collect
Kathy and Mary I tried collect but said will not accept collect these numbers.
Had cell for Sarah 50 cents for 5 minutes sayign number disconnected.

So had to call tim again to call kathy to see if she is coming to get me.
She was going last night she said but didnt show up probably couldnt find the bus station.

79A is the exit not 79B.
I think thats were Mary made her mistake as she came in with Lucas Standium in front of her drove right past the bus om South st and thats how she got lost 2 months ago.

You cant see the place fromthe street at 6.30 am .No sign.

The students are here. Do they have free long distance no answer self absorbed.
I am not of the nest.
They wont let me dial Sarah ontheir phone.
This is the education theyget in the US.
They are afraid of an old person.
Well maybe foreign no english as they are now on the phone, blah blah blah.
Eastern or Russian it sounds like.

Well just have to sit here and wait for Kathy to find the place till 10.
I hope she hadnt left when I just called Tim at 8 if she is still home she should be here by 9 -half past.
If she is not here by 10 will have to try and get out to the airport on the bus #8 and take the bloomington shuttle to bloomintgton.
No grocery store here.

4 blocks to speedway down south.
All the downtown areas now a hodge podge of archetectural wonders. No people No business No store.
A Peterson complex post the soy bean taxes across the state.
Rockefeller Plaza style.

Some food would help.
I am a bit hazy.
Well better keep my mouth shut for an hour see if she shows up.

Kathy did show up about 10 in her nice sleek black car and I met her at the corner and off we went headed for 37 south.
Glad at last to be released from the stuggle to survive on the road.

I expected this to be the end of hardship and vulture behavior however not so as found the rest of them hdd been trying to distroy the nest here in bloomington as well.
Allwomen again.
The witch case of the New World Order Vulture Culture.

judi donnelly
copyright
16 june 2009

ireland 2009 epilogue 1-1a

2009-08-31T09:41:00.000-07:00

Epilogue to Irish trip 2009

letter to port authority nyc

When I arrived back from Europe at JFK this month I was very lost in your large terminal there and there were not adequate signs to direct anybody to anyplace but the airtrain out of there.

No signs were posted telling anyone looking for food shops or restrooms or other services that they might need at this massive airport.
Hence I named it
the cow pasture which suits its current state .

However luckily at 72 I am still slimm and good looking hence as I roamed forward from my delta landing dock two loud mouth black men managed with great panashe to get me and some other tight lipped lady on the right elevator and pointed to wherever we wanted to go.

They were more knowlageable about this cow pasture being its resident cowboys than any of your sign posts.

And hence they were able to direct me to teminal 4 which has the restaurants and the alleged travelers aid and the money exchange and the computer and the telephones.

At terminal 4 ,the barn of the place ,a desk indicated that a travelers aid was present there.
I told the lady on the desk that hour ,11 AM us time, that I had about 10.00 and needed help in locating emergency shelter for the night as my continued trip via rail would not connect till next afternoon.

She advised me there were no homeless or other sheltering facilities in all of Queens and it was not a safe province anymore and that I could stay there in terminal 4 for the night sitting on the only bench in this long banqueting hall barn.

Checking the exchange desk It was discovered that the euro was selling for only 27 cents against the us dollar whereas in europe the us dollar was buying the euro for 1.48 cents that day or at a loss of 48 cents of the dollar to acquire a euro.
yet the same money on this side of the pond was worth only a 27 cent refund on the exchange.

Well the market is fixed by either the central bank or the international money market controlled by your great big fat corrupt UN down there so no sense in exchanging the extra ten just than.

When I fanally made it over to the bench with my nice subway map low and behold my two pals of the corridor and elevator comparing their just purchased lottery numbers.
And they bought two or three of these hoping to hit it big but they didnt and I suppose that was the end of their allowance from their va or ssi check for the month of June.

After figuring out which subway to get to manhattan on and that not the recomended Howard Beach through Brooklyn but the 8th ave from Jamaica station I went off to the desk again to inquire about the food shops.

Now a mouthy man was on the desk very New Yorkish and perfectly willing to chastise any tourists with their ingorance of the city and thier need of his loud stage like wisdom.
I probably went to school with him.

In the course of waiting for my turn I leaned my bags up against the nearby wall and got the 3rd floor out of him and where is the elevator to the 3rd floor.
Down at the end of some long hall along with the chastizement as to the danger of leaving the bags out of my clutching hand for the minute as though they were the most precious gold in the world not my pile of used rags and papers of no value particularly.

My ten bucks and my passport being in my hand bag on my shoulder.
Off I went down the half mile hall with no signs to the end looking for the elevator to the third floor and the shops.

I did notice that this style of archetecture was exactly to the tune of the Dublin airport which also has the long hall with little signs and all the shops on the third floor.

Why are shops on the 3rd floor anyway.
Is that a security funtion or what?

When got up there and found a lot of expensive places finally found my way to mc ds at the very end got something to eat and asked for a bottle of hot water for my tea.

The spanish girl had all kinds of resevations as to putting hot water in the plastic campers bottle which I had used all my trip for this purpuse because the plastic might be hot.
The bottle comes with a strap to hold if the sides are hot however no speaka da english well enough to feel safe with this inventive strap.
She finally after talking with her manager was allowed to give me the hot water for tea in a paper cup which was just as hot as the plastic which I simply poured into the plastic bottle picked it up by the strap and went back to my unguarded luggage at the table.
No one ran off with the golden bags during this struggle to communicate with mc ds help.

Since your airport has no luggage storage I think there was one in terminal 4 for 8 bucks a bag and no visable place to rest and the upstairs seating was full of muslem looking hajib women and men with their heads in their arms sleeping or trying to at 12 pm on a wensday and a bunch of french kids with laptops taking notes of it all.
I ,in good irish fashion mnnaged to give them all hell for being so docile to their abuse sat down by a black fellow told him to listen to Michelle Ob as to her garden for survival.
Asked where was the phone .
It is behind the staircase. Went there dialed.
Believe it or not the phone actually worked to dial an 800 without putting in the euro -$ to get dial tone.

Got amtrak asked their phone person-- they do have a human on the phones not the voice mail saying
'hi there leave your name and nunber and I'll get back to you'
Told her I was going out the following day on amtrak did they have baggage for that future train could access that afternoon.
Yes they did.
Can I stay in the Penn station overnight or does it shut down.
Yes I can as long as have a ticket so good bye to jfk cow pasture and barn off to the air train out of the place to jamaica station to grab the train to penn station.

There I discoverd the 5.oo charge to exit the air train of either Howard Beach or Jamaica station.
So I had to spend half my 10 bucks to get the hell out of there.
The only time in my infrequent flyer life had to pay a poll tax to exit an airport.
And this the most famous one in the world besides the one at Televive.

Luckily there was a nice black lady on duty at the terminal point who knew how to operate the machine to get the ticket to exit the airport and also include the 2.00 to get through the turnstile into the subway line. $7.00 to leave jfk which left me 3 bucks.

The down to the tracks there is still the old 1910 stairwell.
No excalator or bag lift so could not get down the steps with both bags.
Had to leave one at the top go half way down and back up for the other one.
Fortunatly an alert black subway guard saw the bag came over to be sure it was not the terrorist trying to blow up the stairwell and seeing me half way down said could you use some help.
Yes I said I would appriciate it.

He picked up the top of landing bag brought it down and me with the other and so we arrived at the track just as a train pulled in.
Is that the train I want .
Yes it is he says and got on.
I got on too and just in time standing by the pole with the two bags but finding a seat shortly looked for the subway map saying where this train was going.

Now there is an electonic thing up over the door which is different and I am not sure as easy to read as the old wall maps with the stations marked.
As the first thing saw was saying the train went to world trade center said oh god got on the wrong train.
As we speed along asked my guard was this the right train for penn.
yes he says I was on the right train.

Later I was able to find the penn station half way on this line the world trade center being the end run.
So I made it there one of the stations opening on the other side not the same side the rest of the stations opened on therefore was pointed to the wrong door and had to get the bags off before the train left again.

You should post a light to notify which side the door opening will be on for the next station right or left green for open red for not open so people riding the train with stuff know which way they are getting off before the train pulls into the station.
As most of the trains are packed and a crowd trying to get off and on not used to having to wait for bags or unfamiliar persons to negociate their personal routes in and out.
In fact they are chastised for not being new yorkers.

The walk up from the subway was like 3/4 of a mile and again had some difficulty with the bags on the up escalator or maybe it was a stair.
Some fellow a bit fat and fortish with glasses and very sure of his command of this run decided to help me get on my way to the amtrak he said he was going that way.

When we got to the turnstyle the red bag of course at 2 feet wide was to big to slide under the exit so this fellow went to the emergency gate opened it and out we went me right behind with the black bag full of heavy papers and this fellow almost ran on to the concourse. So fast I had to almost jog to keep ,him with my pile of rags ,up to his pace.

I was conserned he was hoping to loose me in the crowd which was like 700 strong and I would loose the nice road map of all the counties in Ireland in that bag along with the holy water from the Shannon river and the rocks from the carrowmore and graves of Ireland.
Presious remembrances.

I also had in that bag of rags my nice tricolor bought at the Burren for 5.00 the same price paid over here for a little fair item flag.
The size got in Ireland would sell in the US for like 20.00.

Eventually I caught up to my helper and I must have lost the 5 pounds not him assured him I could make it the rest of the way by myself and off he went reluctant to part with my sweet and loving company.

I went on down the concourse for a bit not finding the amtrak signs.
Finaly came to a sign saying amtrack end of concourse. And a 3 flight steps up.

There was supposed to be an excalator.
No sign.
Went back a bit.
No escalator.
Went forward a bit.
No escalator.
Asked two black security police where the escalator to amtrak was .
They didnt know .
Finaly started up the steps with the bags.
Again a man came to my resque .
This one about 25 and skinny took the black bag and I the red and up we went to the top accompanied by a middle aged woman asking if I could make it ok .
She was standing by to take the bag on up if I faltered.

At the top low and behold the amtrak station.
Ticket offices and all.

The signs directing one to the amtrack need to be more clearly defined on the concourse where there are so many people you have to use your eyes to walk and not bump into most of them .
A flashing sign by the escalator would be useful.

In fact while in The North of Ireland was able to ride the lifts.
Which go from story to story in the malls .
These run like moving side walks are very easy to get on and off.
I was so impressed with them as compared to the outdated old fashioned american equipment like the blue line and the subway decents in NYC that I enquired where these were made.

Right her in Belfast I was told.

Belfast the city of imported engineers and boat builders having lost the nest of wolfe and harland is now building the lift.

I suggested these should be promoted in the US as a product that would create work in both countres as well as improve transportation for the traveler at the big airports and cities.
They were very proud that I had noticed this convient way to get in and out of their stores.

At Penn I was able finally to get the bags checked and by than was tired so went to the amtrak waiting room to rest up a bit.

I was unable to find anyone there who knew anything about a mission or shelter nearby so ended up spending, with jet lag ,the night in the station trying not to fall out of the amtrak chairs.

I was rather perturbed that no one in this travel center had any information handy or posted regarding hostels or shelter in the area.
And of course after dark did not want to venture out on the street anyway.
After a hard night, in the morning
I finally asked the present amtrak station police there if they knew anything about hostels in the area .

They did not understand what a hostel was.

I tried to explain to this young man that a hostel was a cheap shelter like a hotel but he did not connect with that word and was getting annoyed with my persistance.
I managed to find the amtrak ,allededly 24 hours Customer Service Center, to ask about hostels.
The black lady on duty also never heard of a hostel.
She knew about some hotels nearby.
All like 100 a night.

While this conversation was ongoing one of the amtrak people came in hearing the talk and said yes he had heard of the international student hostel but it was not for americans only foreigners.

I disagreed and to prove his point he pulled out a large book of information referral and went to hostels and produced a list of 11 Manahattan hostels one of them on 30th and 8th Avenue only 2 blocks from Penn station.
This he copied for me and took it to the amtrak cop who finally said yes he had some idea that these were there.
We discussed this with the guards on the amtrak waiting room entry also who also had no knowledge that there were youth hostels nearby in Manhattan that could be used for all the people sleeping in the train station waiting room like I was because they didnt have 100 for a bed for the night .

This information was also passed on to the ny tourist kiosk there where the nice french kid said he already knew about the hostels but this kiosk was closed when I got to the station at 12pm on june 3rd and was still closed when we discussed this information with the amtrak people in the morning and was still closed when got back from my street wander as soon as it got light to find a breakfast place and see if could run the blood pressure.
There is a pharmacy right across the street on 8th ave.

The object being to get the amtrak people to post a number or a list of addresses and numbers of various hostels in the travel area where people waiting for a connection could get a room and a bath and a meal rather than skulking around with the homeless who still arrive at 2 am and are acceptable and known .

The homeless are not strangers and attract no hostility as do passing through passengers.
But they serve a purpose in compassion as the on duty people see no sence in evicting passengers from the waiting room when the homeless are curled up on the station floor passed out in absolute securtiy that they belong there.

I dont remeber where ,customer service amtrak probably, someone printed out the google maps list of hostels near ny ,ny and queens, ny.
These near enough to that big cow pasture
that the service desk at terminal 4 should have referred me to one or two of them at 11.00 am when I advised them I needed to lay over.

They offered no help at all this reguard or that there is a salvation army citidal in jamaica on jamaica bld probably just about where the train was at jamaica station.

For a city that prides itself on tourist awareness, on good transportion signs and on knowledge of the area, Where to go, What to eat, What to look out for this new world order 'vulture culture' of callous feeding and greedy distain of anybody wandering around with out big bills of local money hanging out of their hats, expresses a not so subconcious meanness towards any other human being not in their nesty clique.

This is not the ny that I went to ps 39 in rockaway beach way back when the troops and the refugees were coming home and ny welcomed them and they cried on seeing the great lady in the harbor who spoke not a word of yiddish, scuttlebutt ,or knew where are the girls.

This attitude needs to be put back under its rock of bug behvior.
And the resistance to it begins with you.

Mot only are the hostels and accomidations for all not posted in the travel area the verison pay phones are demanding in eirecom fashion, payment of 1 euro for making a call no matter how long that call might be or even if the call were collect.
These phones are useless and should not be there like beggars to bilk the travelers.
Why are the old reliable operator assisted phones being removed where you didnt need a quarter or dime to bill a call to your home number, make a collect call, or ask for operator assitance?

When about 11 pm I mentioned to one of the amtrak waiting room guards that I couldnt call my daughter to let her know where I was she said whats the number? dialed on her personal cell and I left the message 'am at penn staion for train up tommorow 'on her recorder.

This is the ny I remember from my youth.
People who were people. Who helped each other. Who were not afraid of life or their fellow man.

Not what is going on there today.

I did get the card for the 30th street hostel handed to me by the nice young frenchman in the tourist kiosk but 16 hours after I needed it.

I know you can do better if you work at it.

In future I hope that the services and signs and seating and phones and computer, again eirecom machines 10 minutes for what?
A real bargan for the owner of the machines.

At jfk international can be made more traveler friendly at the travelers aid sign out there in terminal 4.

The fee for leaving the airport sort of a poll tax should be eliminated.
It is the only airport I have ever been in where you have to pay the guard to ecape.

I should have been able to access either one of these queens hostels for about 18.00 a night or the salvation army emergency shelter from that desk along with direction to and a phone call by them to establish if the facility could take me.
The Irish tourist board does as much for americans going to their country and this airport is one of the favorites for most european airlines.

Detroit and Cincinatti have better air service and ground transportation.

You also have a problem out there with city buses that refuse to take a passenger with baggage making them pay 13.00 for a bus into Manhattan.

The piece d' resistance was when I was in indianapolis bus station a few nights later which tops even chicago and queens for' vulture culture' nesting on the trash can ;spoke to few students, our lovely students who were not speaking engish.
I asked where they were from .
Russia

One spoke english enough to tell me they came through jfk and had to take a taxi to the city to get the greyhoud bus.
They were going to Colorado by bus.

I asked the young man how much this cost them .

70 us dollars he said proudly not knowing how many ruples that had cost them.
I told them dobre dan and they got on their bus to Colorado.

I wating for my daughter to come pick me up as indy has no bus to the town I live in.

The deterioration of service, attitude, accessiblity, knowledge and human kindness since I was last there under Koch is visibly bad.

You cannot continue in this manner and expect to have the respect of the world or your own nation for very long.

It should not be dangerous, demeaning or threating to life and contentment to pass through ny city or its boroughs containing major transport systems like airports, train,stations and bus terminals.

It should be possible to make a phone call ,to have resonably priced food ,to be able to use restrooms or to check bags in lockers for a few hours.
And it should be possible to have shelter accessible on demnand of some sort either by an 800 number or a posting of available resourses in these main lobby areas.

I did finally walk out of mc ds on 7th ave as they do not dispay the dollar menue as it is all over the world displayed.
Went to burger king at 6.30 am ate with the loud mouths roaming about that hour.
Went upstairs to see their internet access machines,
2.00 us for 10 minutes 9.00 us for one hour.

Worse than eirecom and this a british company .

There should be internet access in the train and bus terminals in the airports nowadays with a price travelers can afford to pay.
A fair price like 1/2 hour for one dollar .
Not to bilk the poor locals who are too poor to buy a machine.

You are out of touch with reality and living in the wall street mode of bilk, screw the passerby ,overcharge because thats a need.
And sit on the trash can like a vulture waiting for the carrion to tear it apart .

I am dissatisfied with the citys running of its port faclilites and hope you will make an effort to end this greed and neglect.

Judi Donnelly
Bloomington indiana
judiann22@yahoo.com

epilogue 1a

As we stood before the great central board at penn station waiting for this board to announce the track the train you wanted would arrive and leave on and that it was boarding;

this area containing maybe 400 or 500 waiting watching people all stangers to one another, some sitting ,some standing ,some leaning on the rail around the down excalator;

a young woman appeared on this floor with a cell phone and a troubled look on her face.
She was talking to the port authority police.
Apparently she had left her purse containing all her funds and id on one of the trains. Whether long distance rail or a subway reamins unclear.

aA this converstion went on the police kept asking her questions questioning her impuning her claim and filling her with their proceedures as to what she must do.

She became more disturbed and I could see was about to break down to tears.
She crouched down to a stooping position and as she did so the tear flowed.
We cauld allsee she was troubled.

I said out loud tothose around watching her ,she left her purse on a train.
The converstion continued with the police.

In a few monents she hung up the phone and rose retreating a few feet back from her crouching post again crouched down, her cell in her hand and her arms crossed over her face.

A well dressed middle aged woman about 30 came up to her touched her shoulder and began ingaging her with converstation.

Apparently she had a child someplace and needed to pick this baby up but could not becuase of her purse loss and of course she hdd no money.

Somehow she had managed to have this cell seaparate from the bag.

In a few moments the woman opend her own purse pulled out several bills, 20s I believe ,gave them to the young woman who accepted these with suprise but she did grab them to her.
The woman proffered anotherbill and than the young woman rose from the floor almost relieved ,thanked this lady and the lady shooed her off to recover her child and her goods hopefully.
She almost ran from the station to the 8th avenue door.

The giving well dressed lady faded back into the crowd of watchers waiting for her train.

I dont think any names or addresses or numbers were exchanged betwen them.
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This generousity and relief of distress This passing of the hat or the benevolence of the fortunate to the unforunate is charachteristic of New Yorkers.

If it was a scam like Jean val Jean the candles will be returnd in time.
If a valid loss the money openly offered by one able to do so was made in good faith.

The crowd thought nothing of this gift in public.
It was accepted as the solution to a problem and their day would go on as it would always.

The trains came the boarding lite went on and we all scamperd on our own personl way like the young woman almost at a run to get our own seat on our own train to our own destination in life.

I wondered what train the prosperous well garbed lady with purchases was on.
She had come into the city to shop.
She went out with the goods in her bags and the future of some unidentified young woman in her heart.

Of course if the claim were ligit she can call from Conneticut or New Jersey or upstate and find out from the Port Authority if this woman she befriended with US cash online ever succeded in her recoveries or not.

This is NY and it is also American.
The desolate and the dangerous and the greedy and the giving.
Always mindful of its good furtune and sallow past.

A bit of histroy thougth the damn irish would come up with but they didnt

2009-08-28T11:34:00.000-07:00

The Origins of The Kennedy Name

Some ideas from group members

Kennedy - O Cinneide, descendant of Cinneide (ceann means "head", eidigh means "ugly")

The name Kennedy has many variations and certainly CENNEDI is one. O'Kennedy, MacKennedy, Kenedy, O'Cinnkide are all variations. Many more are widly used.

Would KENNEDY possibly have come from "CENNEDI", like the name of the father of the Irish King, Brian Boru - born Brian Mac Cennedi (941-1014)? I had been pronouncing the "C" as an "S", but I wonder if perhaps it should be pronounced as a "K", the same as Celt is pronounced "Kelt".

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From the dust of antiquity descends the LOW LAND clan of Kennedy.

The blood line is form the "de Carrick" family. The de Carrick's were Celtic Princes and Lords of Galloway, who later became the Earls of Carrick in SW Scotland between 1100-1225 AD. The earldom of Carrick ceased in the family with heiress Marjorie de Carrick upon her marriage to Robert Bruce of Annandale in 1271. However the "KENKYNOL or CEANCINNEAL" was granted to Marjorie first cousin, Roland de Carrick before 1256. KENKYNOL is Gaelic for "Head of the Clan", the chief and can only be passed down in the male line according to Celtic Law. From KENKYNOL the name of Kenneth and Kennedy if derived, both mean "Chief of the Clan".

In the mid 1300's, John McKennedy appears in the history of sw Scotland. this Kennedy was captain of the Clan Mnuninnitrcasdubh, (people of the black feet; a reference to the clansmen wearing their fur brogues inside out) located in Kirkmichael Parrish, Ayershire. Kennedy fought valiantly in Carrick and Gallaway against the supporters of Edward Balial in 1346 AD.

Some researchers believe him to be a de Carrick who called himself Kennedy. Kennedy of Dunure son and heir was held hostage for King David II in 1357. Ten years later, he was acting as steward for the Carrick earldom. and he acquired the estate of Cassillis where the Kennedy's would rule for centuries in Ayrshire and Carrick, in Oct. 1372, King Robert II visited Ayer, and bestowed upon John Kennedy the KENKYNOL of the clan, with all privileges that Roland de Carrick held in 1256. With this royal charter, the chief of CLAN KENNEDY was permanently established.

Kennedy's son, Gilbert . Agnes Maxwell, the gt.grandaughter of King Robert II and then Gilbert's son James KENNEDY m. Princess Mary, dau. of King Robert III in 1405. With these two marriages the lineage of Kennedy became "consnguis royal" or that of the blood to the King.

"Twixt Wigtown and the Town of Ayr, Portpatrick and the cruives of Cree, no man need think for to bide there unless he court with KENNEDY."

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O'KENNEDY, Minnagh.

The eponymous ancestor of the O'Kennedys was Kennedy, nephew of Brian Boru, or Cinneide in Irish, the resultant surname being 0 Cinneide. They are thus a Dalcassian sept, and at first their territory was around Glenomra near Kilialoe, and their occupation is perpetuated by the name of the civil parish comprising that area, viz. Killokennedy, but pressure from the powerful O'Briens and MacNamaras caused them to cross the Shannon and settle in Upper and Lower Ormond. There they soon increased in power and importance, and from the eleventh to the sixteenth century they were lords of Ormond. The sept divided into three branches, the chiefs of which were distinguished by the epithets Don (brown), Fionn (fair) and Rua (red). The Four Masters record the martial exploits of many of these chiefs. According to Keating, St. Ruadhan of Lorrha was the special protector of the O'Kennedys of Ormond. A branch of the sept emigrated to Antrim about the year i6oo, and the name is found in that county now, though, no doubt, some of the Ulster Kennedys are of Scottish origin, for Kennedy is also a Scots name. Kennedy, indeed, is one of the commonest names in Ireland, being widely distributed over all the provinces, with a preponderance in Co. Tipperary : it is placed sixteenth in the statistical list of Irish surnames with an estimated present day population of some eighteen thousand persons.

Unlike most Irish surnames Kennedy has few synonyms in English : one, however, still found in Co. Leitrim is interesting, viz. Minnagh, i.e. Muimhneach-or the Munster man (cf. Donlevy-Ultagh). Kennedy became Quenedy in Spanish, for, like all the great Irish families, many of the sept found their way to the continent. Matthew Kennedy (1652-I735), who went to France after the capitulation of Limerick in 1691, was a notable literary figure in Paris : he was remarkable for his life-long enthusiasm for the Irish language. At home the O'Kennedys, though remaining Catholic, were not entirely submerged as a result of the successive conquests and confiscations of the seventeenth century : an Order of the Lord Lieutenant, dated 3oth March, I705, granting permission to a few selected papists to carry arms, included eight gentlemen of Co. Tipperary, and among them is John Kennedy of Polnorman. In more modern times the name has been less prominent than might be expected having regard to its numerical strength. It furnished sensational news in I779 through the famous abduction case of the two Miss Kennedys of Co. Waterford. In the same century Rev. John Kennedy, a Presbyterian minister, made a useful contribution to social history by keeping an interesting diary (I724-I730) describing his many duties in Ulster. Another author wag Patrick Kennedy (1801-1873) ; while, also in the field of literature, Patrick John Kenedy (1843-I806), was a wellknown Irish-American Catholic publisher. In our own day a brilliant lawyer, Hugh Kennedy (I879-I936), was first Chief justice of the Irish Free state.

from 'Irish Families, their names, Arms and origins' by Edward MacLysaght.

Crown Publishers Inc

I have contacted Crown Publishers - who only distribute the book. No trace can be found of Allen Figgis & Co Ltd who claim copyright.

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Connemara CradelSong

On the winds of the wind o'er the dark rolling deep
Angles are coming to watch o'er they sleep
Angles are comign to watch over tehee
so list to the wind coming over the sea

Here the wind blow love, hear the wind blow
Lean you head over and hear the wind blow

GOOD NIGHT SWEET PRINCE

From the rest of the irish
and so mad at the irish press for not giving the irish background to this long line of ancient peerage living on from a past and an ancestor not from the wonders of the new world.
jd

Ireland 2009 pg 107

2009-08-26T10:17:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 107

At 8 after 10 I have left the country of Ireland and now we are over the pure blue of the Atlantic Ocean.
Gone the coasts of Erinn as we passed out I think over the Burran south of Galway.
Bay and town and the last vestage of land the eye of a great gull its beak pointed in flight across the westbound sea.
I think this eye is a cairne.

The Shannon was crossed at its great lake Loch Derg I believe and to the north cliffs being made out that I thought might be Benbulben orBenGullion but that is in Doengal and theses clffs were probably Mohair.

I got the window seat by accident of love.
The young spoiled amrercan girl ocupying it wanted me to give her my seat so she could be with her boyfriend in the center.
She offered me 20 euros to move. I would not. tThn she offered me 40 euros.
I told her go to her friend and in the end she did as that passenger did not show up and they kissing and hugging side by side.
They are contented to be there together and I am moved to the window seat to get the goodby view of central Ireland.

The fluffy white loft of clouds are still there the just that covered Ireland as I came over in April
But now floating along up there
White luxury like little sheep delited for this milky protection side and on into the sky themselves ,alone or a group of them just like the Irish people.
The team and thd drifters .
The bogs stood out but not the mts and those to stand out sprawled from a center hub with their roads too.
We might have flown over Tara.
It was not recognizable as Delta 764 climbed serenely nortt along the Irish sea coast before it turned westwardacross what is probaly Meath and Leitrim.

Connact is big. It is the biggest and the province streaches all along the Shannon estuary to the sea.
The great stone fence landmarks hardly visable from the air.

The Islands off the coast drift out like puzzle peices waiting to be fitted in and the great yellow brown cut mountains of plowed fields now to bear a cut line of different sizes and cutouts throughout the landscape .
the biggest rectangles on a plumline.
The now mined bogs
Cutout by orderly markers.
I did not see these from the ground.

However would not have sold my chance to say goodbye to Erinn for all the 40 E or 50 E or any E at all.
The land being far more precious than the printed paper.

Nor so controlling of the greedy International mind and so useless a corrupted as to live off this spoiled blond american with pockets full of it to convert back into Dollars at NYC.

So hurt that, and angry that I would not give her her way that she could not sell me ,after all my recent loss of time and knowledge because of lack of the Euro.
And so for the 3 of us having distained the Euro for true values of life.
This her love a skinny blackhaired, blue eyes fellow with a dirty basebal cap and me
My final view of this land of my ancestors and my mothers birth a better view by far than she had at 10 in 1922 and Denis bringing down the 90 euros for the good sisters.
The duty of Shane his own good future with his unknown cousin much more valuable than this printed paper means of exchange and so all 3 of us got our way.
All 3 humans discovered the power of money and kept our own values.

I tried to call Denis re his channels- his wife- yesteday.
However Ericom doesnt know how much it cost to call the UK in coin or collect.
It says 50 cents a minute on this phone but it also says no calls without 1 euro so I will wait.
Denis will figure it out.

I spoiled his and his brothers goodbye wake as I leave never to retun But next year or so he may get Kathya nd Mary and Isabel more good use to them all here.
I will be gone with my rambling about Carrowkeel a nd quarter days and restarting the fairs.
Eire will survie.
She will proper in her own way Indian and Chinese ,Burmese and Paki, American and French tourist and of course, the Students.

The Republic has done well in only 90 years.
Roads built. Schools operating.
Goverment in disaray and wasetful that it is still funtioning.
The past is accepted and the future blowing onthe wind tangled light, swirling this way a nd aaht.
Hoepful and progressive.

Ireland is a nest and its people the fleglings.

Little hungry birds with open gap screaming to be fed by the great soaring parent sea bird.
The nest cannot be disturbed. All the little nests within the island.

It is sad for me to leave this island of saints and sinners and scholars as well.
Poets and engineers, farmers and egotists and sailors.
Dreamers who are soldiers and camp followers.

Their mentor the soverenty of Ireland which they may or may not recognize. This Queen of the sea her body shouded in the mossy green mantle.
Her moutains purple and ever present in the distant folds always to be scanned for carns and ancient monuments.

Her seas forgotten and her words unrecognizable as you pass this by on the roadsign timapeal as no one speaks the Gaelic but they do the English .
This speech is the gaelic inflection slurring the gaelic idea.

Its childen express this instinctively like the fledgling in the nest ever pure every together ever hppeful and laughing into t he future.

They are forgotten but they survive and slowly this will suddenly flower into one country again ,one people ,the Irish .
Not by birds of prey that they are, and the long necked stone with the eye pointed out to the ocean and that this Gael itself, son of Cean or the head.

The sea the forgotten surrounding sea.
And so Slan abar Erireann. Beanactha ort and an ferr a tu.

And so this jouranl of a Travaler ends as this bird of the modern world points its long neck westbound under Captain Metcalf steady in her course as the Burren stone points to the future or the new world.
Land of the emigrant and the tired and the poor and the down troden and I lift up my lamp beside the golden shore.

As the woters of the Abair Sionann are in this nestles gold jar awaiting this testof their solid kernels sent to the bottom of the golden water of Carrick on Shannon so too we return to our own part of our own future and our own nest.

What part of America are you from?

Why did you come to Ireland?

Which way is Ireland?

And so ceann cursa.

judi Donenelly
copryright
3 june 2009

Ieland 2009 pg 106

2009-08-26T10:16:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 106

Poor Denis must be wondering if I am dead or not by now.
Dont want to try andcall him until go thew security.
The buena nada airport is shut down at 8 PM.

All gone, No check in .No baggage. Half the bars and food shops shut down because of it and the Dublin Buses all of the road.
It is a form of self distrcution.

Ajaniotr got me pointed up the stairs to the fast food deck, floor 3.
Not to worry I told him I was living rough.

All the students are here at Starbucks sitting around in soft chairs.
They stay up all night anyway.
McDs is open 24 hours. Good for them.

I think it is just plain cruelity for the international to shut down their faclities in Ireland befoe it even gets dark?

It is the only place closed at night in Ireland except Leinster House.
And thd sheep are stil grazing.

Went down on the 11.30 to I though Rosslare Port.
However some jerk was on board probably some goverment spy for the FF. Forgot what he called himself.

This guy is jelous that I have a bus pass as a senior and he has paid rates Thought he should have it nobody else but of course his friends and reltives.
The Irish are greedy and selfish.

They remind me ofa lot of US Republicans.
All for me and mad as hell if anybody else gets more crumbs than they do.

Anyway he distracted me and I got off 2 stops befoe the damn EuroPort and didnt know it and thought to walk up but never did as the bay to far.

We final found out when the 4.30 didnt show up back to Dub.That this stop was Wiklow City and came at 5.00 PM.
So I missed the big ferry port to France after all that.
My fault half way for being distracted.
Amusing this old fart instead of watching out for myself.

There is one guarantee about this bunch.
No matter where they are they would never lift a finger to hauls someything for you.They are entirleya do it yourself crowd.
Its a dead giveawy as to their uselessness.

The library goofed up this AM giving me only 1/2 hour too, not 55 minutes.
More Eriecom interference and abuse.
However I was not able to get a copy email of to sheila to phone Denis on the train as couldnt find her under H or S.
I guess it may be under Denis.

Than like a fool I put a damn euro in the bus machine for the 10 minutes and that mouse wouldnt work and then the thing wouldnt send and finaly the gs was working and this machine cut out .
So poor D sent all the way to the westside looking for me to say goodby.

But I am glad I went on to Laigean and viewed that coastal region.

I have a pretty good fix on the geography of the island now and have absorbed a lot in the 2 months both good and bad.

It was a worthwhile trip except for the bout with the Daft people.
Perhaps we can get Orfig Failte to make a related checked out list of accomidations, shared and rooms for us seniors on fixed incomes
so we can spend a week here and a week there at rates we can afford and be assured of not being treated unequally as this service did.
As with the hostels, B,& Bs and hotels they should be regulated to inspection lists
to be sure to preform well a nd do not violate any law in this country regarding shelters.
It would be helful too,to have the Pub Link for all the small stops on the roads where the old system still prevailed and welcomed visitrs and bringers of news from the rest of Irealnd or the great outside world.

The night was spent amongh some shady charathers hanging out upthere and having been into the stong drink the three of them abttu 30 were eastern Europeans some gong home i guess.
They cant speak English so the Polish schools as proficient as they are in their past dont teach it as a language of business.
Probably Russian is taught or German.
It is too far west for them. The eatern Europeans love their territory and coutries out there as wel lthey should.

I was able to lie down for about two hours after the central restarant got done cleaning about 2 am.
Around 4 I was up and ready to stay up.
I got some warm water for tea at the toilets and washed up a bit.
It got lite at 5 and that made me more restless.
I took the exscalators down from the third floor restarants to the loading floor.
Delta was still closed asthe other two US lines.
However the French adn German and Air Lingus and other European lines were opening their kiosks and their lines of travelers were going in to security with their electronic issued boarding passes.

I sat on my case in front ofthe Delta kiosk but they never came in.
I finally asked the French when they came.
They said they tought about 6. I waited more. at 6 no one came. At 7 someone fianaly showed up a half hour after Continental next them. i said to the lady where the heck have you been ?
She did not think iIwas respectful enough of their unionized arrival but I told her all the European lines were working at dawn and the early bird catches the worm.
She directed me to the just opening passport check line out in the lobby.
Stiil had to wait till they set up a maze of yellow police line streamers for about half an hour.
I finally went over to the Delta check in podium where there were 4 workers standing around talking to each other to see if could get the bags on.

No. had to wait again sitting there onthe bags while they set ups some damn computer and talked.

Finally one of the ladies there said where are you goign. I said US on Delta What the hell did she think I was in their line for?

Let me have your passport. Which one says I big smart mouth. I have the Irish or the American.
Oh says she dont use the Irish one they will stop you and never let you in the US .Give me your US one.

They're that far gone I commented.
She said yes it was very hard for a tourist or foreigner to get into the US just now.
The exchange has been consistantly favorable to the us dollar being 35 or so cents less than the ot'buy american' policy devaluting the dollar to persuade ntions in crisis to buy the only thing mdde in the US armanents, tanks, guns ,amo ,and airoplanes at a billion or so. We dont yet sell 'the bomb'just littel bunker bustera dncluster fire bombs.
She and two men ran my passport numbers in their computer and I guess I am not ona watch list so I was cleared and a boarding pass issued which I took to the baggage and got the bags checked. Fianlly at the last minute.

I think Delta processes business tickets first so I was just so conspucious as to embarrass them sitting there on my old red bag alongside their 40 feet of police line tapes.

I than got throug the maze to the end where an Irish was looking at me with interest in his eyes like I hope you make it.
I went to duck under the police tape as it went about 50 yard beyond his door to the boarding place, or security I guess.
At this point
he stopped me said go the right way- a bit of a brough I guess he was afraid I would set of an alarm escaping the obstruction.

However I passed throuh his door without a slan as I did the bus driver who broght me in the previous night,
and finaly found out which way to go to find the security check point.
Sailed through that but they have a customs inspection further on which all boarders have to have their carry on luggage looked at and delclare if they bought anything in Irleland. This is freetrade.

This was another obstruction and invasive process and asked the purpose of it.
A stand by Irish said to assist me in passing customs in the US. They gave everybody a delcaration slip to fill out that you presented to customs that you have been inspected before boarding and cleared.

The/Delta boarding area was normal.
I had a cup of tea from the restrooms and was relieved to just sit there for 20 minutes after the wild night withthe friends of eastern europe mcDs road warriors and the cleaning staff.

I think I had scone or something left over and ate that.
We old ladies never travel without coffe, tea sugar, a knife fork and spoon, and some thing to eat besides potato chips.

judi donnelly
copyright
16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 105

2009-08-26T10:14:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 105

At RossLair on the St Georges Quay abouu 2 blocks from the train station, which is where the bus stops one of the good old boys spys was riding on the bus with me out and seems upset that I am on the free senior bus pass.
Again I am begruged that not as a senior but because I paid taxes in America not Great Britain or Ireland.
He saw the pass as a rewrd for paying taxes not for growing old or for being a ciizen of the country.
They really hate Americans for all the investment money that county has poured in to Ireland and the brishish over the past century like beggar birds out for the soaring eagle to fill the beaks with more.
This port leaves however has afew birds and a tourist bord on up the quay.
About 2 klms at the other end to far to walk.

I got what I wanted in seeing the N 11 countryside down ,Ferns, Wicklow ,Slane.
Interestingly enough there is a Donnelly mini bus rental Co. here in the Laigen.
The county along the way down is quite prosperous. Lucky compared to the rest of this provence.
There are very few sheep and cattle about inthe fields but a sense of wellness amd some old notcoverd desidious woods natural not planted starting about half way down.

The timpeall are nice along the way ArkLow and EnnisCourthy both nice.
Leinster towns down.
I am sorry Denis and his brother got stood up I wll have to eat crow for that slight However I did try with the email and that failed.

I suppose I could try the cell # and see if it worked. It wont.
Eireann is a lost 1920 service and like ATT greedy and demanding and has made millions screwing people on the computer and utilities with the government contracts and building big useless buildings.

It is nice here.
I did see some geese on the waydown while in a river.
None of the old famous Irish rivers are signed so you dont know which one you are passing over except of course the filthy Liffy river.

The old Gael kept the rives clean and they were full of fish .
No fish would survive inthe polluted chemical mix in our water today.

I will go back up on the 4.30
Arrive at Dublin airport at 8 PM .
Hopefully check the baggage and be rid of it.

I cant figure out if these are 2 pieces or what and if the paper is the check in pass or not.

Lingus is better shape than Delta now owned by North Western.
I dont see a Spar in walking distance but should go up and see so I dont arrive u at Dublin up there with nada to eat.

There is a Dunns right across the street from the train .
Lets go back and a park right across th street.
Have a Key here but enough of the boat stuff.

Nothing to see Cannot be found not utilitarian or informational.

I am not aware that I did not get off the bus at the last stop Rosslaree but at Wicklow town.
This again was the fault of my sort of enghlish style or short scotish style spy who advised me tog et of there.
I found this out after when the 4.30 did not show up and that was because it leaves Rosslaree at 4.30- and gets to Wicklow town at 5.00 .He knew that. Little devil. And I was dumb enough to listen to him.
I should have thrown my American weight around an asked the driver is this the Europort.
But after two months in Eire I am alraedy acting like a native. Shy, humble andtrusting the wrong people.

He told me his name and apoligised that it was not an Irish name.
I dont remeber it.
Never did learn to remeber names a ww2 mental block. The less you remember the safer you are at 3 through 8 years of age.
Not good for the working world however.
But hard as I try ,they come and they go.

judi donnelly
copyright
16 june 2009

Ireland 2--0 pg 104

2009-08-26T10:12:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 104

all is well this morning June 1 my last bank Holiday in Eireann.
the good sisterS did not put me out to wander the streets this evening and will
Best for me to run upON the 5.00.
I stll have to be sure can get to the irport.
I should be Ok there.
So I am good to go.

Went over to theCapuchin Center and Bow St and Joan the nurse was onthe srving line a gave me my great Irish chicken with boiled potatos and greens and a nice, I think it was apple and canned great fruit pudding.
VVery good.
The Irish make a pudding with a fruit mixed in it and the fruit in the bowl and the puddign atop.
A lot like our american jello with fruit.
It is very good.
I told Joan she should get the golden nurse award for her work there.
the men have great respect for her and I read inthe papers she was planing a walk from Killdair to Dublin for the homesess.
A very dedicted Irish lady.
All the Capuchins need are good food well cooked.
They believe in life these Fransicans.

Yesterday took the Luas ride down to the south terminal at Tamlach not Tallaght.
I have no idea where the English get the 'T's from and the final 'T'.
Misleads the entire tourist population as to the word and its meaning.
The Tamlach .
The Tan was a name of agroup of military.
An army The Tan was the army.

I fogot what Tam is exactly but it is in the dictionarly
Tamlach would be the little Tam on the lake of the Tam.
[Tam means dream] Dream by the loch]
There is a hospital there Tamlach.
So it may be a healing place for the wounded of the Army.

I will let uyou know.

Right now everything is packed but the cloths I have on ,my nighty and this journal to ride the Luas and the 41 bus up to the Airport.

Here in Dublin 2 city buses go up the 41 the Drumcondra and the 16A through every place on earth.
But the fare is 2.40 as compared to the Airlink 6 Euros charge.
Some of the big hostels like Paddys Tours are advertising 15 Euros a night free airport trip.
Which is well worth it for students and seniors alike.

I dont heve the 15 Euros for Paddy too but he has tours all over Ireland including the north to Giants Causway and seems reasonalbe but some with luxury stops and luxury foods and luxury hotels which I guess his clients want.
Its his busniss.
The Burran tour from Galway was 16 Euros and the tours from Cork to Kerry are about the same.
The Dublin s 'Hop on Hop off 'is good for 24 hours.
13 Europs to the seniors and the students which is fair.
It goes all over the famous city.

Phoenex Park, Kilmainham, Glassnevin cemetary.
The Castle the Butonic Gardens and on and on.
I think it goes down to the Grand Canal as well.

So Dublin is not that expensive for a stay of a week at either one of th eGardner St hostels or one of the Rick Steves off site hotels 39 to 59 a night and teh Bord Fialte is well schooled in the tours and the sites in every district of the country.
Usually with in reach of the public transit points and full like the American rest stops ont he Parkways, of booklets and places to see, things to do, and good food and local events.

Irelands M roads ,straight ugly things spitting up the lovely countryside into squares. UGH!

The rest is in better shape and along road with the confusing timpealls and the road to Dublin, the road to Derry, the road to Cork ,the road to Bealfeast and Limeric.
And the roads running off of them to lesser known villages and towns.

I dont thihk there is a classification of a settlement here in Ireland that could be called a village anymore, a Clachan -group of mostly houses and cottages off the roadside.

There are vestages of camps like Armagh .
And vestages of farm communities built up on a straight sort of line at a crossroad now the timpeall roundabouts where the roads converge.

These crossroads ar now subdivisions of great areas of land and now having factoys ,petrol stations ,and so forth running about the road to the timpeall and than another brink on the usually 4 roads converging at the roundabout.

You must remember as you go round you are leanng to the left not the right as otherwise you will miss your road ,screw up the flowing traffic who will mightliy let you know how stupid you are.
Laying on the horn screaming out the windows.
It is the Italian Influence but I know not if that is the latent relgion or some ancient cross breeding.
They drive like the Italians.
I did not try it.

The best driveres are the big semis.
Mostly youngish men.
The bus drivers mostly youngish men 27-37.
Family types and those zipping by occasionally in well heeled motor home rigs I take to be ex Travelers who had the state of the art long ago inthe little red horse drasawn rigs.
No childs peer out their motor homes rins.
Sedate 40 ish style people and sometimes a teen or 2 in the dining seat sernely being driven along by their in charge parents.

Not like American they do not seem to be using these Caravan rigs to earn a livng.
No bards. No trailers of goods tacked on headed for the flea markets.

They seem to congreagate in these rigs at various national sporting events and races and are not free flowing with information as are the farmers and street Irish.
By the street Irish I mean those well settled in a community who know everyone and everthing about the place and are very happy to find out just who you are ,why you are there, where you are staying and anything else of interest.
Most of them claim to have kin in America.
I think most of them have kin in the defense forces myself.
However they are good helpful and well directed people.

I get sick of the where are you from from both Irish groups and tourist alike.
I have given this state inthe midwest more free publicity than allthe big governors trips to promote businessa nd investment.
Most of the Iriris have never heard of the middle ameican places.
They can get Chicago and thats as close to their old gold field of Calif or the big ranches settled by railroad Irish relatives gone of and waked some century or more ago.

The Indians leave you alone.
They could care less where you are from only that you are in their store to buy somethoing expensive.
They sell a lot of 60 cent sausages and French pastry and rolls and sanwich meats and newspapers.

The Irish buying the newpapers.
The French students buying the French breads and the sandwich meats and the homeless Irish and immigrants buying the saugage and potatos.

These potato wedges are well worth their weight in gold and very tasty the way the Irish slice and cook them.
They cannnot be found in American as they are a diffent type of spud those grown on the island being used.
A product as yet not discovered on export.

The tourists go to the restarant and the Pubs with signs out for 8.95 breakfast or only 10.95 lunch and God only know where the government employees go for the diner hour, half 12 till 2 when everything is closed.
The Irish Life building off Abby sports a government cafeteria but I think you have to buy a chair there to sit down and the toilets are fettered with a coin box on the mall floor.

You have to remember that if you expect to get anything done and of course the Dial and the Taoisech are totally off limits.

I do believe Parliament in London is accessible as is the US Congress but the Dail is much to precious to be exposed to their possibly violent constituants, or disgruntled rate payers or noisy and nosy americans.
It is none of their business what important work goes on in the Dail.
It is only their business to collect money and funds for projects as the EU NDP programs as well .

The nest must be secure from other birds.
Fly by and local birds who have their own nest and the Gardai ,as it protects justice and the courts ,protects the Dail and th general elected government from association with their own people or any others.

However they do put out about 50 pounds of paper booklets about their accomplishements which outline the proceedures to access anything connected with the government.

This little island that has suffered so much death and tragedy and subjection over self govenment over centuries of a thousnd years has now after that glorios Rising and the Proclamation and the Civli War over self govenment manged to exclude the elite from the People of Ireland and in the same way the former Viceroys of London excluded themselves from the big house vs the school vs the parliament and fron door of the privledged.

The British system prevails politically, justice wise, ecomomical land use, language use, An Uisce, police wise ,and the American investment prevails in the corporate structue of American and the food brand men of American and the layout of communites on the new made glass structures . All now 'To Let'.

I will go off tomorrow if I make it to the Busras and can get my ticket down to the Europort at Rosslaree on the tip of Leinster throu the Wicklow Mountains I hope, and along the Irish Sea and St Georges Channel and than back up I hope ,dirctly to the airport terminal at 9 where I hope ,can get thew security ,spend the long hours of the night and board the flight to JFK.

And so the 'Slainte ort agus ferr go Eireann 2009' .

judi donnelly
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Ireland 2009 pg 103

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Ireland 2009 pg 103

I went of Ok to the Irish Mass this AM but not many there but the old folk and the young who have been forced to learntheGaelic in shcool are not interested in either the deValera plan to save the speech or the message of the Spirit.

No Church perks out to them.
The Church needs to modify much of its middle age reasoning to reach them and talk about life not death.

The young are interssted in living not dying on some cross to save mankind.
Nor are they interested in fish style reproduction with all thelittel fry sent on the clouds to be immediately eaten by the larger fish and passing preditory birds.

10 children In Ireland are definatly OUT OUT OUT!
Male and female alike.

He will disapear into a more sexually safe contry . Or claim the prosoperous woman sas a better mate and she will simply lay the poor babe out on the neighbors family or church to go on her way to making another unwanted unloved and uncared for with a new and hopelfully more reliable man.

The young also want no part of mumbling memorized prayers over and over. They seek subsatance and understanding.

As I tried to follow some of the Irish reading and I can now read it world by word not jiberish even though I do not know the meaning of the sentance Words are now familir and some have meaning for me.

My mind remembers them however in a complete symbol for Agus is to me just that.
In Irish speech it is not regonizeable as Agus but some slirred diction of maybe half a world not recognisable to the reader.

The Irish do slur their words. Abriviate them and run them together in both languages.
They are lazy speakers as well as being verbose and colorful in developing a point.
What is written in clear symbols is not spoken in clear pronounciation of those symbols.
However the Irish used by the Fransican Church is a readable form of Irish devoid of thousands of influxive 'h's dropped in the middle and the end and the beginning of every word like Cara being Chara a friend is a friend only if you can read it as such.

And when a ca ,ka becomes ch, sha who know were such a word of 4 symbols can end with the baggage of pronunciation. Guess.
Qu is aslo ca or Ke or in last Leitrim Irish KEY we now have Loch Key not the old Loch Ce
Annals and so the Quay becomes the Key to unlock the door of Mabh or was it Maba.

It was good the Ma old Irissh is mcuh more valuable than the modern irish being taught inthe Irish schools with all its deflection and declension and grammer rules and several meanings
Spelling changes of 6 tences or more.
Ata it is Ba it was.
Great simple words uncongagated verbs to go with a simple name and Viola we have Communication good enough toget us thrown out of the Casiddy
Clann .
The maybe modern Irish .

It would be good if Irish could be included some of the language courses of the US students without the grammer, the phrase translation, and the bothar Bui and the Toim a place along the railline.

Maps of them is place run along the N road covered and Long Port of the English becomes Long Fort of the Irish.
This fort at the port but there is no Loch at Long Fort to create a ce or a quay or a dock or a port.
It is perhaps the little canal going out there from Dublin Grand Canal or for the Erne/ Shannon locks and these are the steel black and white painted loch bars out there to prove the lochs did exist.
Just as they still raise and lower the water at Panama and Port Weller in Canada.

The Canal and the waterways are a great way for some to explore Iresland not in a kyak but a house raft like Tom Sawyer and Jim had.
Ireland the mighty myth to for this canal is the east to the Shannon eastuary water to Devinish island or soeth to Limerck or perhaps even west to Galway town.

The packers are out in Meath and West Meath walking the fields.
Sitting in the fields talking.
I dont know if with or without Irish guides.

They have the freedom of Ireland in there young feet with the light backpacks of a zippered jacket for wind. ATM card ,Passport
A cell phone and a money bag 3 pocketed for this jacket and a few clean shirts and sox and perhaps a rain jacket.
They are international.

The rest of us lumber round with purses and shoulder bags and train tickets and luggage and accomidation needs , or friend to take up up river away in their craft half not bearing any flag at all and a half with a well worn torn and faded tricolor.
The checkered thing above.

judi donnelly
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Ireland 2009 pg 102

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Ireland 2009 pg 102

Still no guarantees of shelter on the other end.
Not looking forward to that hassle but NYC sometimes sort of does things with panache.
Nothing perturbs them.
Not like Chi where you get the, how we are going to figure this out but I dont know how.
However in Chi the black community usually has a few old guys hanging around who know the city inside and out and as soon as they figure out they cant sell you this inforamtion they just where to go and how to get there hotels to shelters.
Maybe furtunately this will occur just after a bank holiday here so the returning to work will hopefully have lost track of the Polish at the weekend and the run out.
Doubt will be preaceful and unnoticed.

A few ladies here from London.
Dont know to the helpers put out byMI5 keeping track of every pin that drops on this Island.
One is a black lady says shes here for ajob.
The other is a hippy type with boots and outfit.

They are worried I am leaving shortly and when.
I told them I am leaving on Election Day.
The goverenment here has a copy of the ticket as does the US Embassy and my need for shelter for the 3 weeks and their desire to screw that up.
Dont know wht interst the English from London would have except the problems of Ireland coming up in the by election or because of a reaction against a beating in Colerain on the Bann alledgeded to the UDA which still refuses to disband and canot control their people.

The north is peaceful and sucessful except for their diehards ner do well malitia hangers on.

But I think the Briths Army Command in barrach up there has tendancy to provoke some of these violences and distructive confrontations in the hope of getting their men and lorrys back on the streets.
Armys get bored and restless with out action and missions and the Queen would be wise to withdraw the permanent mission to England.

Its mission in Ulster is completeed now and the NIPS will call them if the situation becoem so volitaile that they cannot handle it.

Plus in the Norht the US loves the big notariety of being helper and peace maker amonst the Churchs and repeat evey little incident ,drunk or sober, as an international breaking news event needing the great nations intervention and diplomacy to alliviate for the moment.

The South, on the other hand run for cover not wanting a bit of a role in the North at all except as to the Gardai special mission to keepthe retired IRA out of the South.
I dont know what they expect these now 60+ year old men to do to the sheep.

Most of them are now on pension and playing with their grandkids and are off tp Austraila or the Bronx to hide out for the rest of their hopefully natural lives.

The UDA people however not giving an inch are happily camped out on the northen hills clinging to the politics of 1900 AD and their front claim to goodness and religious truth.
They have a big following in America as the this doctrine of the perfect Christ, the sinful man, and the army of Christ Himself appearing to save someone.
I think ,the true believers themselves ,the army of God.

Meanwhile the old Catholics all think prayer will cause this same Christ to listen to his mother Mary and somehow relieve mankind of the burdon of being born.
All but the Fransican Capuchins who believe in food to obtain enlightment and hence the hunrgry are fed and the Mass is said in Irish.

some of O Ds people of Colum cille.

He the one who stold the book, started a war ,reputed the war and founded Iona on that island as his punishment for Sin.

The order did however reamain in this princely institution of practical applicatons on Earth.

They are still running around in their brown smocks with rope belt not ashamed to be stylish in the modern world.
These are of the wool too I believe. Warm and practical garments. judi donnelly
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Ireland 2009 pg 101

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Ireland 2009 pg 101

About 5 klms out of Cortober [Heron Water] or now know as Carrick on Shannon Rock at the Shannon standign gingerly in the reed was a nice young heron. Alone.
Our Aife of old Irelands famous spirt bird.

I was excited to see her a first grey blue observed in all of Erin and called her to attention of fellow passengers. But no one cared.
None of the train riders or forieners pay much attention to the country side.
They dont observe the bogs ,or the passing fields ,or the half cut brush, or the new bungalows, or the cattle ,or the sheep.
These are boring to them.
Their life support system.

The rail interestingly recites a running message of ports of call in both english and irish and the signs all depict the Irish name of the place which is helpful in giving it meaning completely disguised in
the English.

Places like 'Bothar Bui' which means road to victory now called Enfield.
A Muillesann Cerr which in the english becaem Mullingar.
the old word being Muileann Cerr. I must look it up.

The famous Maynooth is actually Magh Nuad ,Plain of Nuada.
I think our famous warrior of the Danann era
The Danann -place of the song.

Muile being Moyle or Mol like St Moling-beloved of Mola Muile.
Who is Muile.
Teh muileann is the mill cear is a crossbeam.
Mullingar ,the crossbeam of the mill.

Tuathal Teachmar broght the watermill to Ireland when he retruned to Tara Hill in 79 Ad .
25 years of age ,and took back his natural princly crown from the judges of Moran .
A wise a progressive prince born in trouble, acceptable by his people to the right to rule.

The tourist of Luas is interesting in that after they get on the train they stand inthe doorway platform instead of moving back in the car which is standing room only.
Hence no one can get on or off without moving them off the train so you can negociate the stop.
I think they are afraid of getting lost in this car or something.

The Irish on the other hand negocaiate their way to the car center. Disconserned at all that the next stop will be missed and than they pop off suddenly just as the trains stops .
Impatient to hit the electronic door button to open the doors and speedily exit the vehicle headed quickly in the right direction .
Never confused as to whether to go left or right.

All the Irish boys are in good shape and all the Irish girls are overweight excpet a few of teh mothers who have been streamed down chasing the offspring.
Lovely blue eyed curly topped blonds scampering before the crowd in the Malls not at all conserned that the child napper may be just before theie head to gather up their little bodies and run off to sell them on into the sex trades of the world.
They are a prize because of the nordic looks .

I though the train people might be interested in my bird citing
However the information employee announced that there were whole herds of these foul on another train route.
I didnt catch whicc one.

About like announcing in Nevada or Utah that there was a blotted dead cow by he highway.
No big deal.
That is common.
There are lots of these.

the bus has an Eireann that goes to the airport and this info there says I can use my pass to go up there.
But not from Dublin only from the south port of Rosslare, the Europortfrom France.
So will try it. Better than the 41.
If can get the ticket well be all set to go.

I dont need the ticket like the train with the senior pass.
Just get in line on the dock show the driver your pass and take a seat. Good for us old folks.

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 100

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Ireland 2009 pg 100

Carrick on Shannon is well and healthy and rich.
The town is well kept and houses about 2 milllion cruisers belonging to the elite Irish, mostly of Dublin.

The town is well kept , friendly and happy in addition to the Yatch Club bears a new park just at the N 4 entry road from the station put up this year in memory top Paddy McDermott by the Rosscommon town Counsil as his favorte spot.

I got a bottle of Holy water there [river water] and did find a few places well worth crawling into the back of to sleep after dark.

However it doesnt get dark till midnight now that it is warm enough to sleep out and you would have to be out by 5 when the dogs would be out sniffing the brush and would discover you and let out a howl.
These with the nose of a space preditor drone can hone in on anything living or dead.

I found a nice computer place who gave me a disk and the cafe said for 3 euros he would tanspose my Donnelly posts from Donnelly.org to the disk to give to the Natioanl before I leave.

However we coudnt lift the material as it is on the g mail account each page to be opened and copied and I couldnt remember my g mail password for the life of me. So lost that opportunity.
They let me keep the disk but would never get it off in Dublin.

The students should do it for me but they are ,like the newspapers, protected by the receptionist and the guard.

Not like the TD prison under the Gardai care.
The people really should haev some access to the secret represntatives a whole 3 page herd of them inthe phone book sporting Irish and English names and a phone # but no email or post mail and no access to the Dial sessions
without an invatation.

Even the tourist afre agast at the governement operating in secret disaray from its Leinster prison home. And Kinsale surroundied by old Civlized Ireland and the French Embassy.

Another Donnelly poped up there yestersday working a the desk as I was looking for the unavalilable Chief Herald who comes to the office periodicly during the year but no one know when.

Except perhaps his wife or girl friend.

I left a message and email with the secretary seeking tehe meaning of the Red Dand on the Oneill /Donnelly coat of arms .
Perhaps in 6 months will get a reply along with What I want toknow and why and where am I from.

This am the sisters opened the kitchen 15 minutes late so bearly had time to grab a cup o coffee , 2 shices of jam and bread to head for the Luas to make the 9.05 Sligo train on track 3 to get here.
Arrived at Connelly[ Conghaile] chief of the Cong at 8.45 and sure as clock work the line tickets was full of american tourists wanting to ride and pay the fare about Ireland.
Americans do get up early farmers that they are and are out of the hotels as soon as they enmty the hot water tanks of their showers.

The weather is beautiful some 75 about 20
c today.

I am about 10 klms south of Carrowkeel
graveyard an N 4 and just north of the Boyle Abby.

There is a great deal of history here in Leitrim.
The ancient home ofthe O Rourkes who became famous with the affair of Derbforgilla who ran of with Murchad the Chief of Leinster who then caused the downfall of Ireland with his running off to the continent to defeat his fellow princes in Ireland and get back his province.

She went home to her husband O Rourke and being here I see no reason she left in the firt place this being one of the best territories in central Ireland.

The ride coming up from Mullingar revealed a great plain , wide and fertile and fields in large forest areas and bog areas
south of the canal and rail line.

Not a lot of sheep and the herds black faced not the delicate little lambs of the west.
Cattle here are moost common.
This is cow country and these mixed black brown.
An assortment to the herd not pure bred stock like the cattle in Bregia.

There is a diversity of livestock throughout Ireland but not of reed and plant.
The ferze or quince as it is called in north donegal grews profusly as does a slim red weed of bog stuff which indicates a bog is about to rise.

The bog itself is black and covered with masses of bloated brown plants which is in reality Heather which ,in August will turn a royal purple for what purpose unknown.

It is 2.20 so must go on up the Station Rd as not to miss the 3.45 back to Dublin.
The people who live here in this quayside a loch rush is in the river.
I have heard nothing of salmon.

There are no roans but the begger swans sail in about the reeds polking their long necks into the deep to get up dobs of food.

They come to you at great ease with a gentle look in the eyes expecting you useless Homos will throw them a morsal from the store.
They are domestic swans not wild like used to like the gull and pigeons begging your lunch for themselves and sail away without a thank you at all as do the humans of the food center after receiving the free Church meal.
It is their right of survivalas is the right of these bird.

There are a few birds here. Pretty little things.
I cannot identify them having seen nothing but the rook and pigeons in Ireland.

There are no rooks here but large flocks of blackbirds or nothing in the field grass.

Some young man ewas out cleaning a yatch and he told me the price was 40,000.00 for a used one or 200,000.00 for new craft.
These are mostly gentlemen cruisers.

So the port above is worth probalby about 2 or 3 million in moored craft.
I did not ask the cost of a slip.

Most of the boats are owened by Dubliners.

Probably a lotof the corrupt and useless government officials who cannot be found while young people sit on the bridges of the Liffy with the paper cups staring from beneith the blanket and old bundled women rest outside the Church gates mumbling supplications to passersby for a Euro or 2.
These I suspect to pay the feeding centers for their daily meal.
I know not if the are citizens or not.
The ladies look n either near eastern or Spanish and the young look Amaerican or French.

Displaced students but some could be Irish.
The Irish tend not to beg but to set up the giuitar or flute or some other musical show with the instrament case helping to collect their euros.

The rest often set up a fruit stall at the markets on the street corners and if this are rich enough to have access to a van a sandwich and sausage or fish and pottalo best for something like 5 E.

The rest are either employed in fairly well paid jobs Living failry well now too being in gated and fettered apts.

Now young men well dressed in business suits and the girls in black tights clicking heels and short skirts showing their unobtainable wares.

The Gardai zip about in its white suburban style cars confident in their mission and preformance.
The lawyers bound up and down the 4 courts block ,robes flying ,their white starched collars loosed and bobbing about
Their almost shocked faces not sure if they preformed well or badly in theCourts.

All the Pubs are old Irish order and all the solicitors are old Irish names.
I dont yet know who owns the sheep.
It could be agra business or foriegners nowaday.

I better get over the bridge now.

The water sample in the Gold Blend coffee jar is just that.
This Am yellow water from the Sionann a bog oil?
Ther are brown solid flecks now settled to the bottom looking like coffee grains but a mental of some sort.
It needs to be tested to see whats in it.
Have dubed it Holy Water and will haul it home to American to study the content and analize what harm the Rebublic and the boast and the greed bent have done to a famous ancient waterway as it has succeeded in doing all over teh world.

The birds are starving from the cutting of the grasses before it goes to seed as it looks nice.

The waters of the world are undrinkable. The fish farmed and domesticated. Teh boats rusted inthe harbor.

The stores full of cotton fabiric.
No garden produce. Mo garen in sight.
The money is the thing. Just keep pockets full of money -nothing else. Perhaps a small bottle of wine to sleep or make love.

judi donnelly
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Ireland 2009 pg 99

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I dont feel like writing this morning the 27 or 28 or maybe the 29th of May. I'll have to look.
I went of to Kildare once more to see if could find the meaning of the Red Hand on the Donnelly and O Neill Coat of Arms and a few tribes elsewhere,septs and clanns of this chief of the name and king of Ailec.

But geneology does not have this. The Chief Herald at 2 Kildare still controls that.
However he was not in that day so took out the microfilm MS 93 from Hayes People Index and found a good line of the Donnellys from Henry 8ths time down to about 1790 or so.
The rebellion ends this line record from Arthur.
This was a prodistant line from 1700, with a lease from Caulfield for Dredalt and a marriage by Hugh m Terrance O Donnelly to Louise De Butts daughter of a French Huegenot physician who had come to Ireland with the army of William 3 and Mary.

There son Arthur was born in 1722 at Blackwatertown.

He married Margaret Mahon of Rosscommon, her dad an Esquire and they had 3 children.
John Donnelly of Blackwatertown who was born in October 1770 and died 1 October 1835.
He had 2 sisters, Mary
Anne who did not marry and Margaret who married William Johnston of Armagh Esq.

No children noted but Johnstons are still there in Armagh Town running their shop and bakery.

John married Rebecca, the daughter of the Reverend John Young of Armagh Ballinburough and a son was born Arthur Young Esq. who with Sofie the daughter of Michael Heogarty produced John Michael Donnelly and Henrietta Donnelly and so the entry ends.

That being noted in the record by Henry 8ths English people this the 1700s because this was probably the line of the Chief of the Name that being the head honcho of the Donnelly clann of Bally Donnelly and Gortcharan and of course the acquisition of a prodistant English connection by Hugh[Aod] to the church of Ireland prodistant faith and by intermarrage with these people.

Although this state of Chief and Marshall are noted now the last notation for those old Gaelic designations being put to
Patrick Modar Brofe O Donnelly
the child of a daughter of Henry O Neill and father of Terrance or Turlough [tower of the loch] O Donnelly who was made High Sheriff of Tyrone by Tir Connell.

His son on becoming a prodestant and marrying a french girl no longer retained these titles and privileges but was subject to English lordship and English law and Engish religion.
Why A mystery of history.
Pronti may have some records on it.

On the other end we find the Gilla connection going back to
Domnall, King of Ailec ,our Donnelly of 900 AD or so and brother to Niall.
These children both sons of Aed Findlia [fire ofthe white stone] King of all Ireland who died naturally in 879 AD.

Domnalls line coming down from Eocaid or Eathach or Echdach [horse inheritance] Chief of the Fir Droma Laigean [leinster]
gilla Meic Liacs tribe.

this fellow, a prince of the north,goes down 6 generations from Domnall I ,Ceallach, Seasasach I, Dongalach [bell of the loch] who was the Donnelly
who addopted the O Donnelly surname.
Probably around the time of Brian Borus rule as he was the king who added this adoption of surnames, that being the name of the person than alive-his patronomic name rather tahan the continuance of the old gaelic style of eah child given a name and mac the fathers given name or patronomic.

So the child in old Irish records is always identified by a first name [ a given name] and the surname of his father-- the mac.

the tribal name following, UI or UA or Tuath as usually being one known of which tribe and sept that child and his father belonged and under which provincial king as noted in the Ogam on the tops of the dolmans of 2500 BC. The deceased given name, the given name of his father ,and the tribal name.

Brian said the old notation was to cumbersome as there were now to many people to kkep track of and to many given names the same, and so in his delightful Dal Cais wisdom probably acquired from the inbred Vikings, gave out the command and it was duly noted in the lost Cronicals of Irelland by the ollams to attach the patronomic of the current 1000 chiefs to any further decendants as a surname identifying them.

However Donghalach ,or Dongaile ,became the surname of all the decendants of Eocaid M Domnall ,King of Ailech ,and Chief of the Name.

This became Donnelly by the English writing of what they heard the Irish pronounce.
Dong became Donn and Aile becoming, justifiably so, as Ai in Gaelic is pronounced 'E 'and the ending 'e 'of an Irish word is pronounced 'e '-a Y.
So Dongaille is Donnelly and some use of 'g 'is a 'w sound arrises now in the modern Irish.

The next generation of the Dongaile is called Dobhaile, his first name.
This with the 'bh' sound of 'v 'becomes Devlin O Donnelly.
the O was kept at this time and later dropped when Hugh became a prodistant in 1700 under William and Mary.

Devlins son was Ceallach [Kelly] mac Dobhailen O Donnelly Chief of the Name and Marshal to ONeill ,followed by his son
Dongalach, great grandson of Dongalach our O Donnelly, also Chief of the Name and Marsahl probably around 1060- or so as his son Gilla Mac Liach O Donnelly Chief of Fer Droma Laigean was born in 1087 AD and died at 87 years of age.

This record claims he was killed by De Coursces invasion in Down in 1176 Ad.
Which would extend the birth date to 1089 and here the old Eachdach m Domnall of Ailec ends withthe French invasion of the North and the defeat of Donlevy in battle.

There is no use of Meic in the 93 MS record but Gilla Meic Lia a great great grandson of Lia ,a Liac.
The 5th generation of a derbfine adn hence a new line for Gilla begins from the 4 generation derbfine a new sept this being noted as
Gilla Meic Liac m Ruad [ Roderich, or Ruadri] and Gilasius the Bishop of Roderick.
Is this O Concobar who died in 1174?

They are associated with St Marys Abbly in Armagh and noted in 'Corrans Annoynmous Annals'
If that can ever be found.

I take it Gilasius the Bishop of Armagh ,son of Ruad or Roderic or Ruadri was he other partner producing this child Gilla Mac lia O Donnelly [ Dongalac the dark ray of the lake]
who produced him about 1087 or 1089. Probably after age 30 this the typical male Irish reprduction age they can credit for the Meic line coming in as the great great grandson of the rock 'lia' ,Ailec.

There is a record in Keating and 'the 4', which indicates relatives of Guilla Being a Fergus Bute or an Eogain Bute.
Not known if these are his children a sisters or both children of whoever.

However the Earl of Bute seems to be a relative of the Stuart line in Scotland so possibly this continues in the Scotish records fora few centuries.
Bute being an island just of the bay entry to Glasgow.

Boteus came up when I mentioned Bute at Archieves.
The bothe meaning Mag Ith in Donegal.
So there maybe be records there right in hostile Letterkenny.
Enough for now.

Off to see if can find the Chief Herald than and maybe runup the MS files for an hour.

Need to be back at Ilac by 2 to use the comp and see if can get the mega bus from Union station in Chi and Indy on Friday the 5th whatever time that train arrives.

the Salvation Army her is in the big expensive World Wide Web site so no point of contact for that bunch on Longford St to find out if and where a sheter is on long island for the 3rd.

Kathy did find one in Douglasstown.
I think that is the home base of Donnelly.org administrator and his 'intence productions'.Sounds like a nice plcce doesnt it.

I asked him once but no reply .
Thewe people are highly non communicative online.
I am about the best poet and ollam.

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009

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I dont think I will succeed in getting the disk for donnelly made here.
None of the colleges are available on the street.
Trinity is closed.
Independant college does not have much reference for computer making.
No one know wehre you could get a disk made cheaply here.

The National Libray can make a disk of their material for 20 E which is actually worse than the courts who want like 3.50 a sheet for a record copy.

In America now the Courts are on line.
Electronic print outs of a Court records is available to lawyers and such.
The old 1.00 a page put out is fading away thanks to Microsoft.
However havent had that here so far.

The Circuit court doesnt even have a receptionist guard at the desk.
Hence the solicitors asking How are you doing.

I hadnt dared walk in the District Court service gate at the old Richland hospital Yard.
It is forbidding like the Vicking Castle.
However the door is open. So was the Viking Casle door.
Neither seem safe. But at least they have a door. Not so for the High Court Service so far.
I might be able to extract the forms from the internet but it would take a 40 hour week to find them.
I dont have time actually.

I am surprised an enterprising young Irish or Indian group hasnt got a shop on the street offering computer services and disk making for the usual fee of 4 E an hour.
That seems to have by passed the tourist.
They all have the consiglier at the 100.00 hotel. And the students all have their own laptop at the hostel.
And the local students are all gated and fettred.

You cant leave thema note.
The note boards are behind locked glass.
Like Universitys around the world the student is protected, coddled and forbidden.
It is sort of like a religious order set up and so the Church toddled on from the middle age monastary school, to the hedge school, to the religious college, to the secular University in space and time.
What are they learning?
How to make money.
How to pleasantly expoloit the worker .
How to pretend help for the poor with the system.
OYE VEY!

I must contact the damn government again and waste my valuable time re what happened to the appeals process.
I thought it was mailed out 14 May but I looked in my record .
Says the 6th It was signed and mailed.
So they have not responded in 20 days. 3 weeks.
Cant trust them.
They will probably say they never recieved the forms or they cant read it
Have to send it again to the Big Minister.
Two days before the election.
She may be out next week and a new government formed.

Flac is probalby no help. They are way out on Dorsey st .Hours unknown.

Legal aid says it does not represent appeals level so the Minister office the best resourse to find out what happend to the mailed item.
I know An Post is reliable and did not loose it and I always put on a return.
Either they will claim they did not recive this form send again ,or they are so emotionaly disturbed by a poor American with an Irish passaport they cant do the job, or they did respond and sisters are not giving the mail to me as they did not tell me the bank called re some information I wanted.
I walked to the Bank adn got the inforamtion.

Interestingly the ladies of the Church would usurp a message by phone from a bank or apiece of mail from a government agency.
Seapartation of Chuch and State.
Gods adminstators of 8AD vs the King.
They need to pray more and iIam entitled by law to rent or donation receipt. This is State law. Republican law .Government law. Kings law. But the Church rules.
I can get reciept by going to the priest which is a paternal society of Erie, who well gently ask sister like Denis did if I could be given a reciept and this piece of paper will appear in hand and be listed in evidence with the Court.

Not to be delved into this intinctive sex reaction of women in general when the nest or their men are threatened.

The desire to cat fight other females is consistant in the nature of the beast .
Women instinctivly see other women as a threat to their own desirablity and vanity.
They consider other women less competant, less sane, less loveable than themselves.
They are internally cynical and demeaning of each other. Catty.
The liberated wemale being just as bad if not worse, than her paternally protected sister.

However the good sisters provide a human or need here.

The only shelter for women north of Rathmines . Let the drunken nights roam.

Mr L would not refer me to the question of exposure to drink vs exposure to the midnight street which is less harmful tothe tourist.

They ahve the tourist blankout here so deeply ingrained inthe subconsious psycic.
Particulary around the American tourist.
There is no other America but the political or the business executive all providing money.

The Euro controls and old civlilzed Ireland secumes.
Its soverenty and its personality, its archetechture, its absolute plum line cobble stone and stone fences, its shops and its fences, its college, and its Travlelers, 4/5 fettered shops, and Christ.
Its trains and double decker buses. Its fianna of trucks plying the timpeals Its great dredge boasts rusting inthe harbor and its sleek continental mediteranian yatchs.
Its Commonwealth immigrants and its images all submerged to the euro.

That bubble currency about to burst along with the rest of them as the rest itself fall out of this leafeless tree.

The Envioronmental people have as yet not identified the great tree at Arbor Hill with its great display of giant leaves fans of Mother Nature.
Perhaps they cannot.

This tree of the Sacred Heart guardian of the Proclamation and the graves behind the prison wall. Fettered graves.
These graves like the Famine graves have the God given tree.
The great old Yew unique to itself and to Eire.
The very covered oaks and sycamores.
The unidentified lone tree standing here and there amonst the dead .
Reminding us that poems are made by fools like you and me and only God can make a tree.

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009

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This is the only computer I ever used which doesnt have accessories notepad and word pad so you can copy and write things on it.
And Ireland a big breeder of Microsoft prouducts and software.
even the lap tops have windows programed in so I dont understand why these machines are not storing it.

Have the emails here make so as to why.
The whole world has access and accesssories for microsoft ware installed with theseat the factory.

These are HP comps.
HP is a subsidiary of-Compac
Have one at home maybe some one else is the subsidary of .
Its an American machine.

They should get Dell.
Dell is better and so is the installed at al the universities .

I want to run by the Capuchin work with the food court on Bow St and saw others at Chicago and NY as the church could use the donations.

The breaking news here at Sky TV is that Obama appointed some judge--maybe his dog barked.
This is the level of press absorbtion.
Obama sneezed.

Nothing about the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq or the redeployment to Afganistan or the end of rendition by the CIA or the release and trial of the internees at Guantanamo.
Or the policy of Geitner regarding keeping the dollar value below market to reduce the bills of burdoning debt the US has accumulated which is supposed to take at least 3 generation to buy into a percentatge conformity and such. The policy decisions for the US affect the value of the Yen the Asian dollar the neareast and the rest of non European currencys.
Only Africa escapes having no currency at all.

Wasnt it Wellington that killed BonepartsArmy and distroyed Liberte, Justice and Egualite for a century or more. Yes it was.

I did manage to not find the door to the High Court services to pick up the filing forms and en forma paulperous forms for the appeal denial from social welfare.
However it was go rond the buildign and there is no entry.

I went back up to Abby St to pee inthe Circuit Court toilets andsee where the clerk was and while reading the board was asked the usual,
Are you alright?
The irish quiry for what are you doing in our nest and the nice old solisitor explained to me how to go to thegate and ask for the Services entrance or some such bulilding and took me to the street to show me how to walk over there.
I had just come back from my walk over there and of coruse forgot the name of the S building anyway so got onthe Luas and went on down to Marbough St to see if any shelter provision at Cedar Tt there.

Not.
They are just taking in men no women.
We are so protected by society as to be left out in the bawn with the cows while the men are trained in camp.
Camp followers are what we are.
Mothers of the Army.

However not refering me to the 2 emergency shelters one on Angiers St in the South and Blessign St somewhere in Dub 7 as unfit for humans habitation as they are both recovery wards for the drunks and junkees.

Hardly a problem for an American who has been exposed to drunks and junkees for 40 or 50 years.

The Americans have more money to buy the stuff than the Europeans and Irish.
However the fellow did call the good sistes here and they told him they would accpt what money I had and not put me out for non payment of Donations.
Its not rent sister says.
But for the consession to poverty in paper I suppose.
I cannot hold out for my reciept.
Mr L is witness to the deal anyway and we can produce him in Court or Denis to prove shelter was paid for from May 6 09 to June 1 09 and the amounts recorded in the record.
110 euros out of some bodys pocket.

I will have 5 Es left if this occurs today and may need that to get to the airport on Tue if the 41 bus refuses the luggage.

Actually if I knew you could get a cab from Maldahid about 2 kms fromt he airport I could ride the Dart upthere and take a cab.
But inforamtion that technical and that close is hard to come by on the streets.
The rich can come by it fromthe hotels simply by picking up the phone and having the consiglier find out for them .
Part of the 100 Es a nite delight.

The 5.00 a night people or the night shelter people or the 1 E per meal people are excluded from these.
They dont need to know that information.
They find it out by themselves mostly.
They are not welcome.
Welcomeness comes, not with quality, in contrast as in Europe but with money.
Money controls. Money talks.
Money and corporate expense accounts are the new reality.
The New World Order.
The lordships of the keep.
All are dependant on Money.

Money is life, Birth,Death Survival needs, Pleasure, Marriage ,Health, All.

And so Jesus threw the money changers out of the Temple and for this disturbance was hung ont he tree.
That leafless dead tree.
Teh oglach of Rome doing the bidding, not of their own thought, but their mentors.
Who? Why?
And this having along with the rest of the west ever praying about it ever since.
Asking forgiveness for this 'know not what they do'. Why?

Why if they are born in the image of God the Creator, the all powerful ,the infinate like and intellegnce did they not KNOW.

Birds know.
The pigeons knew .The gulls know. The dove of peace knew.
A starving mad dog knows but Man with the brain does not know. Why?

As Mr L and I stood in the doorway out discussing the exchange rate and the condition of the world and substance abuse two ladies came in and stood there listening and became upset
that this was going on.

I am upsetting women in Ireland for some deep emotional feeling they have Unknown to the rest of us.
It is near hysteria animal like.

I am a combination of the Banshee flying by and the Becuma fallen women in lore.
I did have on my red yesterday.
The pink has gone to be preserved for the trip so I am either in the red or the black.
That all I have could buy only the Canada zip up jog coat for 1 Euro.

The Canadas fabric is thicker than the American and more suitable to the climate here as Ireland is onthe 55 latitude equable to north Quebec and south Hudson Bay.
The natural fabric here is wool but Ireland has always exsported its raw material for wine. And now milk and cotton and computers.
It has never really developed its resoures to finished product except for the Ulster linen trade which was developed, exploited and totally controled by the settler prodistant.
The Anglo Asendancy which in its selfish opulance and demand for superior status ,finally brought down with revolution and revlot by annoyed the exploited and down troden inferiors and deprived native.

Belfast still trys to lead in economic development and finished pruduct and it does succeed in Engineering and welding and such having a goodly population of Scots from the 13 century Bruce recall.

Dublin however deals mostly in finance now paper banking and its every present Pub and celtic structure.
It is not proficent at technology or much interested in its own history and stuctures.
Its enterested in a happy exploitation of the tourist, his new lordshiop and vice roy.
Ireland needs its generals and colonels and captain.

It is a society decended from the solder and the Army camp and hence the old Chieftan and Gaelic order worked perfectly well on this island for centuries providing it security and order.
the eagles over the nests.

The fitness to rule.
The discusssion and expounding of all problems and the records and songs of the Bard and Ollam.
This system was better for Ireland as the lord and monarchy of England are still in control and held in reverence there.
The system does in vestage prevail here today, but not in formality.

It prevails in the secret location of the elected Dail protected by the every present Gardai at the gates and the electronic studio and the golf course and the team as the Republic daudles along on its nest of parties and parties and social events.

All dutifly attended by the Freinds of Ireland from America and where now, are the friends of the Americans?

Perhaps that is the hysteria among women I am experiencing.
The American woman needs no friend.
No Chara for her.
No cup o tea .
Becuma must go back to the other world.
The Banshee must not appear in her carriage of black horses.
The kids must not go to the sea and Juno and the Peacok are forgotten
not worshiped.
The comradry of the change.
Everything is changed and the Terrible Beauty is born.

judi donnelly
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Went over to the Caputchin Order of St Francis Food Center on Bow St to have a nice chicken dinner at 2 PM,1400 hours, and have the BP run by the nurse they provide the homeless medical care and the Dr a very nice middle age man was there today.
i didnt get his name but theBP was low and behold 120/80 like a young kid.
So the combination of Metropronal from
ODonnell as beta blocker to regulated the heart beat and the other a kidnney ace inhibitor drug was working. This good travel news.

Of course the homeless of all Europe in the Union have health coverage like the Canadians no matter where they go so the clinic is paid for by the various insurance plans rather than volunteers I think.
Americans are the vunerable ones not havign much to back them up unless they have the money to purchase travel health insurance if they need it.
I think the premiums are quite high.
The students too if they have that valuable student card are coverd by their colleges.
But us seniors OYE VEY!
Are we the left over or what?

I offered the old conserative sister ner do well the 25 euros for the week this morning but like all nestors she absolutly refused to give a receipt for this money even though we have already 2 reciepts for the money Denis gave.
She says this is not rent.
What is it than a forced donation?
And this for the Celtic poor.
The Church has never been noted for its lack of greed.

So I may have to evacuate again at great disruption to my last 5 days in Erin with the 2 bags, no money ,no shelter, waiting for the flight to come up.

I hope not but not to put any kind of upset above the birds of prey.
Scavangers that they are.

The law requires a rent receipt here just as it does in the US but the Church considers itself above the law and trustworthy as Gods representative on Earth.
The Church itself deamnds reciepts for any money it puts out for goods and servces but does not think it has to comply itself in its own business intrests.

Anyway the sister wants to charge the full week of 30euros for 5 nights when it should be 7x4 = 28 euros and that comes to 4 per night and a few pence.
so it shoud be 16.50 euros not 25 or 30.
So I may refuse to comply to this tithe anc cause the system further problems to survice here in Ireland for another 5 days.

However I do have the train pass so I can get an the train for Wicklow and Europort for a day and again up to Westport or Carrick on Shannon and there are one or two night shelters here on the south side.

Backstreets and Samaratins may take me in for a few days although I dont think for nothing.
Harbor House charges 25 a week but that is full.

There is a Salvation Army here but I dont think they are running any shelter yet.
I do think I will be able to access them on Long Island for a night and than on to Penn station and Chi.

The feeding places are mostly good in Dublin but some of them charge a euro or more for the meal.
They are all churcc run the government and the big embassys provide nothing for their people, Shelter, information or food and guidance.

They just exist like gapping taxshelters gobbling up the unsuspecting peoples money without any return on the investment but a few toddy tea parties than with reputations to exascerbate world peace and their own comfort and prosperity.

I am on the computer here at 4 An hour from now.
I hope I can get the 3 pieces to Irish government agencys didnt get out yesterday.
I am hoping a space display exists somewhre in the Republic but apparently they have not got that far yet.
No Moon Bord or Irish astronausts in the making.
Maybe it has to do with the emmigree past of ireland where those who went way to N America were given a wake and they never returned.

Did you ever go across the sea to Galway and maybe at the closin of your day- for they speak a language the strangers do not know-
And now this subconciously or perhaps an devalara peperception of the government doesnt want the next generation disapearing to the space station or the moon rock mines.

Never to return and crossing over into the old other world.

The election will be held next week as I take off and perhaps a less entrenched govenement wil gain ground and Fianna Fail which has had almost continious control sicne 1932 and before will have to make consessions to Labor and Sein Finn and Fine Gael and the coming Independants.

The old style of Tara feis decision goes on on TV.
Midday shows and such where the differing viewpoints are graciously expounded in a brogue not really understandable to the stranger.

There own people pay no attention to them and I dont think most of the young bother to vote.

They are more intersted in makeup and money than God and Country.

Old Ireland slops away from them and New Ireland leaves them with out a ship or a rudder clinging to soap opera tv and foolish american shows on the bull shit sex scenes which are piggish and gross.

A new government will be formed in June.
The deseases of the cool spring will be forgotton with the arrival of the rich american tourist and the usual summer festivals and tours and the exodus of well paid Irish servants to Spain and Switzerland for Holidays.

There car machines safely locked behind the gated apt complex and the remt well paid and this force stuggles of foodlessness and shoelessness and world exodus to survive are buried again like their ancsestors neith the green green grasses of Ireland.

I will try and stay at Regina Coeli for the 5 days but if not It will f up the end of my stay here.

When I land at JFK will have to find the homeless shelter out of Howard Beach so no difference there than here except I still havea Wendys card from Xmas in purse not yet used up.

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009

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I have forgotenthe story of Ben Edar as has Ben Edar itself.
The Dart goes up there and by the strand here the water of the sea mingles calmly with reed and sand and bog ,and some local people wander by of an evening as do all people living in beach communities.

The park is large and walking the street lined with fish wholesalers and small resturants sutable for a nice fish dinner.

Interestingly a city of Dublin tour bus goes there and ,as all over Ireland now ,there were many cars along the small neat coal colored regular Ce.

The large dredge and fishing boats are well kept and utilitarian but not decrative.
They to are untitled marked to be used and linked.
The men about the quay are dedicated ,not showing off for the ever present tourist and visitor.

The Dart station is walled and had to get a and out of a long wall way of very around to the town side and down old styles stairs.
The Dart is old not spotless and perfect like IrianRail or the Luas trains.

It is listed as commuter service.
However it is being replaced by the neat compact personal conveyance car and these prosperous, upper middle class, managment and professional people, who live in this beach suburb of Dublin proper now drive back and forth rather than ride the train into the big shinny glass blds of Fianna goverment and management jobs.

These are my new 2 bedrom high rise apt along the route the on North Shore Rd up throu Bayside and Rath Edar.

The old mountain rests off in the distance just south of the station but is too far to walk and a time element remains.

It is a nice place to take the children on a weekend out of the city.
A beach town.

Prawns are 23.00 a kilo and other sea trout and such are there for sale from White and Mulloy.
I think it was this fish vendors. Ben Edar is a a working village.

There is a dolman here inland a bit called Aidens grave.
I suspect this is the history I cant remember.

The time to go to Howth is early on a week day morning whenthe boats are in and the fishing plants working.
I suspect it is beautiful then as the sun rises over the Irish Sea.

as I stroll down the boat dock there is an Irish coast guard station across the way.
I walk over but it is evening and the station is closed.
The service is the marine guard of the Island and regulates the coast line and boating.

Unfortunatly I could get no inforamtion on it at the end of Qauy tourist station which I was suprised to see still open.
A woman was at work on a computer in a room in the back but she had no knowledge of the grave or the history of the place.
Mostly thEre were pampletS of the various restaurants on the street and some festival they have up there in Aug or September.

On the left of this place is a grass dune a high knoll which rises up where you can go and look out on the bay.
Some people went up there but I stayed on the rocks below.
We watched a sailboat come swiftly in.
She bore a tricolor on the stern.
Behind her came in a large not as sleek or fast a boat almost a scooner but she flew no colors only a small red penant.
I dont know the meaning of it.

I thought he Irish boat was better. A smooth sailing fleet and regualr craft.

On the way back up a crowd of tourists were gathered at the quayside looking into the water and talking excitedly.
I went over.
These where two begging seals bobbing below asking for a few fish.
Mone had a bite for them but they stuck with it and the tourists from the tour bus were greatly amused.
I suppose they get fish left overs and entrails there regualry and are quite tame to people.
They looked healthy enough.

I went on to the fishermans working office and was reading the notice.
It was all about the military exercises posted by the Coast Guard regarding the Brith war training program and the live amunition they were using and the need to be aware and careful of this exercise.
As I read on it was discoverd this war exercise had alrady taken place.

A man about 45 came out talking to his mates, saying goodby to them and happy.
I guess he got his pay.
When he saw me standing there he became respectful and quit and went on his way.
The Irish male always respectful of the woman when they come across one they do not know.
They are tight knit and self contained.

Most of the bay boats are from Drogeda.
Moored there at this peninsila north shore of Dublin Harbor.
There is a large yatch club down the road a ways and on the train I picked up a newpaper.

Drogeda People.
What a name droper town of old Irish aristocracy that sheet is.

The ladys of the Kellys and O Rourkes and the Reilys and the Monahans and the Cavenaghs and the O Neill and the Mc Donagh and a few Scottish Cambells and then of course, my English connection the Cunninghams.
And the Bryrnes from Wicklow.
O Brien a Mc Kenna and others.
And these are just the happy wives , well taken care of Irish girls who have only the way of how to please the man and each other.

Well what a good place to catch a husband if you are middle aged.
I dont know if they have any young up there.
I did not stay long enough to find out whats up at Court.

These people all now live in the Boyne valley and what used to be called Bregia, East Meath.

So I suppose the old nobility were able to retain the lands holding throughout this north midland or regain them as none of them seem to be suffering from poverty or deprivation and probaly all have connnections in Boston and America.

There are several layers to the Irish elite.
None of which I have any exposure to.
We are farmers from the north.
Kings so long ago to have been forgotten and never the ones to play politics or run for office.

I came back on the 5.00 O clock.
The Dart trains run every 20 minutes or so and they do go up to Malahide so close to the airport.

I spuppose you could get a cab from there.

There is a train to Maynooth as well and I guess the trains goes out of Connelly down as far south as Bray.

I dont have time to ride out there as want to take one more trip while here to Carrick onSahnnon and see the great river.
That will be the last of it.

judi donnelly
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Well I must email that cousin Donnelly who was trying to put together some info on her dad. She couldnt find much.
I want to direct her to the local geno project in Coaisland.
As I dont think Denis brother is much interested in following through on the Donnelly research.
They have their own dad and in Irleand that search info might be seen as intruding on on their surname rights.
Best done by the donnelly clann not the cousins.

I want to see if the Marsh library on the south side has any old records before I go, and need to spend one more day at the Reading Room at 2 Kildare St.

Now need to look in the phone book and see if any government science programs exist under the Ministrys na it is not Birr
I am preetty sure .

The Republic may not have an up to date space and environment program yet?
It should. This is the 21 Century!

Than I want to take a ride on Dart and I need to be sure it is OK to run up there or to Cedar house on Marborough St on Tue and to be sure get the airport bus that evening.

I think it will be easier to walk the stuff over there about 2 .
Then go on down to Abby and Gardner and get the 4 or 5 bus up the 14 miles to the airport and spend the night up there rather than getting out at 4 am to get up there .

The struggle at Indy to Chicago getting here was enough.
Would rather sit in the airport all night than go theough that mad run again.

I did email the Washington Post re the false exchange rate but have not been abe to correct anything with their 1 hours restriction here online.

Plus having to watch the damn machine every 2 words as it might cut off writing in the middle of a sentance, or jump the copy to the address window in the middle of a word, or go back to inbox , or then just not pick up the copy.

The floppy works here to record but there is no notepad or wordpad or accessory so the thing cant be pasted.

Now the floppy wont open so you dont know whats on it anyway.

Maybe to try and put it in attached files and send the eamil to yourself and see if it will open.
About an hour process just to save a web form copy.

Eircom has a big 10 story glass building across the road from Heuston station and not much on that street I could see.
Guiness is also out there.
Eirecom is the one with thetelephone monopoly all over Ireland with the depost 1 E for every phone call.
Ive never tried it.
I doubt that they give change.

They also have the government contract for its whole website plus about every other Eire online connection and company so they probably are worth as much as Microsoft or more having been in business longer.

These are the giant monopoly companys that invest millions on the exchange every day to icnrease their profits while the ordinary human loses 20% of every 1.00 bill he puts out to eat and sleeep.

These boardmen in black garb buried in their tons of paper money and big business.
Annonymous and the Captains and the Kings so famous in his book Thomas Costans wrote about the deals in the back room and the elite and the secret location and the guillotine falls and it will as it has before.

I want to remember to run by the internet stuff at the National Libray when I go that way on Wensday to see if they are able to include some of it in the micro film records over there.
A deft suppy of interent web material online.
Google,Wikapedia ,some on Yahoo and others have a great deal of material realting to Irish History ,tribes and lands on line as well as many of the old Clanns now have a webform for people of that name like Donnelly.org,the Cassidy Clann, the ONeill website has all the northern Irish clans listed and so forth.

Much of my blooger.com material including the genotables for the Donnellys which is still not on a decent disk should be put in the Archives housed at the libray for researchers.

The entire Celtic project of Cork U should also be availalbe at the library as well as much of the work of the Irish Text Society still publishing one volume a year in old Irish and English but as yet not onthe web forms.

Much of the bardic records do not seem avalable in Ireland and the Pronti records held in the norht 6 counties are not on the lists available here.
You need to go to the north to access them.

They should be availabe nationwide, the entire island ,like the genoproject file of paid records which include the entire island.

There is also an area for developnent of microfilm between the Irish university system and the north american system regarding making available records from Ireland to places like Newberry Libray in Chicago and some of the university systems of Canada coordinating materail with reference sourse like Harvard, Yale McGill Vancover ,Villanova ,et al.

And not to forget old Australia with its big population of transported.

The Castle here in Dublin ,Beaty Libray have a lot of old Church records for 1-12 AD and Marshs Library on Bride St and St Pats Way ,the oldest library in Dublin and I belive in Ireland doesnt even come up in the phone book.

As far as the National science Museum for the Republic there doesnt seem to be one and they do need one to keep up to the World Class observatory at Armagh whih is in touch with NASA, Europa Space Agency, Environmental forces, the Milky Way studies and equals some of the space and technology displays at the Smithsonian in Washington DC.

Ther is no listing under Education and Science Ministry.
The place dealing with schools and teachers and no Ministry on Museums for the Republic just Heritage.
Heritage of the futue is not on the list but the Irish parent graviates like lemming with their strollers and those exited 5 year olds to the future.
To the natural history now closed for 3 years- worse thanthe Vatican.

The National libray is remodeling but has not closed the library like these others who have too much money and not enough consern for the now living child.

Darfur all over again.

Its more attitude.
The attitude of Euro over Breathe Sona or even Uisce Breatha.

Paper prevails with its pretty colored pictures of some unknown person or place.
But her Majesty Elizabeth II is known for Her portrait because of her longevity being as famous as Victoria the Famine Queen.

The rest are forgotten but George Washington.
Even Nicolas II is a face unknown since Ramasis II.

Where burnable paper replaces human life and its values, or animal life and its inestimable life force, and space and time become lost in this pyre of the Euro and the Dollar and the Yen ,man and this planet will self distruct and the glory of light in its lazered brilliance form will shine through the galaxy devoid of movement or enligtenment.

Are we so headed?

judi donnelly
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5:20 AM 8/19/09 [thanks microsoft glad you are up before DAWN]

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Ireland 2009 pg 92

I am on the train back to Dublin from a day trip to Waterford.

A bit of fog and rain onthe way down but cleared as we got into the city.
I got down to the visitors center thats about 3 klms out of downtown.
But of course mothing in there I could afford but a nice covered bowl made in Poland.

All the Waterford stuff was 100 euros or more.
Nice Crystal glass but not a lot of it useable mostly to look at.

The town is a lot like Ohio. Very modern streets a good bus service and it makes the American feel right at home.
It is not quait but businesslike.
The plant itself is totaly closed now this year and may never repopen .
Their product just being out of reach of the new modern middle class and very few wealthy nobility left to collet it.
Macys was one of its best retailers but now that product is off the Macy line.
I dont think they have replace it with Dungannon Crystal and there is aonothe Irihs glass company now but forgot where.
Crystal has been replace by plastic from China.

There were some buyer however in store making purchases from the very felicitous staff.
The buying process reminded me of a very high class 5th Avenue jewlers and the diamond dealers.
A buyer really feels special.
And so he is.

This is a one company town like Limerick is to Ford so the economy like the American town depencance is deep adn will be lasting.
I dont know if they will be able to replace it.
The day trips do not allow you time to delve into talk or wandering around but it was all I could get
becauee of the shelter problem.
I am sure the sheep would baba all night and bring out the Garda if I curled up in one of their green pastures.
The cows might be ameanable but not the sheep.
We must smell like woves to them.
They really know we intend to eat them .
The best friend to living rough is the milk cow as long as there is no bull in the field.

Well the train is now moving again so want to view the long sunny fields and the afternoon sun.
This part of Mumna has no more sheep than the west of this province.
Fitzgerald land here. Thomastown and such.

Well keeping eyes open for what looks like a cairne on the west nountains out of Carlow on the lake at the river Barrow.
However it might just be the old sky at Abbylex.

However I am back at Heuston Station at half past 5 exactly and had to pee pretty bad.
But the long half mile walk to the station toilet only revealed a 30 cent charge to get in and so got the Luas to Jamesons at Smithfield and went up Bow St to theretour enterance to pee.

The Indian guard let me go by to the toilet and a nice one they have there as well with heat as well.
Civilized ireland!

The trains in Ireland do hav toilets on the cars so if you have the HBP it is advisable to get up there and pee before the train goes into the station.
The doors automatically lock while the train is in station and stopped.

Came on up to the hostel and here by 10 of 6 and a new sister on wanted to know my room # and if I had been drinking or had any drugs.
She finaly let me by but to late for tea.

Do think the Sunday to Athlone will be to much for me.
Two days in a row out of Dub and retrun.

The sheep are well and growing. Still bearing the blue marker which makes one wonder which AgraBusiness Company Ltd actually owns the wool on the backs of the little lambs and here is no wool fabric in the country as I can see and maybe this same wool rip off the English had going.
Evertything on export to England and the profit to England while the Irish went uneducated, bare foot, and dependant on the potato to survive as I am now.

Got down sisters saltless firls on the train with a little salt and pepper added.
I dont know only they cooked these rather tasty potato cakes whout any salt.
They are very edible in a bit of butter on in sausage greese.

There is no way this country cannot support and feed 6 or 8 million human people.
The accepted excuse for the little Queens distruction of her neighbors in 1845.
And the clearances of the Irish tenants afterwards to make room for more exportable cattle and sheep.

However East Munster is, addition to having no sheep ,has a nice supply of quality horses just south west o Dublin on that braod plain of plenty.

These plains well watered ,flat,green and teaming with capacity for crops as well as animals is fully capable of sufficently feeding the 5 million population Ireland has today.
Where the totally unscientific story that the reason the potato crop failed was because the country had 2 many people and this was the natural removal of excess population used by our dear friend Mother Nature .
Or as the religion likes to put it 'Gods Will' and how to secure your profits and blame the exploitation for this our sin !!

The light has returned to normal the last 3 days.
So we are all shocked awake by the lazer power of the artic sun reaching its zeneth around the north pole where it never sets.

It merely shows you the power of space time and the milky way galaxy in controlling our life and being here on earth.

The clouds over Ireland are it protective cover agains this lazer light comning in the last days of May as we go to the 6 weeks till the next Solstice, 42 days or so.

40 days before the summer solstice this light beams lazered ,focused, a glaring charged moment in time and than the clouds gather agaisnt it and protect this Island of Saints and Sinners from this ray of glory
that may be, for them ,both Devil or God.
They come close to both.

It is more secure witout this glow.
Up at 6 ,coffee at 8 ,out at 9.30 or so ,in again by 5.
A regular life.The Church always has.

the ladies are all fighting over some stolden euros.
One accusing another of takingthe money.
Both drunk as lords and the sister put them both out to solve it.
But here we are at it again .One Irish girl and one Black of French Africa.
3 days of this dispute is two much.

I usually go to my room as soon as we eat at 7.
Not much good food at night but the sisters do prepare a nice noon meal for 1 E.
I am usually gone at noon.

One of the young girls here was disturbed because I was standing next to her at the table.
Some deep rooted fear of strangers I guess.

She probably has been taught to hate Americans because of some thing George Bush did her parents or family disaproved of.

There is a lot of petty prejudice amonst women here in Ireland.
They cant express what their problem is.
They just react like little monkeys in trees.
They are very much overprotected.
Probably some of the problem ran into with this room and with the government workers.

So far most of the boys and men are more able to handle the outside world effectively.
Most on the train coming down were Irish males and belive me they need little help.
The girls who got on this run were still very quite and reserved minding their own business not willing to engage in much talk.
They are trying to exude independence but with out much confidence in their ability to carry it of.
A reserved afraid of letting downthier guard with each other or anybody outside thier clique and they have a pecking order where the boys and men have an open relaxed comaradere.
They enjoy and learn from each other.
They are not competing with ech other as women are by nature.
Well some of them have chip on the shoulder as though every one should know that.

I could care less what their problems are actually.
At 72 I dont want to be bothered with the human condition of the 18 year old.

I dont think I have enough coffee to last the next 7 days and Monday, Tue and Wensday.
Whats that 10 days to land at JFK and get out of Manhattan.

The printer failed on the copy of the electronic train ticket.
So Monday will try and print it out last not first and see if the machine can keep up to me this time.
I want to take one more train run up to Athlone .
Was going tomorrrw but think it will be to much for me.

Taht will pretty well have covered the geography of this island overview except for Inisowen in the north ,Kerry in the south and Mayo county in the far west.
Save this for future try if I live that long.

If i do come back to be sure it will be with a string of guaranteed shelters paid for and monitored by the Irish Tourist Bord under the new 'Senior Link' program so we old folks wont be thrown out to fend for ourselves.

Even though We are brave We dont have enogh money for 100 a night hotels or nnned to be treated like pariahs if we want to have our blood pressued taken.
Told to go home on the next flight because we cant spend 40 euros a day on restaraunt meals and sent walking this way and that to find some idea the natives have in their head about were somthing is.

A good example the National Archives have only Testamenary Dcouments not Micro films or manuscripts.
The Micro area the National Libray and the manuscripts are at what used to be the Heraldiic Museum and such vital information as the Natural Histoy Museum has been closed for 3 years.

However nobody knows that and you sort of have to check everything out before you set out.
However if youare an old tourist with out a lap top or a cell phone there is no way to check it out as the students do.

The countryside is still much nicer than the towns and cities however it is all now private property like the British style of fee simple.
So there is really no comradery of the old chiefs territory dictates today.
Everyone is on their own.
Natives ,coutnry,people and outsiders.
Nnd all had better have a pocket full of money and a tank full of petrol to be there.

The natives no longer speak to each other and defend each other by tribe but now by sort of a get aquainted as you go and not to much policy.

The sports teams are together.
Young male members and the school childs are together in the shcool.
Todays adult in Ireland sort of out of touch with everything and these are the Irish I am talking about not he Commonwealth country immigrants,
who are just happy to be safely empolyed at the newsstand and given an opportunity to make good.

judi donnelly
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Ireland 2009 pg 91

2009-08-18T07:14:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 91

When I got to Regina there was mail.
I thought it was from Soc and Welfare telling me to go to hell or some thing about my appeal request date.
So I did not open till rested and had a cup of tea.

When I did found a letter from the bus pass people telling me they would issue a senior bus pass and the second piece contained the Bus Pass.
All I had to do is go over to O Connell St and give them one picture and sign and I can ride the Dublin Dart.
Some good fortune to have got that.

I did get frustrated with so many forms to got along with my case for applying inclusive of the benefit along with the community area people and sent it on their Minister who apparently finds the law of citizeship equality as imclusive of seniors as outlined in the Irish Constitution and the Proclaimation to be sufficient legal grounds to include citizens of Ireland who have resided outside the common travel area as equaly eligible for the senior travel beneift with those who are not citizens but living and retiring in the common travel area.

Fairness and justice prevail with out a high court ruling and good for MRs H.

Finaly a woman not responding to her job with hysteria and emotion but following the priciple of law and common good.
What her appointment as Minister entails
So there are some irish women making it in a mans world.

Using their skill and brain and eduction and thought rather than acting the dumb blond.
Dames of the female sex and a lit bitter at what they do .
The Mrs Thatchers of the world who in the end killed
of the myrters with emotion and feminine wiles
rather then truth , justice, humanity and faith reality.

They all starved to death for status. Clothes Basic acceptance of human conditions as Lord Harvey so succently stated in his Buritish logic.
'They have a right to commit suicide of they want to?'

Do the homeless have a right to sit on the bridge with the paper cup rather than be ejected from Ireland .Or go home to the familys or ,rejected by their own embassy .as the US rejected my simple request for a loan of 90 euros to pay for emergency shelter.
Or the public reading of their bylateral agreement with Ireladn regarding social security.
Buena nada group.

I must demand after 22 days the rest of this request be sent me.

If tEh Irish government can issue me 4 pieces of mail here at this address why cannot the US Embassy mail the Agreeement or least its provisions and guidlines?

Attitude.
This address is not in the US.
They would have let me go without knowledge necessary to my immidiate survival.
Or coooperate with Eire government over it than they would acknowledge that myth int he world exists.
But this one headless beast piece of territory being in the Victorian Age of tea partys with Brandy.

Very semi-international business and to hell with Judi Donnelly the old and the poor deprived of funds by the governments policy to reduce the value of the dollar to sell China made junk and US products to the rest of the world . Known benafactor of the chocolate bar economy .

Its now dead GI Joes repalced by the New World Order of free trade.

International police forces, the internet cafe for energy contacts found in the US.
World wide battlefields now eliminated by predator drones.

Governments cause 90 % of Mankinds problems.
Refusal to acknowlege the responsiblilty for their half thought out policys.
Refusal to repair the damage they cause and become hysterical and abusive like great dinosours who are poked when faced with the results of their own activities.

If the dollar policy to sell product junk had not been put in place by the Bush Treasury Department ,nurtured by the Obama financial crisis people, the US Dollar would hold its own against the equally western euro and par would have prevailed leaving Judi Ann 200.00 more to spend on shelter and therefore not thrown by the US policy into emergency shelters needs in Ireland.

Not that the Irish capitalist have no responsibilty in trying to get rich overnight on poor unsuspecting tourists ,not only Americans but Contintal as well, in overcharging them for everthing they need to survive.

8.95 E Irish breakfast.
100 a nite american hotel charges.
500 euros a week cottages in the countryside while the old line town hotels are advertising rooms for 39 euros a nite.
Trying to keep going and the hostels without heat or more than two minutes of hot water are trying in toast with butter and jam and tea for fee included in the 25 euro hike for the weekend which now takes in friday as well as saturday and Sunday in theFrench 4 day work week style.

But the international backpakers students get the discount on everything in which the senior do not on anything.

I will be off to O Connell St to see if cang et the bus pass activated today and then on to the libray to eamil keely, denis the US embassy and maybe Michals brother regarding my disapointment in his snobbery here in Dublin.
Tomorrow can ride the Dart to Kildare St and if can get the pass and find out if can get a day trip to Birr in Offaly our Taoisech home county to see the observatory Republic space program.
I hope.

The next Frenchpark home of the buxom ancestors .Rosscommon and the Shannon will have to wait.

I am out of time and out of money.

Another try aonther time with money added.

Some type of toursit road resorts to create reliable shelter costs arranged on the link before we get here.
Like the hotels and the hostels.

A inter county Pub link.
Approved by the Bord Failte

Judi donnelly
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Ireland 2009 pg 90

2009-08-17T09:34:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 90

There are no Maoils only Mullensat the Archives.

When 12.30 came I went to lunch asking the desk if should order up what I wanted before or after.

He said after would be OK because it only took 2 munites to provide a record.
I had a nice lunch but after I found out that the' T 'records were at the Archieves the MSs were at the Library on Kildare.

So the 'T' records were just brought up for me to see how the system worked.

One I asked for a hand written document, the pedegree of the Hughes as that might be Denis family.
This turned out to be one little paper in a green file containing the Application of Alice Kelly to be Administrator of her late husband John Kelly who died in 1839.

No other records on the Hughes at all.
I was disapointed.
I thought I had a good records find for Denis branch of the family.

There is a Kelly connection but in Ireland and its revotionay past there is always an ONeill and Kelly 'connection.

These clanns made up with the OBrians ,the bulk of the fighting force over centuries and of course Coyne and Livery provided them with bed mates as welll as food and shelter.

So there are an abundant crop of ONeills and Kelly no way about extinction that branch ,ley or no.

I than went out and again as the last stop to Archives .
It was raining so I was going along at a good pace up Bride .
A nice residential area of Dublin to this circle of Christ Church Cathederal and than up Wine Tavern to Court St around 4, hoping to catch the Failtu Center and get a good meal here.

However did not find it.

Going all the way up past the Viking castle which takes up the entire block.
It was open but did not look inviting.
Austere massive dungeon with great stone walls now covered in the green brush of Ireland.

At Bridge St I knew I had gone to far west and asked directions of a local apt rental agent.
She printed out a map of the area and I went back past the National School across the street from the Viking block long castle and the school is almost as large.
Finally having to ask again of a garage who showed me the red door across the st that was Failtu.

However the serving area in the handbook of homeless facilties is 3 PM not 4.30 as printed.
So no dinner.

Whet on over the Ce to Church St which has nothing but the 4 Courts and the Bar Association.
There is a Gardai station on its east side across from the bus metro stop north.
The bus stop north is on the left side of the street which takes a bit of getting used to .
you have to go east side to go north
and the west side to go south.
same for the east west routes.
for east you go to the north side of teh street
for west you get teh metro or train ont eh south side.
I think the easy way is that you face the direction you want to go in and the stop will be on the left hand side.

This works well in the city but on the train lines you are not sure which way is north or east from the platforms or in the countyside which way is the town you want to go to as the road to someplace is unfamiliar to a tourist or other stranger which way the bus is gong north south east or west.

However if you are a senior with a bus pass and a few euros in pocket and time on your hands and a handy mobile phone to call the wife and kids no matter to these little diversions.

At least St Michael, was open so went in to rest.

At the entry table was a hand written appeal to visitors to reject the Lisbon Treaty again all of which writting was true and made sense.

I replied with my own additions and hung the natice on the church bullitin board where it would be safe from confiscation for a few days ason the table the piece wouldnt last long enough for the parishiners to read it.
The priests and Decons and good ladies of these churches do keep an eye on things and a political announcement is not accepted bythe Church as appropriate except in the most extreme cases where they will make an announcment from the pulpit during regular services.
Prodistant and Catholic alike.
But these pronouncements are rare.

The churchs try to maintain an alofness from daily life.
Street life survival life.
Birth and Death being acknowleged by them with baptism rites and last rights.

What happens in between outside of Martin Luthers Proclaimantion is not recorddd or openly addressed.
God cannot interfere in daily life although He is in tocuh with our every act and move. and like his Lordship gets reports for the gat keeper St Peter.

I got a candy bar at Landis on the corner of King and Church for 50 cents and ate it as went on home.

It is unusual for candy t obe reasonalbe in Ireland as it is usually American Candy and therefroe imported.

So you pay imported prices for it.

As Ireland has long been a milk producing country I am wondering why there is not a local chocolate brand.
But much of the butter pats are made from milk for the Eu.

So I guess the milk is being imported from the continant as well.

If there is a local milk much of it probably goes of to the Paris restaraunts or is being fed the piggys to produce the national food sausage to keep the working population fed and on the way to wage jobs in their machines .

Sitting in traffic burning up the petrol to prove Ireland is a modern up to date country like America.

The other built of freeway sites and hamberger eatery and fast foods and petrol machine burns.

Here they do have adequate public transportation not like the US which outside of massive conglomerates like NYC and Chigago and L.A. is totally dependent on the machine for all survival needs .

And now the two of them ,the automoblie and the computer, both mega giant monopolys, are controllers of thought, movement ,security ,knowledge, comfort and the paper exchange, money.

judi donnelly
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Ireland 2009 pg 89

2009-08-17T09:33:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 89

I went to the Archives again yesterday via the Castle.
The Castle tour was not open-it si free on wensday- but Beaty Libray has a collection of rare books for Iran/Iraq, Islam and Christianty and Buddah.

It also has some manuscripts at its research collection but these like the Trinity Collection are not opem to the public only staff or a regulated study ollams and such.

I have the email and may be able to find out if they have any info on my AD bishop Meic Liac mac Ruad Dairmata ,a Dermott probably from the west of Donegal.
These informations maybe there for early church records as well as the Robinson Library at the Anglican Church at Armagh.

I was unable to get there while in Armagh .To bad.

It of course is up an a hill.
Armagh the land of 7 hills like Rome.
It really needs an incline .
I thouhgt it would sell not only the tourists would ride it but the locals if they could get a resident pass card with a reduced fare.
However Armagh is set in its ways.

The town Aed Ruad escaped from in 1540 or so at age 15 is well preserved and in excellent shape.
You can access it via the Gardai station and museum there but I did not have time to do all 3 in one day.

Went on down Ship St admiring the cobblestone work as I do all the old cobblestones of Dublin as to the workmanshipm quality of stone , absolutely straight plum lines of each row-like the stone fences on the Burran and the history of these constructions and how they were made interests me.

There are no signs about them and should be.
Not only for the tourist but for the locals who drive over them with great speed as some sort of a challenge like a bunch of Italians bikers.

The nice new oil based dark asphalt inspire no such speed unless a pedestrain is seen darting out before them.

But the cobblestones bump just insprie a litte extra foot petel to speed over.
Something in the Irish psycic remembered from the back road days.

However as usaul I didn not carefully listen to the Beaty keeper guard who told me how to go on Ship and when I came out the cobblestone Ship St gate I went south, left, and went down Great Ship St instead of going straight down Little Ship St which would have put me on Bridge St south to the Archives.

Great Ship St goes back east a bit and you come out at a cross roads of 3 streets none of which are marked hence you are lost and not know way way to go.

Somhow or another I ended up on Aungier St on either a N-S couridor and that at the Cathederal which I didnt recognise.

However I did nmanage to find a local fellow in a cleaning shop where the workers are all Indian and he knew which way the river was so I was only a block up from Bishop St and the Archives.

I must have either come down on Longford or Whitefriar St but will never know as the city of Dublin for some quaint reason, does not make any effort to update street names or numbers like the rest of the world did 40 years ago. Hence everyone in Dublin but teh Gardai is lost including people who have lived her all their lives.
They know not what streeet they live on but that you turn right at the Centra go up a way and turn left at the Church and than go down the alley tothe red door where the old castle is.

I dont know how they get their pension checks delivered.

The other direction problem Dub has is that many of the old landmarks are now distroyed to make room for new modern glass style office buildings and having apt rises in them and their corner lots sold to the developers usually benieth a street name or a street number as being an estate or building name-

NUA ERIE

To get structure of space with out time floating by amidst the distant foggy mountains and the green knoll of the milk exploitable shop.

At least the new bugaboos of the county line about 50 yards up a drive way ,the old roads to the national roads ,the land and the trailways throughout the countrdside, and by walking along you can come to the next place down the road comfortably.

Not like American where the next place down the road may well be about 10 miles distantce and nobody home at that but the native very british,
These Yanks.
Of course his old Lordship kept a gate keeper and still does to keep back the activites of the road and neighborhood.
This foreign to the old Irish culture which built his dwelling just alongside teh roadway ,almost in it ,with the door always open to great and meet the passerby and know all that passed from beyond and where to.
None of this haughty gatekeeper stuff.

I arrived in Civilized Ireland which I call the goverment buildings which come with baggage storage areas ,tables and chairs, toilets, fairly warm water , couches and easy chairs for the weary.
And an athmosphere of welcome rather than the waht are you doing here thats had in some of the newer facilities.

The churhes reflect this subservience attached with the great fetter chained gates and US steel made locks as though the people of the streets are a mob out to distroy their prosperity and aggrandisment.

I took about an hour of reference from the Hayes books.
People, Places and Dates
But could not quite find out the surname Applottement books in Irish
regarding a location a paternalistic reference for my patronomic, Donnelly.

These are kept by parish or barony names in English so no reference is given for an old Irish name before the English spelling like
Eogain, one of my ancestors ,in English is Owen the E not being pronounced in the Irish Eo combination , why unkonw.

And gain seems to take on a w sound for g ain being in phonetic so the English went with the head for the name EOGain by W Owen why the g became w again Unknown.

E=he ,O=grandson ,gain= phonetic Irsih wen .
There is no 'w 'in the old Irish alphabet so 'g' would be 'g 'not 'w' in sound .
There is no 'gan' so' gain is either a gannet bird or sand. Take your pick.

Eogain is grandon of sand ,or Grandson of the gannet bird.

Probaly denoting either a man who woked the quarrys of sandtone, or hunted ganetts and sold them.
I have never heard of a quarry in Inishowen so the bird is the most logical.
ah the power of the old kings to collect their fees for food and rocks and not one of them ever built a palace but lived in their boothies inthe woods with their birds.
Or in the quarrys with the heavy rocks.
Or on the mountaintops with the camp followers.

And so we do not find them in civilized Ireland amongst the chesterfieleds, reading cards ,baggage checks and hot running water.
Where are they ?

Lf course a project of a few generations to repair the utter distruction the English have done to the Irish language would be worthwhile expenditure of Leinster House lockdown and the EU.

Their language is the key to these people and their past.
And perhaps their future.

However it is chracteristic of the Irish to slur their words.
Cutting of the endings and half pronouncing middle parts of mames and words which they do in enghlish as well.

A laziness of speech deriving from either an attempt to get out a whole bunch of information in a hurry, like the Italians or the north climate which evokes cryptic speech because of the wind ,rain,snow and general need to keep your mouth shut except when eating raw meat from a bone.

However the Professors, who are proficient in both gaelic and english as are the goveremnt employees can, if they want to, convert the Engish into speakable Irish ,even though they cannot spell the old Gaelic.

I know the Archive records can be better indexed in this regard as the countrys greem pages on governemtn agencies and personell all have the names in Elglish and in Irish in great clear tombstone print, not gold ,but very readable.

The residential and yellow pages for business, however, all still in English.

8:14 AM 8/16/09
[this is the typing time apparently monitored by micro on untitled notepad]
(this comp is not hooked to ineerent but only widowns 95 no longer viable program .Damn Spys arent they)

judi donnelly
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Ireland 2009 pg 88

2009-08-17T09:31:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 88

I came across Oxfam Book Store yesterday and gave my diatribe on Darfur and the children thereto.
Completely deprived of knowledge. Growing up beset by desease and sheleteror food deprivation and why in 25 years time Mankind would wonder why those young men would pick up the gun and kill
Africa and each other as to what did they want.
To be treated like human beings maybe.

She listened regarding the post office; the charities refusal to carry in books; the Swiss carlessness ast Chads disconnect by mail with us do gooders, who if they had a post office at camp Kutunga could easily send them books blankets, clothes ,food knowledge, cell phones ,lap tops, school supplies, paper,, pens shoes, misquito spray, hair brushes ,tooth brushes .
Civilized life.

Tools to chop fire wood but no Neither the Swiss who are comforable in their nest nor the Charities who dwell on their valubleness to mankind by collecting millions -half of it to suppport themselves- not the poor.
And this set still the young falling for the parent nest sit on the bridge with the paper cup and it used to be tin.

We are now to poor to have tin.

We the paper tiger people are as throwaway as the products we produce none to last for archeologist or museum pieces.

Life will end.
The bomb will end the paper cup society and the museum will have an empty room.
Under this room containing the planes hanging on the central ceiling and the famous queiry of the loan human in his spirit machine.
Which way is Ireland?
Another working trip.

The great computer was not working . It came up no connection to internet.
Very annoying.
Had to sign in 5 times. It cut off after 54 minutes
anyway but I did get a lot of stuff deleated .
So the inbox will work and the JFK ground solved.

You can get the A train to Howard Beach and the shuttle to the Airtrain and there is a ground transport to get you out of there.
No word from Keely yet so sent one up to the mother see if can find out what happened to her.

Than nothing from Lib getting a bus schedule is 2 much for her.
Emailed megster dun the 10 year old and it will get done.

Forgot to reply to the damn good for nothing Embassy over the canal right next to the big money boys the Italians and the Isrialy and good riddance to the bunch of them.

I would like to get the Agreement cleared up but no problem.
the Equality Commission here is not going to amount to much.
Cant mail out the nice bird posters to Peter for 2.70.

Forgot to run up this damn US post office to see what they will charge.

The World Heritage sites will amount to nada .
Some charge for each piece of info they have.
This is Irish and EU goverment service sponsored.
Could be US backed for the charge they have.

The young man shot was a MOLLOY part of the old aristocracy of Leinster.
27 years old.

He owed the Republicans 6 grand and was hired to commit the robbery to help earn back this rapparee money.
Now he is dead.
Shot twice by the Gardai as they both were.

This Independent says the Gardai fired 5 shots at both.
A little overkill and both were aimed at the chest an old british policy.
Shoot to kill and ask questions later also the military code.

All our civilian police now are military trained and ready so none of us are safe from each other now ,especially the bombers.
There is very littel worry about this:
Thou shalt not Kill these days .
It is rationalized for the good of society.

My next trip will be on to O Connell st and Cedar to see if OK to go thru on june 2 and than one more trip down to the Archieves to complete some MS info path on what they have.
More confette.

I will go by the Castle on one of those trips were Aed Ruad escapeed at 15 or so and his friend died in the snow.

I will not go over the Grand Canal half way to Rathmines just to kiss the ass of the State Department of the United States of America.
To hell with that bunch.
If Americans are without funds due to their goverenments policy So be it.
If Americans were kidnapped and murdered by dissidents So be it.
There government cares only for the bread it is able to extract from the mouth of the maw and itself.

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 87

2009-08-17T09:30:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 87

I was disapointed that the Dublin library does not have the little conversion box for floppys that Armagh had so you cant use the american floppy disk here.
I didnt ask if they sell the product to use to take out mails for judiann which has 50 sent messages and god know how full the inbox is.
I need to clean some of it out or will run out of space.

The MSN account flubbed up yesterday when I went to add an address from that contact list amd the emtire email disapeared.
Microsoft is bad. I forgot that.
I should have put the thing in draft before I wemt to contacts looking to semd Nat a copy but the Yahoo account has all the addresses handy.
Well it was my error again.
I know better than to trust the machine or expect it to preform well.

In the time left had to do that email 3 times as it was writing in the address space and not copying .

I have to watch it like a 2 year old child sitting in the middle of the road.
You cant trust it to do the right thing at all,.
You have to stop and check it just as at every turn.
Its a pain in the ass when you are in a hurry or on a time control.
Actully the old machine is little easier to me and as accurate.
I dont know why we cling to the machine actually.
I suppose because it is fast and we expect an instant response.

So far Lib has not answered re Trailways. I think that maybe be over her head how to call and get the bus fare from Rochester and the time the bus comes and goes.

Keely havent heard from in a month and dont know if she is in Atlanta or NY.

The flubbed up MSN was to go to her mom and find out the facts but it didnt go through the machine.

It is the fault of the United States in the first place that I wasnt able to make the money available last as long as it should anyway.
Since this $ is worthless on the international exchange market and isent selling.
No one wants it.
It is not up to par with the currency of Europe.
That not my fault .
Or the Embassys people trying to address
blame this week. Or the socalists making their big explotation of the poor of Ireland.
Over charging and denying basic life support.

Blaming the human for the deprivation of the human which they themselves have caused by their own greed and desire to take more of mother earth than they need.

To be rich themselves and comfortable at the expense of their fellow tribesmen and the innocent food that passes by on the winds of chance into the ever open gap.

It is my fault for being born in America.
It is my fault for having a less than sufficent relevant income pension.
It is my fault for daring to move out of my own old nest.
It is my fault for working.

This is a working trip ,not a vacation, not a tour.
A trip made after years of exclusion. A life time of exclusion. To meet realtives to see the land.

Not a pleasure tour to relive pasts as he elite themeslves particpate in but a planed design which, with no help from the goverments, I have almost succeeded in carrying out
without fear of losses for their own internal defects.

I did not get to go into the midlands because of this created money problem.
I did not get the time I should because Daft and the local desire to make a fortune for shelter bringing me into a 12 day trip instead of the planed and desired 6 weeks of semi relaxed livng.

Again aggravated assault.

Keep the victim on the run by a whole army of camp followes.

And so they think life will be better when the golden sea bird lifts off for rat race NY and debilitated Chicago and deficient rural America.

It will be as aggreressively bad if not worse.

Survival amidst mankind .

One of mankind.

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 86

2009-08-14T09:31:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 86

Some fellows car was booted her on MorninngStar last week.
He hailed from Limerick [Limerick plate].
Poor fellow a parking boot.
Here he came to Dublin parked on a back st and got caught anyway.
It was there for 3 days but when I went down Sunday I see the parking truck there came to removee the yellow boot so I guess eis friends got him and his ticket paid.
When I came back the Limerick car was gone so I guess he will not wnat to come to Dublin again for a while.

The auto has made Travelers of all the respectable Irish but the Travelers themselves after maybe 1000 years of roaming Ireland are no more.
Now living in trailer camps int he Burren or other communites unseen by the rest of the ntion. -- Fitting in.
They have a bad reputation for getting in knife fights like the Gypsy and the farmers tend to run them off if they are parked nearby.
But not town now have a camp spot they know they can go where there are public toilets, sports events places, and make old fair spots fishing spots.

The Colorful wagons now are gone and not even one in the National Museum or the Railroad Museum but they tend to have the motor home or a caravan about 20 ft. Small and compact.

The governments moving them into permanent housing and a great loss to the tourist as these people know the countryside and the places and the way and how to survive inIreland.
A backpakers dream guide service.

However they dont seem as a people or clann to be interested inthe modern town guide ,Gurka of Ireland industry.

The big buses are running and those towns if you have booked there and come in all set up to see the country that way and they make a grand or so US.

You can take in all Ireland, city and country, in about 2 weeks .
live well, lean well, and get your moneys worth right from the airport.

No way our cash exchange rates, homelessness ,and potato and saugsage lunch. Perfect for the well of Boston Famine Irish who are now 5 generations later, doctors, lawayers ,politicians ,semi profession teachers, and such who dont have any restriction on spending a thoussand US dollars for a vacation.
Many were of the Ireland of the Famine and Revolution.

As I say It would take at least 2 years to fathom this country.
To understand a semblance of it and its people and places.

But all moneyed things must come to an end and with proper proceedures in place I should go thru Irish security in a week or 2 more and fly back to the great good for nothing north american continet.
Its food panty and free mission beds and make accessable computers and the hopefully paid for section 8 apt in the midwest.

Kathy says she paid the rent.
But I did manage to open the account yasterday and the balance seems too high if the check had been cashed.
I think I can access the individual withdrawals online but it will take forever.

Today i will try and do some of the geneological project in the National as I did that in Hayes MS at Archives and the records will produce the info I need to cross the threashold from within of the seach.
Meic or mac Liac does not come up nor does Ruad nor Darmata the old Irish names .Nor Echtigern Mac Ruad.
These are not available in the 18 century compilations.

Only macFirbis may have these, o rRahilly.
These MSs may have some time to open this week but it is a long walk over there.
I need to find out of the MS microsfilms are available in the US system or if they can be purchaed by University systems.

Newberrys in Chicago might be able to obtain some of this or the international student system.
This is big money.

As to the good for nnda US they finally ,after 18 days ,announced part of the punative punishment system for running out of my kind of money overseas.
Apparently the Embassy is not empowered to lend money to its citizens on any acollateral.

They are not a Pawn shop.

What the proceedure is when you go near states is to harrass all your friends and relatives as to their responsiblity to feed and cloth you.

Access all your private or government resourses to convert it to cash for instant use.
Like auctiont he family home, borrow more on the morgage, cash in the
cds and retiremnt funds ,confiscate the social security check ,apply for public welfare in your home state.

Buy the most expensive airline emergency return ticket the can find ands confiscate your passport ID ,citizenship until you pay them bakc whatever $ they decide to spend from the taxpayers pot of gold regardless of your own personal loss.

It is not their moeny and they have no other skills in life but to waste someone esles funds to aggranadise their own useless position.

Thank God I had brains enough to stay the hell out of their ballbrigean 50 ft of territory and remain in hostile but not complety autocratic old Ireland for the 3 weeks till the ticket comes up in the normal fashion of airlines electronic travel.

When I land and pass US customs I wll enter a state.
New York specifially and be out of the US government territory.

They will hvve to respect the Govorner of NY state and have limited jurisdicton of people in states.

Holding only the Embassys roudn the world and the district of Comumbia and the protectorates like Guam and Purto Rico as soverein US government territory and of course the miltary bases througout the world.

They did give back the Phillipines and I think Midway and Mexico.
So if you are out of the glorius US of A as a tourist or a citizen be sure to stay the hell away from the embassy if you need help.

They are useless, distructive and punative towrds you for needing help as a human being.
Better to rely on the good will of your hosts or the local banking system.

I would get better loan here for the 90 euros from AIB bank ,or Uslter bank or bank of Ireland the the great and glorius National Citizens Services.
The services are for themsleves not the
american people.

i dont know what they do beside take up space and spend other people $ on themselves.
So far they stillhave failed to come up with theBi-lateral agreement on Social Securty both the US and Ireland.

It is probably online but would take a 40 hour week to find anther 40 hour week to read and at least 6 euros to print out at 20 cents a page copy fee here as compared to the 10 cents in North America.
The consistant 50% inflation rate here.
Paper costs more in Ireland as does ink and the a machine.

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 85

2009-08-14T09:29:00.001-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 85

I found Sullivan Bere in the old #2 Kildare St display that used tobe a heraldry shop and the Archives not so.

Kildare St has the National Library which is being revamped.
The National Archeologocial Museum and Leinster House which is a secret location withthe Gardai.
Than it goes on down to Stephens Green which is acceassible from Norht St and the west entrance across from some big glass place.

Had my potato and sausage there with the pigeons and some old fellow feeding them and lots of tourist with kids or maybe Irish with kids having the sandwich on the bench .
Someone took my picture.
I guess he was an American tourist as he asked if it was OK to take my quant picture sitting on this font with the birds waiting for a bite of my little baked Irish potato with tea.These make an excellent lunch on the road the small compact Irish potato popped in the microwave for 2 or 3 minutes and with a bit of salt and maybe some peper tasty when cold just like a potato salad and with the 60 cent national sausage you cant get a better lunch than that and there are almost impossible to get cooked outthere.
There are no more microwaves in Erie than there are BP machines .

I told the photgrapher that it was a free country spontaniously being of course what a yank would say.
An irish person would find out who he was where he was from and how much the photo would be worth.

One Centro by the library housing an asian people, very light, beautiful and i might go back and find out which country thay are from as more of these are needed.
An aristrcratic asian not Viet nor Thi or China perhaps Cambodia or Burma.
I will try and find out.

Than the Caputchin Kitcheh cooked 2 of them one of the ladies too and it is hard to get the ladies to take the inniciative in this country.

It is still male dominated.
You have toget the chiefs permission and what he says goes.
Himself of couse.

But this is less stressful than having to sit on a bench with a Floridian for half hour to find out if you should go right or left at the next turn.

The Irish male is direct and staight forward and in control of himself.
He thinks and hence quite helpful.

He is geared to making decisions whereas the girls are geared to carrying
them out like good reliable secretarys.

Even the Sisters have problems with womens lib thinking.

I got on to Kevin St ,which is Culp St, which is south of York St which is Butler st, and the old english division of streets into the former landowners right of way makes those not familiar with 2 centuries old ownership history always wondering if they are lost.

You are not lost just in the York estate headed for the Butler estate or on the Culp place headed for Kevin and this disorentation is now even more aggravated by the new cosntruction of the Irish version of sky scrappers.
Being office buildings, condo apts, which,are half American and half Russian in Style.
With of course the Irish gate and spear fence guarded by the spearman and always with a 3 or 4 way cross street of traffic coming along in several direction to or from a national road.

All this national roads follow an old N by NE and so forth route.
None but the motorway M roads ,which are ugly and like the cinder blocks, do not fit into the landscape but blot it.

The old roads continue without the 8 ft headgerows to keep of the wind from the seas.
However theyare pleasant to travel well kpet and hit all the marked towns and the touring spots now.
And my favorite is of course N 17 downthe Connact from Sligo to the the heart of Galway.

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 84

2009-08-13T09:42:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 84

The 1916 Internment camps fpr the Irish Rebels were at 8 locations:

knutsford
Lewes
Wardsworth
Wakefiled
Stafford
Glasgin
Perth
Frongoch in Wales

Some of these were in Ireland and most in England where the men were held fron the Rising in May 1916.

Some were released in August after 3 months and others by December 1916.
Some 6 or 7 months.

None of these volunteers soldiers were charged with anything just held without trial in the hated Internment style.

They were not really considered prisoners of War by the British command, but as criminal elements and rebels against the Crown.
Dissidents, poorly trained if at all. Rabble.
And they were that from centuries of oppression, poverty and tenant lesser people status.
The mere Irish.

In June of 1917 those convicted of crimes were released after their year incarceration.
I suppose the rest had been shot.

The Proclimation itself had been signed by the leaders on 5 March 1916 at Liberty Hall in Dublin .2 months before it was heard on the steps of the OConnell St Post Office.

From 1917 till 1921 when the Treaty was signed ,a tenative truce was held between the fully in control British Army forces and the Volunteer forces during which time the 1918 accord was held.

The first world war was ended and the Empire continued.
London bearly quelled unrest on the western shores that being the old kingdom of Ireland and having arrived at Agreement with the French and the Americans as to how to divide up the world territory vfavorable to the Empire.

It took Adolf Hitler of Austria to bring down the old order and its vestages still clinging like Spanish Moss to the tree of Empire.

The deserts of Africa and the Middle East, The mist of China and the Far East and most of all to the Anglo American
New World Order rules where might makes right and the $ till now has reigned supreme along with yankee know how and yankee prosperity and yankee social improvements and Army, Navy and Hearts and minds and trips to the Moon.

The tree on the right of the Mememorial at Sacred Heart may be an ancient oak.
Its leaf is gigantic and red stemed and has 3 top points and is like a fan fern system.
The tree itself is 200 ft tall and dominates the wall behind it.
Is bark is smooth and lite.
It is to me like a tulip tree.
An ancient breed for sure but planted in this church yard not inthe prison so who knows how old it is.
Not to cut it down and count the rings to find out.

Went in the Stoney Batter Centra on the corner.
Two cocky Irish kids about 10 came in and bought pop with a credit card and got back like 40 euros cash.

One had the crew cut stand up and the other a blond nice plump freckles about the cheeks.

Both were discussing some modern thing not at all absorbed inthe the mighty Indian store clerk.
I wondered if this was the boys card or his moms and she had sent him to get cash back.
I remerked I should marry the young man as he put his hand out to collect the bills but that by passed the young mind and they went out on with the cocky discussion with each other oblivious to a little old lady noting their wealth.

Ireland has some bridge sitters now with the blanket and the cup.
Mostly straying young men.

The lady beggars usually sit outside the church gates or
Centro Stores and these have no blanket but a smile and a request for funds.

They dont make much .
A euro or 2 a day but this is because many of the feeding places charge a euro or more some 3 for a meal and if they dont have the cash they cannot eat that day.

Most of the charity places are Churcc sponsored though and not goverment funded so the Church cannot afford to feed and house them without a stiphend.

It used to be in Ireland that the poor rates were collected from all land holders, tenants included to provide food and shelter for the less fortunate beings and all were taken care of in minimal needs.

There were no beggars except during the Famine and no Bridge siters with paper cups.

In the days of kings and chiefs, each one proviing for his own sept people and family connections and friends, and the country contained hostels run by the kings of provinces and High Kings to provide sheter and food for any travelers in their territorys.
No charge.
All at the benevolence and hopsitality of his lodship and his people who did what the chief requested no qustions asked.

The chief ruled his territory and was elected from among his fine, his derb fine as the best qualified among these to rule.

This system of necessary sustainance continued well into the Norman era and in fact was adopted by the Normans in their castles and incoporporated into the hospitality extended between fuedal lords.

The later English denecrated this stytem restricting hopspitality like the French, only for their own kirth and kind.
Leaving the Mere Irish to fend for themselves and they did.

Each Pub having profusion of food and drink, shelter,- an essentail to survival in the cold norhtern wet climate.

You could die of exposure here in 2 days without the hole in the wall bed of rushes under the thatch.

More necessary to survival than food as well the Famine Irish knew paying to the landlord and his lorship the rental for the hovel cablins and than lying down within to die of starvation.

Eviction was death.
To be put out on the raod by the Bridge stream unsheltered wet and cold, a worse fate than hunger and desease and hence the great hoards of humans at the workhouse lawn braving all hardship and fear of fever to obtain a bed within. A place to lie down and die.

Even as the Famine ships below deck filled with fines of typhoid and dysentry, smells of rotten human flesh ,small loaves of hard bread and no water.
Better the open deck of the atlantic air for the 2 week ,10 pound crossing to hope to a a new world to the statue of liberty ,of equality and justice for all.

The tree is a poets dream.
The tree is the tree that only god can make.
This tree speaks and tells a story and rests on the path between 1917 and the UN forces gates and the secret garden behind the prison walls. Locked.

judi Donnelly
copyright
16 june 2009

ireland 2009 pg 83

2009-08-13T09:41:00.001-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 83 vol 4

I went up to
Arbor Hill today .
Not far just at the end of StonyBatter St and Brunswick.
Up, Up a nest now of houses all quiet near the Sacred Heart Church where the Rising people are buried has a nice memorial up there now with the Proclimation In Irish and in English as well as a UN memorial and a militray history center and rest rooms all of which were locked this Sunday afternoon including the Church gated as well.
The memorial houses many large trees one of which has beenthere for over 200 years and is not an oak or a sycamore but very large leaves like tulip leaves.
Have one tosee what kind of an old tree it is.

This place was the former British prison and all 16 of them were incarcerated there and were taken there to be buried after they were shot at Kilmainham jail south of the river.

There are the memorial ranns inside the garden beside the graves which are in the prison walls and the entry was locked so I could not go in.

The names of the rest shot maybe 50 of them, is written in Irish on the wall across from the plaque put up by Public Works Dept in 1956 and I think the UN memorial later. Like just a few years ago.
These 'charas' are men who gave their lives to free Ireland from poverty, desease, abusive living conditions, and it s lack of knowledge in general and that stuggle began over 90 years ago continues this day with a steady desire to overcome ,to overawe and to belong, to have acceptance and respect.

The first of the cemetary behind the Sacred Heart Church is occupied by the Bitish garrison.
Men stationed there who lived and died in Ireland guarding and seizing this possession for the Monachy.

Centuries of clinging to a foreign nations territory and mind .
The profit and benefit of Royalty and a few merchants.

The entrance tothe Bararracks is right across the street and so no need to go down around the block to get to the gates on Abby St.
This was a blessing .

I went down this drive to the riding school through that hall and was in the Museum right off.

Went to find the missing natural history display there now and just opened.

This was only the bird and samll animal but packed with children and the parents of the Irish as at Armagh Planitarium craving the knowledge of these displays.

All were noisy as is the Irish custom.
Children and parent excited and into the display with fervor.
I remember Eliaabeths memory of the Irish being ignorant and poverty sticken and said no more .

The parent and child are defying that nomer and striving to gain a modern place inthis world, space ,history ,technology, environemnt.

The governments doing a good job in laying out these features for them including the 3000 year old remains of the bear here.

I just knew there were once bears as there were the salmon.
How coudl there be salmon without the waters natural preditor the BEAR.

A sturdy large gray wolfe was on display from Canada.

I guess his lordship did not preserve a specimin of the Irish natural wolfe killed off and made extinct in the 1700s.

The lynx was here and one reconstucted from cork bones.

Skull belonging to red deer and whats on display most - the small bird- the cuckoo, the thrush ,heron ,the eagle and falcon.

Many sea creatures.
Other information of the great coastal shelf surrounding Ireland .
10 times as large as the island land itself and full of marine life, plant, animal and so forth.

Some studies were done of natural resourses and I was trying to remember the king of Munster and Ireland who persued this in his day but he ecapes me right now.
He was the one who fell of his horse while exploring the mines and broke his neck.
His son was the same name and also became High king.
Adammeyer it was.

This continental shelf may be the reason the Ocean does not give of a salty smell on the west Irsih coasts but rolls gently up to the land and the sheep can graze on grass growing on its shore just as they would a lac.
It may also be the raeason one does not feel the presence of great Ocean on this island and tends in few days present there to forget the sea is just aroudn the corner.

It is differnt than the east coast of the US where the sand rolls over everthing for a mile inland the grass is clumped seagrass and unedable and the sea air penetrates inland for 20 miles or so.
You do not forget the Ocean is ahead and strive to get there.

On the pasific however you suddely come to lands end in Long Angeles or San Fransico and before you lies the expanse of deap asure blue cool and serene after the hopeless drive throug the calif ghettos.

It to does not give off the changing I am different sea air smell.
I have never been to Asia.

I than went to find the computer on gallery 5 that held the Honor Roll of the internes for 1916.

Only 2 Mullens. no Tom my grandfather.
2 Donnellys and about 5 Donnolys.
20 or so O Neills, uncountable Kellys, 2 Hogans ,2 Cassidys, 2 Cuninghams and one Lenon .
No McNeices.
The whole family last name on the Honor Roll so I guess that tells me which side I am on ,90 years later.

The Proclimation as well as the Constitution declares a committment to equality so I can use that for my bus pass idea as well.

I went to the 3rd floor to find out who this Gray was.
Elizabeth I think and she was progressive woman 100 years or more ago.
Gray was her mothers name.
She as Scots and born in 1778-1896 living about 100 years.
She was a fashion designer.

I forgot the name of the family estate in the south Cork. Or the Key.

Than I went and tripped over the floor dispay looking around but no harm done. Mo bones broken, no bruses.
About like I triped over the luggage at the airport.

Denis to tripped over his own two feet so that is a sign of something comung up.
Maybe the governments will pass out the 90 euros and the leprechan will get his gold back.

I walked home about 2/4 mile. 6 blocks . Had a tea.
Sister served hard boiled eggs and toast for supper and the rooms are not locked on Sunday so am here in my nighty ready to lie down.

Have got the material ready for my walk to Kildare tomorrow AM and will try and go on before I go the extra st and see if can get on this Capel and get the legal aid form and the equality forms and look up the law to see if its useable,

I hope the archives have some research for meic laic beginning 1200, the French era or can say where to get them.

The 1700 can probalby be best got at Coaisland world heritage location.

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009

irealnd 2009 pg 82

2009-08-12T10:19:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 82

In Ireland the smile ,the enjoying the Who are you ,the I am.
The Irish must always be included
They are preformers by nature.
I am ,I exist, I must be recognized.
It comes out in the chidren who have as yet not been repressed.
They express Eleupheria, Freedom
Liberte, Equality and Justice. Automatic. Inborn.

I do not quite understand the Commonwealth States and Ireland the Republic as it exists because of Great Britain colonial change from Empire to Commonwealth of nations 100 or so years ago.

The Indians are all here as Commonwealth people.
As are the Asiatic and African people.
They are obviously given a status as immigrants because of the Commonwealth laws and agreements.

The eastern Europeans are here as workers under EU Community economic agreements as the Irish can also acess the continent under these same EU parliamentay agreements.
The Asiasn from China and S Asia -I have not seen many Koreans- status is also unknown to me.

However the Asianss do not compete with the Irish for jobs.
Mostly runing neighborhood chinese food shops and restaurants and like eslewhere in the world the Asian Community coagulates in an area or street.
The whole street being Chinese or realted groups.
A neighborhood as it were like Chinatown.

The Irish are scattered now all over, not in one place as they are not in the US .
Gone of to suberbia.
Quietly wealthy from previous poverty.
No longer hanging on to the past adventurousness.

All the old chief names and kings names appear on the pubs and on the shops about the streets mingled in with the new ethnic groups and the big corporate malls.

It is to baad Tim didnt send me a few more Euros, if had would take the Eireann bus ride over to Rosscommon and Athlone and Buy a day trip on up to Birr to the observatory or the 27.00 tour to Wicklow on Paddys tours.

That would complete my desired travel in Ireland for this trip and with the plus of the PPS number which acknowledges citizenship right as well as my government claims to be eligibue forr a bus pass, the equality and my application for appeal re the Irish governments homesless emergency suppliment program which may go in a year or so to Court and my equality hearing over Daft and Glakin and Jordan and upddate on line we may end up with status after all and have at least the rights to come and go.

As usual not enough time and not enough money to address these major issues.
I will be lucky if I get any reference on Gilla at all or any lead on the 1700 and 1600 ancestors here or on line from geneology .
The local ones are free .
The online foiled the 50 E nobody has to pay.
To bad didnt get into Coaisland World as that might have paid of .
No way and into the Robinson Library at Armagh as that to probably had the info I want.

The good ladies at Ulster tourist bord on Dame st is it well right around there maybe its Naussa,were real good re the lost karricmore heritage site we couldnt find and gave me a nice well put together book onthe Sperins generaly.
Little info there on the online site.
The north has a lot of history to offer both anglo and irish both old BC and early Ad.

They were a bit upset at finding out someone giving a Derry tour to Donegal as these are not into political crossing the border from Belfast or Derry with a Republic town .
Although Paddys Tours of Dublin does go to Giants Causway and Belfast out of the Republic.

I suggested cross border tours were good for peace and reconsiliation process.
They didnt see themselves as in conformity with the Republic but with the republicans of the north when in reality it is this split in the islands continuity of land and economics that causes the conflict ,not the political views of each goverenment.
The example of this new success to the Battle of Boyne site from Belfast was promply countered by Ulster Bus access to that site from
the Belfast and parts in the nortth and therfore a tour was not nessessary.

I got a kick out of these ladies siding with the ladies of the south about responsiblity for my financial conditon as resting upon the tribe and family not the governments ,US included, and then a coresponding 'agast' reaction at being broke and shocked I had 'spent all my money' .
Something they would never have come to on either side of the divide not prodistant or catholic republican or unionist.

As it were the leprican with the pot of gold from the norht was the proper course to resovlve the finanical crisis and neither the dear sweet thing nor the goverenment have any sence of responsibly for the infliction of their wars or circumstances beyond the control fo the individual.

All are happy with the leprecan and fairy resolution of this problem and the little people statement to pay the bill when it is convenient.

Fairy wisdom and power still prevail in goverment and ladies circles on this island in complete nagreement as to proper resolve to crisis.
The parent bird should fly in with regergetated food and the nest become quiet again.

judi donnelly
copyright
16 June 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 81

2009-08-11T09:34:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 81

Aften Trinity went to mc Ds .
No place to sit there.
2 storys of it .
Ate my sandwich drank tea and than went to get the 1 Euro sunday.
This time had the strawberry .

That place must pull in 10 grand a day so thought of the poor dead truck robbers on the poor deteriorate westside.

They picked the wromng side of town to rob to begin with when just on this river awaits the tourist filled mc Ds with an Irish sidebar right in the heart of Dublin 2 and they wasted there lives and dreams to take out a money truck on Lurgan St an alley.
No senior citizen plaming to that area.
No Bills Sykes and Oliver Twist and probably not even a good pub plan only a north side gang of starvees and welfare regects.

Ah well the story had been pulbished and thats the end of it as we all head off to the next occurance in the nest.

After that hit the church tourist service re the free tours the libray local and the bus route.
Poor lady.
She did find the bus schedule and hopefully the bus went up Gardner ST.

I than got absorbed in looking at the products names and the history and that took me an hour.
These were a rack full of key chains with a Irish family name attached to them.

Some of them Ok but the Donnelly one said they are decendants of Niall 9 who was killed in 925 at Clontarf. Murphy made these.
Niall was killed in France in 405 AD before St Pat came to visit his son Laogaire in 432AD.

I didnt look a the the O Neill one.

Perhaps I should have and Hughes was gone.

Denis says it is Welsh but Aod is Hugh in Irish so Hughes could be Irish or Welsh or even a Scot.

However they did have a big estate there in Ulster north and some of them are still living there so as it was said Sarah Agnes married well and this one of the 6 sisters who did.
Except Brigid and I the most flambouant life of all with Elizabeth the emmigree that all to be put on line.
I guess as cant really find a publisher for a print copy to be sold.
And the copyright fees are outrageous as well.

This one will be hard enough to type up for Blogger when I have time and this trip is ended.

I am thinking of Blather.com where the Board got one the Carrowkeel writings If have time to do it next week. Maybe get that done from here. The Journals one.
Its with me on floppy but maybe cant use the floppy to transmit here without a conversion box and if can need to clean out some of judiann22 anyway.

2 notes worth of stuff and the half of it unread and unanswered.

I than came over the Halfpenny Bridge of up Mary St to Ilac all surrounded by a wall of people.
Students and shoppers and in the middle of Mary St some hawkers for one of the candidates as to why we should all vote for him.
I think it was the Fine Gael one.
They have money.
No one was taking this flyer.
Probably because no one in this crowd registerd to vote.
Being mostly tourist and international students.

I thought of aging if I had to have' habitual resident' 2 years status to vote .
But by than too tired to take any more wemt to ILac sat on the crowded bench.
They have 2 or 3 and need 6 or 7.
Than went on up the road toward home.

When got to Spar went in to see if could get a sausage.
However a sausage was not on the list pf prices so had to ask.
This young Indian said I could have a sausage for 49 cents which was a bargain so I got that.

He probably hadnt sold a saugage all day.

When I came out of the shop with the sausage in a napkin to munch on, as I walked, an about 60ish man with a green tie, a perfect Irish suit, and a nice Irish pin and cap said my bag was open and I needed to be careful.

I told him I had no money to steal and as long as they didnt grab my saugage there was no probem.
he said
'they' didnt know that and he was giving me good advise since he was retired fromt security of the Defence Forces.

I thanked this Uncle Paddy recruting poster for his warning and went on eating my 49 cent sausage as I went noting how quilcky the Irish in general note an open bag flap and announce it to each other for fear of the robber grabbing the bag on the street.

In NY and Chicago a bit more cocky with the bags flopping along but usually thrown over the neck so that if the robber grabbed the bag he would get the whole body as well dragging along screeming bloody murder and of course slowing down his escape to a crawl if at all.

The Iirsh bag if at all seems t obe unnoticeable while the English bag comes with a large zipper across it and has no straps so it cannot be put over the neck but must be lugged along like a suitcase and put down for most every tea or shop where the hand is needed for other pursuits.

The student bag on the other hand does not exist.
The backpack male and female being hooked behind on the sholders all zipped and neat and if there is money invloved that being neatly ticketed in a front pocket for instant purchases.

The wave of the future .
Donuts on charge and for clothes a jacket inthe backpack. The student ID. The bank card and cash in small amounts in a front pocket like a kangaroo puoch.
I dont know where they keep the laptops but the cells are with the hand pocket equpipment or at the ear while walking ,talking ,buying or eating.

They do not' get' the students.
They are in movement and they are together 5 or 6 as a group.
Several languages spoken in these respective cliques or if they are Irish an intimate style of converstion between 2 males or 2 feamles.
Very seldom the 4 together mixed.
The still strong influence of the Church .
Separation of the young sexes for their education.
They are not used to each other as are the continetal students who more readily accept platonic intersex realtionships and coverstions without the considered application of reproduction.

The Irish avoid reproduction but it is in the back of their minds.

Better to stay with your mates in easy discussion than preform ritual moves for the opposite sex.

The Irish reproduction is thoroughout orderly when they consider obtaining a wife and family in the same way they consider buying a car or renting a flat.
Status included and a plan carefully discussed for 10 years before hand and finaly activated at about age 30 for fear the sex drive will leave them before they manage to egect a child or two.

And their female counterpart just as comlpeate in this business as is the male and the sister and brother, parents and grandparents and of course the local publican.

However th birth rate is maintained.
The children sturdy and healtful.
Innocnet, straight forward, unfetterd and alive.

A cead mile failte group by nature always wiliing to say their name .
To inquire after you .
To include you in this real and subject anti-tribal world not worry about the open bag, the robber or the sausage price but belonging to Ireland and to the present.

Visiting them is good for the Spirit akin to going in depression or morossness into a Greek Restaurant and being greated with
'How are you today Misses
Coffee?'

Eleupheria!.

judi donnelly
copyright
16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 80

2009-08-11T09:32:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 80

I went down Dame St past Trinity College which already had a big crowd going in its Nassau St entrance.
I wondered if they charged to go in.
When I got to Kildare and recognized it and turned right down there a bluilding on the corner said Embassy du France and I though how nice the French had an embassy right next to Leinster House vs the US Embassy way out in the boondocks of Dublin.

In noting this more or less out loud some nice Irish fellow behind me asked what was I looking for and I said I thought that building was the national archives and it said French Embassy.
He explained to me that it was the archives as well that building but it was closed because it was Saturday.
I said I know that I was just noting where the building was as I went by.

He rushed to nowhere in usual modern Irish style.
Denis does that too.

It is imperative they get where they are going in fine style and that may be what Denis was tripping onto when down he went and split his head a lot.
Not yet ready to talk about it but I imagine this Irish style of jump and run like a rabbit had soething to do with it.

They leave the resataurants like this, the sports area, the government post, the bus the street crossing.
Ready fire formation.
Not like the Americans and British who linger for goodbys ,Kisses ,further gossip, putting on wraps, and look about to see where they are going.

The Irish know where they are going and in a huury for me to get there and I guess back.

Luckily the good Guardai was on post at Leinster House gate-still unacessable to the public without invatiation- nothing like throwing your weight around-
I than asked her how much further this museum was on Marion and she said its closed and has been for 3 years.
That was news so I went over my undated pamphlet on this which said nothing about closure.
She told me the displays were now at Collins Barrachs or here as I had not seen them when there last week.

Apparently this new display is just opened this week.

So I went to the National Libray and began the geno search.

Was intention to start tomorrorw the Monday my last week for Eire, hopefully undisturbed by goverenment upsets from the US and the UK and this Eire, who are perfectly willing to leave us alone as long as we have $$ to spend on them.
The hungry birds of the nest with this open mouth waiting for the parent to fly in and drop the regurgited food into the littel beaks and than we begin again.

This revealed the Hayes Compilation of MS records on file in this libray going back to 1200 AD.

Some of which was able to write down.

These are separte contracts, bills,an dsuch with the name Donnely from 1200-1299.
With this MS # can get the mictofilm for it and the translation and read it in the read room.

The mcFirbis docmuments cames up .
Leinster and Munster kings genos and thats a valuable document all told.
I dont know if his Hy Maine reads or in this one.
Apprently he wrote several and these are not accesasable in the US collections.

I enquired if you could buy the entire mcirofilm of his work but the librarians said thiey will copy a page for 50 cents so we still arent clear if you could order and purchsase the micro and brihg it home on the plane vs having it shipped over to the Newberry Libray in Chicago or something.

He referred on to another Hayes Compilation on 'subject' but I said I would realy liketo know if this thing could be done and how much it would cost before I did a lot of reasearch on it.

As we might not have much money to begin with so why waste time finding out the proceedure and then not be able to pay for it.
$25.00.
So allowing for inflation of 50% for Eires valuable papers, plus the innicial idea of like 100 euros being a good base price, the entire Micro on Leingster and Munster plus his Hy Maine work all translated by my friedn John Donovan would proably, if availabe at all ,run like 300 euros and the shipping fee and it might be in Irish not English so that Donovans traslation not be readable anyway.

However by Irish eyes valuable like Kells just in it see some possablities

Like the Cathach or the Jewsish book what is it carried before them into battle. The Torah.

O Donnell lost the Cathach and I think this Royal Irish Society has it.
I must email them about the index.

I wont have time to got there.

They got a lot of valuable Irish stuff like Oxford and Bodelian in England.

Just to get through the Archives refeence and the Libray will be all I can do and I am sorry couldnt get the Robinsone Library in Armagh yet.
Maybe can email them when get homeabout
the Meic biography book.
Maybe can email them before a leave and they will answer me.

Meic Liac should come up in Hayes 12 century book under Liac or meic or Mac. My good quarring bishop.

After the library cosed at 12.30 went over to Trnity to see if could get in this libray.
You cant .
It is restricted to students use.

All the international students can get in.

I should have signed up for an IU course for 300.00 and got the student card before I came.
No senior discount in Ireland just the common travel area free bus pass for over 60 live ins.

The secreatry did give me an email for Trinity research later.
The Kells ticket did not get.
In fact I didnt even bother to find out how much they re.
Sister must have her money.
I dont know who owns Kells lately.
Trinity or Church.
However it is a money maker like mc Ds on Grafton St.

The place was so packed with goods for sale and international students took me some crowd manipulation of excuse mes to get out into the peaceful green and up to the exit area.

Once there, stopped to read the notices and a lot of great scollorships were being made b y Trinity and U of Dublin for student themes and doctrateds on to US University of Michigan at --

I didnt see any IU ones.
IU tends to like the near east students.
Than went to look at the lonley room built for Douglas Hyde, the first President of the Republic and I think the founder and provost of Trinity.

He is a round headed man, very anglo looking ,but an interesting mustache coming down over the lower lip area with a curl not the short over the lip mustache so charateristic of the Republican Rebel or Hitlers lone half size obove the lip clip no one esle ever emulated.

The curled portion 18th or 19th century style not gross like the Giarabaldi eastern mustache but neat and in good taste.

He is a bit balding as well.
Perhaps the Maoil linage.

On the lsit of patrons funding the little remembrance room I alone dared enter is a Joe Donnelly and his wife a Joan maybe and I noted my usual prarie dog pop up of Donnellys here and there on this plain like the little prarie dog sitting serenly on the landscape peering out over their territory whrre you least expect to come across one.

My most memorabe one a member of the Qwueens Own Rifles on the board at Qweens Park Museum in Toronto, Ontaros.

Captain as well and we have one in Hayes a vice Admiral for the French I believe. Granted arms from the ODonnell family.

The French spelling it Donley our ley again the French word for Law and Dan
the song of law.

Tahn there was a Reverend Bonadventure Donnelly of the Caputchins under Benedict 14 on June 1726.

Only one Pat at Pomery ,and he gone to America.

It will be hard to pin down Owens parents from 1775 or so but Irish World in Coaisland is the proper contact for geno project.
Will get roudn to this eventually.

Couldnt get Al to drive me to Coaisladn while out with him.
He like Denis is not interested inthe old dead family.

He was at last into the heritage sites as Denis is into the language and I dont know about the rest of them
so far except my good friend Reigan who wants me to help him find Dr Who.
I havent hdd time so far.

He aint in Dublin so onto google.
He maybe an international student with a discount card.

Judi donenlly
copyright
16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 79

2009-08-10T10:18:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 79

iIstarted out yesterday in a hard driving rain about 9.15.
My first Irish rain.
The wind was swift from the east and the water drops large and warm.

The streets were swimming and there is no way to keep the shoe dry.

Boots are the necessity and it is why one sees the famous Irish farmer out at the auction and his foot in what we know as the wellington a large rubber boot the knee boot we associate with mud and muc.

These worn characteristicly for the days work as one never knew when it might pour verciferously.

When I got to Capel St I was expecting the overhang patio of the Macro Community Info Center to be a shelter spot where I could ajust my pants legs and roll them up.

However they too have this damn Irish steel gate dropped down to cover these little sacntury areas leaving the rain pouring directly down from the eves to the street.
Spar I can see, or Centra ,or the thousands of shops bearing robable goods.

The irish fear robery in debth and have spend millions on these rollabe shop gates.
I dont know who makes them probably the Americans as the are common in NYC.
But you never know they may be a product du China .
Theymake everything else in the modern world of consumerism.

I doubt if 10 people in this country have an idea as to where these shop protectors are made or why they are needed.

However at night the entire street is shuttered in steel and the do resemble the French castle drawbridge of the 1300 ADs halfway, and halfway Joliet prison in northen Illinios.

They do not have the barbed wire a top yet but that is probably only a lack of technicaa ability to roll it up ih the daytime.

Youth will soon rectify that as they acqure the enginering degees as well as the lazer lite to identify the passerby or loiterer or if they continue on the exploited run in place ,the sleeper curled up along side the building because he or she could not negociate movement any longer- a genetic defect created by God- and unaceptable in a man made money society.

Animals may dig holes but man is Verbotden to sleep with the sheep, in the alley, or under the awning.

The awning must be protected by steel least it produce productive results and so for the Community Information attitude.

I dont know if it is an incorporated part of goverenment.
The consept was originally a Sinn Fein political party movement to help people overcome social differences with the governments both north and south.

But today it maybe recieving government sponcership.

However theare as valuable as the Bord Failte in service provision.
I came to Abby Syt one of the work wear shops was just opening there O Connors.
so walked in to see if he had any of those old plastic fold up galoshies you put in your purse popular just after WW2.
h
He had nothing that cheap of course but lots of nice heavy 100 euro leakness mens work shoes etc etc etc.

I went croos the street to Centra and not expecing to find some sit down area remembered that place and got a scone for 75 cents and some bags to put on my feet.
My bread bags .
These will keep your feet dry even if you shoes are or boot is soaked.

An old snow trick from the north but there as much for the insultion value of plastic as the dryness.

A lot of seasonal snows are quite wet, almost rain.

I had with me my butter pat and jam so the scone break was good.

When iIwent back out in 15 minutes having heard a lot about the killing by Gardai heer last night or I guess yesterday at noon up on Lurgan st off King.

An attempted robbery of a transport van by a northside gang it said.

Shot by Gardai .
One dead one in hospital and the gang stated it would cooperate with police in any further investigation.

I did not read the whole article inside the paper to get the names of the victim .
Probably a young man and noted the heavy rain inthe merning.

MRemembering his life loss and sheding her funeral tears and than I went on ovee the river at Wellington and down Parliment St to Dame St than south toward the Naturl History Museum which is supposed to be at Merion Square way down there.
I had to pee however.The HB pills of course.
No pot anywhere with nothing open at 9.30 or on a saturday all bldg closed.
As I went on considering finding an ally for emergency use and thinking how much the public toilets were needed in this high tourist area and wodnering why this well run city of Dublin had not any with the 20 cent fee to pee.

However I did see some open door on a large bank bar cross the street and oportinistily went over and got in.

Thank God the barman and the opeing staff only there and they let me use the ladies toilet.

Thank God for the workers of the world who usually help people.

Kindly to know needs ,like to sit down for a minute, or ree quickly, or a glass of water or directions.

They are live and let live people all over the world .Live and let live and usually have had trails of their own which makes them rational and able to control the animal selfishness expressed by their higher up bosses and corporate stuructures
who put out the toilets for customers only signs in the front doors of their business.

Public toilets should be avaialbe in all man made cities of over 50 people.
As I say it is Verbotin for the human to sleep, eat ,tear apart bones, or lift a leg and pee on earth.
Like a mere animal of Gods creation.

This restriction may give him insite into the sometimes religious claim that he is after all ,a child fo the Devil.

judi donnelly
copyright
16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 78

2009-08-10T10:17:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 78

I am off today to the museum of Natural History on the south at Marion Park about 20 blocks in.
Hope I make it.

Than on Monday to the Archives again at Bishop St or wherever down there to get material on the ancestors.

They are clinging to the 4 courts fire there which would be many of the British and Court records for 1700 and 1600.

However I am looking for the country and land records county by county.
I imagine Pronti in Belfast has some and the Irish genoproject if can connect with that.

Would like to connect the 12th century and 1600 Donnelly but that gap may be hard to find.
Than while down that way would like to find the Royal Irish Acadamy and similar college like Royal Antiquities to advise them to index their material which we have in its usual browse state of disarray and no time just to see what they got.
They got a lot of history Irish ,et al.

I dont know about the French area which I am looking for a reference too.
That will take all this week.

Than I hope the decision made to take the last week here from 27 to June 1 five days and will pay sister for that and take up from here on June 2 as late as can get to airport before dark on the 41 bus.

I need to find that bus and see if can get it on north Gardner St off Parnell or if I have to go all the way down to Abby by the terminal.
A long walk with cases.

If so I might be able to go to Abby here, take the Luas 2 stops to Abby and get th 41 there.
The schedule seems to indicate it goes at 4 PM ,1600 hours and get to airport.

I will ask sister if she can accept 4 days at 4.00 than will be 16.00 from 28-1 June and will go out on June 2.

That will leave me 6 euros for the bus to airport if 41 wont take me with 2 cases.
It depends on the driver.
I got down on the 41.

Ireland is not slow to find ways to overcharge the valuable tourist.

And I did run into an American group here yesterday at the Maldon Hotel who seemed happy and unaware of the exchange rates.

I guess they had booked from the US and had all the tours indicated and were checking out for London.

Probably to fly home from British airways which charges twice as much as American and Irish lines.
The Brits like that French attitude all we have is the best and you must pay for it.
I really dont see why anyone would want to go to Lohdon
As the rest of England is nicer. But they do.

Its the facination with the Queens fence.
I wonder if she has the stanley lock.
I doubt it- a good standard Britihs chain and non sawable lock monatored by the quard on post.

L must try and email Keely on Monday and see if she is in NYC or still in Atlanta.
If she is in NYC and set up there can spend the night with her from the airport insead of Penn station.

We love Keely.

The other one should be home from her Japan training session about the same time I lite in NY.
As to Lib
I emailed their good for nothing bus service Trailways which has such a messed up web site would take a couple of years to find ou twhere the buses run and how much it cost to go from Rocherster NY to Elmira and back.

I told my cousin Lib there to dial the bus station and ask the schedule and fare and mail to me.
This may or may not occur next week but if can get off the train for a week and go down will do so.

Eileen is out in Westchester or wherever she is holed up.

That bunch not much use anyway.
Thes are Toms kids and stuck on themselves down there.
Denis gets on with them I guess but he gets on with all of them including me.

Now she has lung cancer.
Probably from smoking but that may be the end of her.
She has a sister and one grandchild and there is the educated boy someplace in Delaware . Another Micheal Mullen.

I am disapointed in Michael who lives right here in Dublin and thinks he is to far advanced in life to associate with a long lost cousin from America.
He and his brother both- spoiled bythe Mullens up there in Tyrone as their parents were shot in 74.
To bad.
They learned nada, the two of them and both have 2 kids.
It will take generations to recover these 4 if at all.
It is interesting that I am hated by them , as fellows whose lives once depended on me.

Mark Stephens out there in ghetto land USA who I fed for his 1st 6 months when his mother couldnt take care of him a nd these two Michael and Adrian whos dad Francis I spent a great deal of my poetic righting at 16 advising him he should find a wife in Ireland and get married and have kids as that was the only way to cause peace and reunite the country.

Francis did take my advise finding himself a nice girl from theRepublic and they did have the 2 kids ,as fate in the end shot them both ,and with out the 2 kids and marriage broker Judi Ann there would be no line of decendants at all for Francis.
Francie they still call him here.

Two sons and 4 grandchildreen for Francie and Bernadette.
It always pays to get married and start a family.
It is your key to the gate of heaven in due time.

Survival, repruduction ,life ,the mastery of Gods plan for profusion of the planet.
Survival and known by the Spirit of Space and Time.

judi donnelly

coppyright
16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 77

2009-08-10T10:16:00.001-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 77

I was able to get off the appeal form from t he library. 55 cents post.
Did get some response from soemone in the Irish government.

I did get my big long PPS # which basically established citizenship and the Burna Nada US Embassy did email back finally .
What it is this the 15th.
I wrote them on May 6, 9 days ago.
Will they lend me 90 euros to pay the emergency shelter and what is the social security agreement with Ireland.
A public question.

Yes or no and what is the outline the Agreement covers.

They are still annonymously insisting I must leave Ireland and enter the US toget an answer to these questions.
Naturally I dont trust them.

Nobody in the world does anymore ,especially citizens of their own country.
I dont want to be rendered to an undisclosed location to a countrr which will torture for the CIA/HomelandSecurity/FBI for a few euros less thaan 90.
I assume to determine
why I came to Ireland.

Dirct answers like:
' I wanted to meet my family and see the country b fore I died .'
Hardly not worhty in the messed up mind of the brainwashed media blitzed modern improved human being.

These people dont even know ther own history.
They have not been taught.T
he Irish geneology is basically that of soldiers and their camp followers and as such ,they still respond naturally tothe chain of command.

If the chief says its so its so regardless of the condition of the chief.

However I am finding the male mind- if you can get it out of its silver vehicle long enough to stare at you with that,
where am I and how did I get here look is in a lot more direct state than the female mind which seems to aspire to inquiry with almonst an animal in the nest reaction.

You get the feeling she may have you for dinner if ya tweek her awareness to much.
Better to go on and remain in ingorance.

The Indian people here run most of the shops.
Are set in their ideas and ways and cannot be bargained with for any change in price or style.
They have no idea what street they are on or which way is north.

I marvel at how they got from the subcontinent way up here inthe north sea without knowing what direction they were going in.

The Asian people are useful, quick, ajustable, practical, able to communicate, resasonably priced , try to help you find your way and will bake a potato in their microwave if you buy something from them.
They are not secluded in a knot and distant
like the american asian communities.

The irish not-they get hystrical over the potato.

It chafs their subconsious memory of going back to povertry when they had not to eat but the potato.
And I suppose that raw.
That they have been taught.

These little Irish spuds which are quite hardy and small fit nicely in a pocket and if popped in a microwave for 2 or 3 minutes cook up to anice bake which can be eaten hot or if cold just as tasty with a bit of salt and great with a 65 cent sausage from any deli and a tea.

The tea is carried with you and is cold an iced tea.
However it is this imp of a street lunch consisting of the potato the sausage-the national food- and a drink of tea sitting about on a step somewhere.

Not like the glorious English the Irish do not set out lawn chairs and portable tables near the river or in the park and break out the wine bottle.

Irish parks are surrounded by large 6 foot spiked fences of Iron poles and gates with long iron work designs the fetter chain and the stanely non sawable lock with 15.95 retail.

I suppose the parks service get these new American Security features at a wholesale price.

China gives good competition with the same non sawable steel with 3 rings on it and these usaul' made in China' logo.

I have yet to see Irish young men standing outside these gates with their saws, hand sawing at 3 AM!
Which is actually 3 AM as the 24 hour time ends at midnight.

1 being the beginning of the day as in astrological time and noon is just that 12PM.
I guesss that is past morning.

Sawing his way into a deserted park containing no bunches of fruit, or no shelter or warm place and probably a few old grave sites from before park days.

Most of the fetterd parks about have signs indicatig a high fine for not cleaning up the dog fecus behind your pooch.

However this is rational as the parks are small usually less than 1/2 acre and that would be o hell of dog pasture in one hell of a hurry.

The rivers are not usaually lined with benches .

However the Liffy has a line of benches within the fenced area which you can only acces from the bridges.
I havent figured it out yet.
A nice place to sit and read the paper or have lunch if you can find the opening to the cave. judi donnelly
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16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 76

2009-08-10T10:13:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 76

I went in to the Capuchin Church on Church St just up above Mary St and the Bar Association and as I was going in the door a young man came to me and said
'excure me. Is this the Jamesons Brewry!"
Did anything look more like a church than that church in the middle of the street!

However I directed him around the corner to Bow St and Jamesons back door on to Smithfield Sq and Jamesons front door .
He was very greatful.

He spoke English but I didnt think he was American.
Maybe German or so.
They all speak English now.
It is the international language.
Only Amercans are a one lananguage people.

They have not answered my letter yet.
To good to write to shelter people.
They are still insistant I cross the border and enter their territory and leave Ireland.

Meither government can force me to do that.

The Americanas cannot insist I leave Ireland as I haev Irish Citizenship and neither can the Irish insist I go to America as I have Irish citizenship.

All they can do is threaten abuse and offer directions all over town.

They expect tears and hysteria their stock in trade,disrupt, disturb and distroy.
Howevere I dont see any commmander of the troop newly reporting for duty.

I will not spend time or money to go over to the US Emnbassy to get an answer to question ,will or will they not lend me 90 euros to pay the rent in cash or check.

If I called NY long distance from Dublin I could get an answer yes or no but not here.

They learn well from this obstructionist nest of squalking birds or this Dublin. Probably both.

I must inquire who is OBs latest Envoy is. Get a name .
One of Hilarys campaign managers no doubt.

However there should be a very busy ambassador out that way , attending meetings and dinners ,shaking hands and passing small talk with Bishops and Mininsters while the people die destitutes on the street and citizes de Farge nits out the names of the nobility destined for the guillotine and the bastile is finallys stormed for
Liberte Equality and Fraternity!

Citizen Calahan, Citien Margaret Citizen Donahue vs the Tourist.
The poor tourist not hte rich one.
vs the senior with High Blood Pressure not the young well equiped international student with laptops and cell phone and discount cards for all servies.
Saviours of this 21 Century.

But unable to tend the shops and plant the pratees or survive the cold air of the mountaintop and be buried unidentified in the hilltop cairnes by unknown oglachs of 25 Centuries ago.

Now the hillsides hold the TV tower and the wind turbine.
Blots not fitting the landscape as does the old cairne or the stone rim of a cross or monastary.
Old Ireland survived and belonged.

New Ireland is false and detached, anarchaical and without funtion.

It is a bubble ready to burst based hal way on 18th century English thought and 19the century American invention .
None of it Irish.
Ireland the emerald is no more.
Only the sheep reamain.

judi donnelly
copyrigth 16 june 2009

iRELAND 2009 PG 75

2009-08-07T09:34:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 75

Well today went out to tackle the witches core at Wellington and stopped at the macro Center on he way hoping to get the dictionary
They didnt have and get the definition of 'tourist' before I went.
This turned into some big discussion with a young man who wanted to further explain the habitual residence clause to me in which poetic diatribe he did manage to reveal the legislation on this and I assume it is that or an EU Agreement coverning the condition of workers moving about the Eu countrys and apparently has nothing to do with senior citizen or retired persons who dont come under its powers anyway.

He did however with great time and exactitude ,mangage to extract from the machine[computer] the south central Dublin 7 TDs.
Three of whom have a name and party in the Oireachtach /Dial.
He seemed to favor the independent. A Griffith whose address and email he obtained with another 15 minute search and by than we had advancedd to a discussion as to why the west side of Dublin was in much worse economic condition than the east and south sides which he triumphantly counseled as 'how the cards fell' or as it were a roll of the Royal Irish dice.

The big power elite taking the cream and prize money and the weaker parties getting shit.

No entrerprize zone in Dublin.

However the EU does run an economic development program.

He wanted to go on with the Embassy and Social, however I cut him short which hurt his feelings.

I needed to get down to the Witches coven as they only brew up their poison for 2 hours before lunch.

When I arrived to the empty place i was greeted by a cryptic man about 30 which some smart ass comment as to what I wanted.

I was immediately accosted through the glass by an annonymous and threatening woman not the one I had seen before who expressed a great deal of annamosity towards me being there.

She insisted I needed to get a ticket to the United States immidately.

When I asked her her name she refused to comply.
When I asked for my application she refused to comply.
When I asked for a written determination of all her demands she refused to comply and left the kiosk.

One of the men there was a able to recover the dear sweet thing and she said I would be given a writing and her name was Maargaret.

Princess Margaret I assume of Wellington Court.

It took her 10 minutes to type a letterhead which she signed advising I would be given payment for a ticket one way to JFK as soon as I got 2 independent prices from 2 independent travel agencys.
I thanked her and left.

This policy is INSANE! and the 3 workers I talked to impressed me as being candidates for the mental health program.
Prticularly Margaret who was hardly able to contain her abusive attitude on the job.

As most travel agencys charge 35 or 40 euros to run you up a ticket price sans the buy this type of abusive treatment applied to a person requesting emergency shelter costs payments for a homeless center seemed highly absured and out of touch with even a semblance of reality as how would a homeless person be able to pay out 80 euros to obtain a ticket price to buy a ticket to relieve the local problem of what to do with sheltering the homeless person.

If these ladys are not crazy they are simply cruel, inhumane, vicious, covetous and bent on human distruction through their abuse of power.

Hence I went over to the more modern City Hall up the street and filed a complaint against the Homeless Health Center with a carbon copy to the TD on the list the F Fail one as thats the government currently in power and running the country.

Although I think it is a coalition government and the Minister of Health and Social Welfare may or may not be one of the Free state republicans- again an obscure and not consistant name.
One discribing her a a Heaney and some other Hanan and none having an address ,phone or email
These are her employees.

I had a nice lunch there on the 2nd floor and see this City Hall has nice garden grounds as well for further reference as the weather clears.

I than asked the receptionist if he knew where I could get a copy and he happily made me one on his machine.

The city employees are in much better shape and attitude than the Eire state ones and seem to know what they are doing and are helpful to the building users, citizens, tourists and foreigner alike.

I went by the sign saying Homeless which office was fulled by 50 persons or so waiting patiently to be seen for tranfer payment.
These are people already having PPS #s and in the system needing or wanting to relocate.
I picked up a transfer blue form and left going over to the 4 Courts and went into one of the Court rooms to see what was going on.

This was a small court hearing Gardai cases and some what relaxed only two people wearing wigs the prosecutor and the judge.

The judge who was not identified at his court room door or on his desk was quite bombastic and expansive of what he could and could not do for some woman defendant represented by a woman solisitor who I couldnt hear.

The Court has no microphone system.

This case was followed by a young man who did not pay his car insurance and he was given more time to pay it by the judge so left smiling and happy.

Another lawyer asked for a continunace and got it and left looking relieved.

The Gardai were exact as to the requirements needed to complete the case work and the persons status and left as their cases were completed.

I went down and asked to security guard ,and you do need to go through the entry check all bags, where Court services were at, the clerk and such.
They advised the other end of the block long building.

I started down Chancery St and came to the District court and went to ask the guard if this was the court I needed.
He told me the red brick building
at the end of the street was the place to pick up Court forms and so forth.

I went on up Church St to the Bar and went in for 2 reasons.
To clarify this was the Barristers Association which it was-- like the law society of upper Canada and to see if they could tell me about Legal Aid.

They know nothing characteristic of most
people around here ,but one of the lawyers said the place was open so I went up to Brunswick St and found it. About to Stony Batter.

It is on Queens st not Brunswick but the #6 is not a Brunsick # it is a Quens sT #.

This was occupied by attitude guards an Irish one and an Indian from the
Commonwealth and therfore an EU covered emloyeee.

These 2 would do nothing for me except tell me to sit down at the left.
After a while I got the idea I could sit there a day or two and not be seen.

There was a phone there and I picked it up and got hollered at by the Irish one.
However after while he said to pick up the phone and he would put me through.
I thought he meant to get this address of the TD.
Haughey but got the legal aid bureau so I than figured out I had to tell them the name and case I needed to be seen.

Some fellow came out about 25 or so and advised me the Legal Aid could not give legal adivice.

I wondered what good they were as this is the usual uselessness I find for all Ireland govenment positions or reception.

He did try to explain to me however that the SF required a manditory appeals process an any dicision not agreed with and to do that I needed to go a field office up the road.

Another charitable house.
Never follow any Irish directios as you will be on the Strand to the next Island ,foodless sheleterless, feeezing, wet and lost.

The family services are at Colpa Rd not Navan Rd. the west side center.

Luckily they are not in Sligo or Galway west of Shannnon or in Killkenny as are the legal aid certifictions.

He than advised me that legal aid did not represent in appeals again buena nada with pay.
But that when the appeal was denied in 30 days or more, a court right existed in High Court and this could be filed out of country.

He did not how anything about 'en forma paulperous' or 'pro bono' proeeedings but that is because the board in Kilkenny issues legal aid certificates which they can recind in mid case for a number of 18th century petty offences all subject to appeal as well.

The best way to deal with an Irish court offence ,civil ,would be in the international Court of Justice at the Hague not the high court who would immediatly reject a injury case particulary if it was filed by a 'tourist ' or an american Irish citizen.

The government is far from being a republic but is more of a tribaly paid for, arbitary theatening African stlye dictatorship not even vaguely resembling the old gaelic Ard Feis of kings with chiefs or even the anglo azzieses of the 17th century.

I supsect Irish justice is a joke and hardly funtional and from what I see of the bureacracy not coming close to rationaly for either its own people or outsiders.

It probably, like everything else funtions about on the level of
a rookery.
The nest again.
Full of baby birds teaching birds, squeaking birds, and all grabbing for the flea flying by.

Ireland en total a nest of birds and a ring of metal shelters called autos fleeig about this island on its way to nowhere and burning up millions of gallons of petrol sitting in traffic and there nest.

A nest for americans having the cocky affrontery to think they can change 50 euros a day to do this.

All the condos are gated and locked and none of them have house numbers so no one really knows where he is livign except that he and his metal shelter are in their own nest driving out daily to the work nest and back again .

Stuck in traffic for eons both ways and in a great rush to get there from nest to nest all of which is rightly guarded by the witches who protect these nests from invasion by outsider birds flying from the sea to take part in the rookery life style.

If there are the old solders and fianna of great value and wise to the island other desendants of kings and chiefs and beautiful women that genetic code has long since emmigrated to america and is not now welcome here.

Its cash is welcome but not itself and so Ireland decends to the peasant level of continenal Europe as those students come replete with discounts ,laptops ,cell phones,Bags of groceries and back packs to drink the Irish beer.
Made in england and dream of old chiefs and
kings who spoke a language 'the strangers do not know' and today know not two word of it.
Even though the contry is swathed in modern gaelic.

Business, perscutory abuse ,threats, misdirctions, misinformation, diatribe lectures on why you should not be non-poetic ,help to tranport you away by force ,are all put out in the kingws own English.
Computer print outs as well.

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 74

2009-08-06T11:29:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 74

The homeless on Bow St are all eastern Europeans Pole, Czecs some others here trying to get work but instead out on the steet with the Capuchin Order feeding them twice a day.

They try very hard to speak English.
They are talkative among themselves.
Maybe 200 or more lining both sides of the kitchen and this just one of the town feeding centers here in Dublin.

Just below them are some streets of the fruit market where the big country sellers come in with their product to sell it and distribute it to many Dublin food restaurants and Pubs.

Most of the names there are Irish and most of the workers look Irihs with a few Indian and Chinese thrown in.

All these men need something to do and many of them young and old ragged and rugged.
They should not be allowed to sit around and not work.
Men need to be worked and needed.
They need to be an army and it will come to that in this world again. Regiments of hungry homeless men and their camp following women looking for a place.
Trying to survive all over the world.

Here it is better than Africa and other 3rd world countries and perhaps less agressive than thiS but the money plight is there.

The great corporations and well off staying rich and getting rich while the downtroden and unused become more displaced and less able and in greater numbrers.

Belonging nowhere.

I wonder if these men were once boys in a family ,having parents, being young perhaps with children they never see and cannot care for.
All over the world this is going on.

This system of money.

These men should be on farms rasing crops tending the sheep.
The sheep stand marked in the fields on the green grass.
Thousands of them without a shepard.
Surrounded by the stone fence of the west and the wood fence of the south east and the barbed fence of the north.
Sheep without shepards.

Who owns all these sheep and who own the land?

I went to the museum at Collins Barracks and there discovered who has the wool ..
The defence forces are all dressed in comfortable Irish wool and this is the wool industry sister is telling me exists.
I just havent looked inthe right place.

Looked at Jarvis windows and at Ilac. .
I looked in local charity shops but there is no wool.
So some of it must be on export.
Loaded as Ireland has always done on its docks of fleece uncarded and uncombed to the mills of England and there made into the final product tartan to be sold at high price to the every craving tourist and the men stand on the street waiting for the food to be served.

They need to develope the wool industry here as they did in past curding the flax for the linen.

The North Health Center called today but I did not run to this as they expected. I could not.
I had the library to go to and did that at 10.00 AM.

iIsucceeded in getting the ticket from NY to Chicago on the 4th a day after I land.
However to come in at 3 and get out at 3.45 would be to much from Queens to Manhattan.

When I go there I will need to pick up the ticket and than maybe will have a stop at Rochester and go down and see Lib for a week.

Lots of silly eamils nothing from Tim.

I do want to see if he will help with a Swords shelter for a few days so can go up there around June 1 and take the 41 bus 2 stops back down to the airport at 6.45 lots of time.
Dub airport till about 8 it says.

I will try and open his email about B&B on 14th at 1200.

Apparently if you get the day after you can get the hour but if you try and stay on 2 till in one day you get the 5 minutes.

These Irish are clever about stuff like that.
You have to go some to outsmart them.

I need to clean out some of my inbox too as it must be close to full. No time to figure out here if can use the floppy or not.

I wrote one of my illegable letters to Haney Minister o Social Family Welfare about this goverments inability to cope with emergency shelter.

I have not had time to go after ballbrigin failure to state if they would lend the 90 euros or not.
Buena Nada.
Bush out there too.

These governments live high of the hog on everybody elses money and are mainly useless always on the take, never giving, always absructionist .

We wold all be better of without most of them but than they too would be a the soup kitchen sitting on the curb awaiting a plate of potatos and meat, sans the wine they now get.

It disturbs me when they are confronted with a practical survival need and ignore it.

Like telling me I MUST come to US territory to recieve a glass of water inthe desert.

Triage!

Why do I need to waiver my right to the 1974 Privacy Act to tell my name and birthday to see if Im eligible to be 'helped'
What help?

I wrote these people a letter asking for aloan of 90 euros to pay the sheter cost.
They have not bothered to answer me one way or the other and give me a loan Yes or no?

that would be the day when the US would lend its own people $ instead of borrwing it in the billions from the Chinese to fund their own tea party.

It is a toss up which one of these 2 is the most selfish and greedy.

Anyway the fairys took up a collection in the nrth and sent Denis the leprecan to pay the rent from the pot of gold so sister is content for now and the fairly king will want his money back from one or the other of these eventually or they will learn the lesson of what it is to tramp on the rights of the fairys.

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 73

2009-08-06T11:27:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 73

I met Aidian mcCabe one of 7 children on his cane.
He is 87 and still getting about and he told me most of the history of the area and mentioned the Roayl Hospital south of the Liffy. Advised I take thaat in.

He said most of the bodies of those killed in 1798 had been thrown in the river but the Croppy Acre is now the home of those who made the burial grounds.
None of them known or remembered.

Like my grandmother Sarah Donnelly no notice of the passing or being at all and like the famine dead ,lost to memory and to history.

There is a manuscript to commemorate those who died.
The book of Resurection but I did not come across it.

They say the computer on 5 has the names ofall those intered at Frongosh or other camps in Scotland and England of the men who served the Rising .
These are the internment camps.
Nationalist soldiers picked up and held to keep them off the battlefield.

Most of these released in Dec. 1916 unless they had a conviction and those let out by June 1917.

The Rising itself took place in late April and May 1916.

Most of the 16 leaders killed on May 3 or 12th-- 9 days.

The Declaration and the defeat all within a week or so and half the city burned and bombed by the British forces determined to hang on to this confiscted island.

How it succeeded at all is a credit to God and the men who persued this national freedom and as Yates said this sprit the comaradery and togetherness of purpose and a terrible beauty was born and than they died
and the great war went on and finally Great Britain gave up her emerald ilse in part with the famous treaty dividing the isle and proceeding to establish the conditions we have today.
A Republic clinging to the Free Sate ideas and an unhappy 6 counties in Ulster striving to find itself as Irish or English and clinging to the old Union imposed by the 1798 Rebellion like it couldnt give up .
Old Irish of its empire until the Germans bombed and scraped it out of them in the 20th century.
Ending once and for all the old order of nobility and kings in Europe generally and throwing the wordd into the abyss of this atomic age where we all drift along in our various nests unmindful of the outside world and like these Irish not sure which way to fly or even to fly t all.

Tommorrow I will have my first taste of the Irish government and probably be told to go to hell in a nice way as the American goveernent will do.

Denis will come through and pay the rent here and I wil ggive him a check and in 3 weeks I will go back on this plane to the US and fight my way through that bunch as well.

Life is always that.Tthis stuggle to survive.
The stuggle to find order.
The stuggle to live in the nest and to rest and to find a bit of truth and order and a bit of beauty and trust.

A bit of innocence and than you die.

Good for the old and infirm they become like children.
Trusting and innocent and than they die.

God takes them to another world perhaps
Spirits they become or fairy.

judi Donnelly
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16 june 2009

ireland 2009 pg 72

2009-08-06T11:26:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 72

The Collins Barracks are formerly the British Army Dublin Barrack on Arbor Hill with its prison there is a massive 3 story structure designed and bulit by Thomas Burgh before 1730 ,When he died.

He also desgned and built the library at Trinity College and the St Thomas hospital just across the Liffy River.
By 1922 Richard Mulcahy Commander in Chief of the nationalist Irish Army took over the Barrack for the Free State and it was named Collins Barrachs in honor of Michale Collins the former Commander in Chief of the 1st provisinal goverment after he was shot.
In his own territory near Cork by anti-treaty republican forces.

The parade ground is massive and paved and surrounded on all sidees by this 3 story 12 paned windows of the Barrack itself covering at least 2 acres of ground
On the back of the square is a riding school and more detached walled housing.
Enough to house more than a regiment of men and their equipment.

It is easy to see how the British felt so secure and in charge and superior to the less militant Irish force without who had neither the equipment or training to defeat them.

You could live in such a place for years and never go or associate with the outside world other than gaining provision from it and be totaly content with your state.

In fact the Barrack presents a large nest in itself. Nesting within the troops, out of the wind and storm fogetful aaht an indiginous people waited without for their downfall.

I have no doubt they actually felt loved.

The Sun shinning within the walled enclosure is pleasant and warm.
No wind penetrating the high wall as no wind penetrated the Remembrance Memorial on O Connell St with it high hedge rows and deep stone cross pool and benches.
The Barrack presents instead tables and chairs.
Comfort with properness sufficent for officers.

I went 1st to the 1916 Rising display inside and spent a good deal of time in that viewing the history and papers of the men all killed who made this great terrible beauty for Eireann in 1916.

This was a tremenedous accomplishment to somehow overcome the military order and the imperious army controlling the country as well as the existing subjegation and poverty this occupation presented to the surviving Irish population, weakened and clinging on ,from the famine 60 years before and the draining of its entire enterprising population of nobility, soldiers and hard workers since the fall of the Gaelic Order in 1601.

The museum went on with its diaspora of these men then the Wild Geese. The great exodus of fighting men to Austria ,France ,Spain ,India and even the British Army in a need to survive.
A display of the almost forgotten honorable and successful service of the Irish Brigade to Napoleons forces as he rode across Europe with his glorious dreams of a united French Empire of proletariat kings.

It went again into the great loss of men in the great war of 1914-1918 and finally came to WW 2 and deValeras Declaration of Nutrality keeping the new flegling nation from spilling more of its powerful blood to fight and die for Europe and America and Great Britain and India and finally, to this development the Irish Defence Force now in existance.
Well schooled and trained. Well equiped and capable of handling the defence of Ireland as well as participate in the Nato and UN peace keeping mission in the world with dignity and success.

This was all the time I had this Sunday as the museum is open from 2-5 and closed on Monday.

I was not able to go through the other collections of period furniture, country furnature and a large collection on display of the Airgead Silver and coins.

The famous gold collar and natural history collections are down on the south east Dublin at Marion St.

Much of the silver collections are sacred chalaces and remonstrances from the Fransiscan monastarys
The book ,what was left of the 16 killed and limed and buried inthe court yard of killmainham jail are now reintered behind the Barracks at Arbor Hill Cemetary.

Wolf Tone, the famous leader of the 1798 rebellion against British rule of the United Irishmen was imprisoned at the Barracks and died here.

judi Donnelly
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16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 71

2009-08-06T11:25:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 71

I am at the memorial and grave yard for the United irish men across the street from the Barrachs museum which does not open till 2 on Sunday.

Seamus Heany wrote a poem for them.
These people of Anglo and Native who joined together for Ireland and died under the British gun.

There last stand at Vinager hill in Wicklow where thousand were mowed down by cannon.
Cannon foder they were.

Some of the markers are defaced with grafette.
Daniel and Necole and jack.
Ass holes of this modern world let loose on history from which they derive the benefits.
The benefits of dreams and awareness of life and beings laid down in blood for their comfort and security.

The stones in the yard are unmarked but a nice black and white blue tipped wing birds go comfortably among them picking carefully for food and seed.

The French have a plaque here in what looks like latin.

However the result was Union in 1800 and iIeland today still recoops from that absorbtion.

Wolf Tone was the leader A Prodistant and Anglo in 1798.
But they fought well together and died the
Same and are forgotton in this large field cemetary going round the block a half mile just across from the Liffey at Wolf Tone Quay.

you cannot cross the street here.
The traffic flows unceasinghly.
Buses and cars full of bees of Irishmen liberated by this modern conveyance.
With each other or any other.

The black river flows on behind its wall carring in its water the bog silt from the hinterlands which gives it its deep dark tone.
On to the Irish Sea and the Great Bay and harbor of Baile an Cliath.

Across on the south side are a tower and smoke stacks and storage tanks of the Guiness Brewery.
These silent on this Sunday noon.

It is a day without wind in this nest in the sea and therefore warm and the sun shinning nicely here on my brow.

My nose is running perhaps an allergy afer all are in the sea wind from north America and I am coughing.

I found Bow St and the food center and had a good meal with fruit desert and cream sauce on it.
I forgot my tea today.
However my tummy is full and they will try and take my BP tomorrow at 9 if I pass by.
I hope so.

Mass was said at the shelter and few only attended it.
A child of 5 was chosen to distibute the Baptismal water and he like my Shane welcomed us to God with complete trust and innocence not a bit of affectation or pretence or subduction just as little Shane welcomed me to Ireland what 3 weeks ago and so God prevails even with the resistance of this minister on earth who considers sex the great SIN.
This child from it.
From the joy and the devilishness of it and strife of birth and pregnancy comes the sceaming demanding Human child.

NUA! Innocent willing to try again.
The beginning of the past and the future rolled into one.

I hope all the men lying here unnoticed behind the straight steel fence all had children.

They are here like the famine graveyands unknown and unmarked.

Their history and the stuggles they emoted and thier dreams and desires.
Their communion with survival and the spirit only touched on by Seamus Heany, Irelands National poet now and old man himself.

And so flow on the great Liffy
Black and dark and Regulated
Its waste flows out to the Sea before it
Covered by its many bridges
Walled by its own stone fence
Surrounded its many Quays w
With the sound of horn and swich of motors passing
No bench awaits the weiry trader
No flower dress its banks
No castles run round its shore
And one cannot get across the street
To See it flow. jd

And so Croppy lie down says the great Heany.

Judi Donnelly
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16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 70

2009-08-05T09:37:00.000-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 70

The great Cathederal across the way on north Parnell Square locked and chained.

I went in the Irish Writers museum but they charged 7 euros to see these displays.
The tourists paid.
They love this view of Ireland its great poets and museums.

Its modern American big stores Pennys and Aldis.
Its big English buses and distant attrations.
It is strange enough to be interesting and common enough to be homey I guess.

I went on down to Bolton St not remembering who this Bolton was but probably a war hero and that becomes King St and on about home with my bus map and my referral to the Ceder Nurse on Talbot and my email resque for Monday at 10.

I must remember what computer that is as the time begins the moment the libray opens.
Just rush in get your machine # 9 and go to for an hour.
I hope it will work ok.

While I waited I read over some fo the Irish Constitution but did not get to any article regarding my intent to resist this common travel area excluding of all those with citizenship papers who are seniors for the bus pass or benefits.

Fundimental rights Art 40 ,3(1), 3(2), 6(1);
Articles 45 Principles of Social Policy ;
Article 15 not repugnant to Constitution provisions.
Articles 2 and 3 in the begining sets the principle of Equality.
I didnt write it down.

Iwrote down the EU Treatys.
Amstrich , Maastrich and Rome Treatys here governs some of the social legislation.

The rest has to do with the set up and responsibilities of the goverment boards ,President, Taiosech ,Oireachtac ,Dial Eirenn and Senad.

I didnt read all that or the set up of European comman rights, private property ,and central structure.

I do believe legislation passed is not contestable in the court system generally but must be changed or modified by the Dial members.

But just a bit of time to look over the Document signed I guess the year of my birth.
I didnt get that far but left it on the desk
here for the librarian.
How to procced next Wed.

Well I am hungry not having made lunch at room but my old jelly bread so a nice supper here at 7 will be welcome today.

I have 2 pancakes left for tomorrow in my case and 3 potatoes uncooked.
How to cook the dear sweet things is a mystery as no microwave here.
Will try Bow st tomorrow.

I think they have an early lunch at 11.30 or so. 10.30 to 11.30 it says.
It is west of Church st not east of it.

I was looking to go by on my way to the library but that was the other way.
run by the Capuchin friars.

As far as getting to the airport in 4 weeks i might be well to to go up to Swords and ride the bus back down thah day.
Maybe there is a place to stay up there .
it is from here 14 miles north of Dublin and 3 bus stops back down from Swords on 41 bus I think.

Well enough for now my hand is geting unreadable.

If Denis finds the place at 1.30 on Monday
the sisters will be happy.
Will give him my check for 3 bills US and his cell phone and charger and the calling card that needs to be activated in UK.
It wont connect here.

I sort of knew that but Al was sure it would work here and it didnt.
He is not as cynical as I am and is trusting in the value of others.
But Denis can call all my grandaughters on it and wish them well.

On Tue Id like to track Amtrak and see waht kind of mess they have made of thee good trains out of NYC .
Now its a middle fo the night thing.
May have to ride the bus.
These damn things take up all your time and energy and are Bueana Nada.

judi donnelly
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Ireland 2009 pg 69

I went out at 9.15 to the library and succeded in getting some coffee at Tesco for 2 euros.
so that is an improvement.
Iam so broke cant buy anything right now.
The stores on Marbourough and Henry are full of shoppers this suturday.
The Moore st market all set up with stalls.

It was here on the corner of Moore and Parnell a sign says that Pierce was arrested at the Rising.
Kilmainham is not far up the road from here on the Quay.

I did get the exchange from Tescos customer srervice.
It is 1.38 US buying for euros and 92.32 for the pound selling from Euros.

It costs 92 pence to buy a euro or 1.38 cents to buy a euro.
No sales there.

All the students have ATM cards and Ulster bank is more prominent with its machines than Bank of Ireland on these malls so is At Provincial Bank.Allied is not so big.

I checked the machines to see if they gave the exchange.
They do not.
Maybe if you put in your card it will come up on the taransaction.

I went on to the library across the way at Ilac and got my reservation fot 5 minutes online.
This was because I couldnt or did not register the day before.

Just 5 of 10 get a start on the email to Denis re directions put it in draft and continued but the damn machine did not retain what I added.

Had second start in 1/2 hour for 10 minutes.
This time the machine was available before my validation said it should be so lost 3 minutes.
The computer time being not in sinq with the clock time either my watch or theirs.
Luckily on the 3rd try a half hour later, finally got the email to Denis together and didnt do correctionsto it pushed send.
Hope he can make it out.

Re registered again and got another 10 minutes and opend the email.
One fom Denis good boy.Dublin and said he would come out here.
He was pretty sure I was to just stay put.

I replied I had to go the Wellington Quay in Monday and they closed at 12.00 so I would be back he
er by 1 PM.
Than I shut down the and reregistered for Monday at 10 and got 55 minutes.

Went down stairs to the toilets which are free at Ilac shopping mall and they should be for the amount of sales these places generate and remembered my mMnday to wellington and Denis.

Good thing iIremembered so went back upstairs cancelled the Monday for Tue and back down and ate my bread and jam and tea ont he bench.

Apparently the bench is a gathering point for old Irish seniors and about 6 of them congregated there to discuss the news and times of each other.

They all knew each other.
There were no secrets in old Ireland.

I than went out the Parnell door to see if could find the bus headquarters and get a map of the routes.

On the way to OConnell St I did come to Irish Tours or whatever it is on the main st.

Run by my friend the Minster of Foreign Affairs.
These people were all nice.

The security guy giving me the bus local across the street and telling me to go in to the back to see if could use the free phone number to find out about BP taking at Cedar on Talbot St.

This lady there called and the nurse will be in tomorrow at 10 Could I come than.
I said yes but perhaps so will be at mMss here at 10.00.
Could I come than.
I said yes but perhaps I will be at Mass I dont know what time that will be.

It would be nice to know how far gone I am but with all this walking the BP may not be as out of wack as I think it is.

I went on up O Connell St hill and came to the Garden of Rememberance wherein is the sculpture of the Children of Lir part of the old Danu mythology where Lirs children were turned to swans for 900 years by their aunt who was jelous of them.

300 years on the sea of Moyle
300 on the Irish Sea and
300 on the great Ocean
and when they fianly retured to humans they did old and helpless.

To me this 900 year history of the Tuathas Danu here on this island not the crunchy 30 or 40 years allotted to them by history and mythology.

This great people, Big ,Blond and Beautiful, skilled artizans, and sailors.
Masters of a great North Civilization .
Keepers of the Cauldron and the Stone of destiny and sharing, finaly,this island with the new soldiers of Miles in 1400 BC.
eEecting a long lost oblisk peace treaty.
Perhaps one of the firt peace treatys memorials in the western world. Where the Ultons withdrew west of Shannon leaving the east to their conquers, Eiremon and his brothers and a new era began again in Erinn.

The Danu fading at last like Lirs children into obsurity and mythology becoming gods and mystery.

However in reality they had their peace with the new soldiers .
Held their place in geneology.
Mating and producign the new child of Ireland ,a combination of these two races.
Sandy haired .Blue eyed. Dark, hispanic ,black haired small and large men .
Handsome women and girls and a people skilled in artistic work as well as the arts of War.

Perhaps there are a few pure strains of each left in Irleand but these would be annonymous.
The majority now are half breed of several races and tribes and that may be the national preoccupation with ancestors and finding their roots.

Their relationsip to the Kings.
They are all descendants of Kings.

Irish kings ,Scotish kings ,Kings of England and a part of the old Melisian descendants of Niall, O Domnaill and O Neill, Carroll and Colman and MacCarthy and OBrien.
Old rulers of great provinces all subject childen of their original family, septs and decendants of them both. At that cousins.

The Royal family keeping its rule and now its command in the Pubs and the government and through the ancestor.
Ireland forever!

It takes care of itself as it always has.
Its stray emmigrant members some times included and sometimes excluded.

It is still the elite but not those of its tribes who have not achieved personal success.

You must prove your worth.
You must be heroic.
Male, Beautiful,and perfect.

Ireland strives for perfection.
Human perfection but it cannot achieve that.

It dreams of it but perfection comes in Christ and God not in the Melesian half breed soldier or his respective chief.

The north aire radiates this old seinfinn style of life.
Grandious poverty.
The shops are poor still.
The politics of social improvement the goal still.
The area has tried to come into the modern world but it has gone bust.

The modern world goes up and down Fleet St and temple bar along the OConnell Bridge and today it rested at the Garden of Remebrance along the steps at the statue of Lirs fallen swan childen.

Three boys and one girl, Nualla and along the pond shaped as the cross.
While they waited, the young, for some great event to take place.

The Guardai staked outside about 10 cars ready for what came their way.
Tain Irish and Sein Fien Irish young ,professing their own style of repulbicanism.

I noted that this great body of youth with child carried no laptops. Not one among them .
The signature card of this entire population of today youth.
The lap top and the cell phone.

I read the pamphlet given me on the hunger of the world and its causes written by the party socialst worker and went on.

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009

ireland 2009 pg 68

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Ireland 2009 pb 68

Most of the Churches here are gated and the fetters chain with the american made Stanley lock and tapered non sawable steel chains round thw gate.

The doors are massive if shut and have no handles.
They are oval at the top not square.
The churches are well kept and usually full of penitants praying .

Mass is stlll said here daily.
The priests detached from his flock and in charge of his church.

The Protestant churches are as well locked and old.
No one around.Ireland are particularly notable as prison like and exclusive behind great fences spiked at the top.

A plaque discribing attached to the gatepost announcing the place and perhaps its service times when the gates my be open.
They appear deserted mostly.

The hospitals are not prominent in Ireland.
Being somewhere usually in the outer rings of the towns.
A few kilometers from the general housing and shop contigent.
You walk to the hospital if you can find it.

There appears to be no general Health Clinic about and the pharmacies-called chemist shops here- and big chain groceries stores do not provide BP machines.
The doctors will not take BP but you make an appointment and pay a set government fee with your health card .
Probably 100 bucks or so to take the BP for you.
Bullshit for me and greed.

No preventive medical program here for anything but pregnancy and rape.
That they are trying to end.

Yesterday the post man told me of a health Clinic just around the corner.
The lady there ,who is Canadien, refused to take the BP which has not been taken now for a month and I know it is up and have the blurred vision, headaches and loose bowls with a bit of blood.

I will go from the same upset of the ancestor Mugmedion father of Niall 9.
The flux of the belly.
However I did not come to die for Ireland.

She said she could not take responsiblity for the BP if something happened to me???
Good British logic from Ontario.

I think I must complain of this as discrimination and abuse of the elderly by the health Clinic on Londsadale.

Know there is a place on Bow St and I am off to the library at 10.00 so maybe they will do it.
But I doubt it as is Saturday.

There is a place in
Smithfield called Rapid Care or something.
The nurses association across the street from the shelter recommended but cant find it.

Apparenlty Smithfiled is a big neighborhood going all the way down to the Quay and holding the 4 Courst Bld witin its campus and a brewry Jamesons I think.
There is a a park there and a market.
A place of refugee.

It is now 7.50 and I want to shower if can do so.
I guess with out permisssion
I better ask I dont want to get thrown out for taking a bath before breakfast.

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009

ireland 2009 pg 67

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Ireland 2009 pg 67

If you have to pee in Irland your best bet is the Pub.
They dont like you to come in just to use the restroom ,toilets as they are noww discribed here.
But if you sit at the bar or table ask for a glass which is half pint you are entitled to pee as much as you like.

The glass is a little better than the tea and the atmosphere of the Pub is much kinder than the food shops.

There are no benches or flowers put out in Ireland about its many famous river walks.
You are not welcome to sit for hours and stare at the passing skies as in Monreal Quebec.
There are no trash recepticals along the Quays nor are their fishermen .

The rivers here in the south are just as desolate as the river Liffy here in Dublin.

The Quay of Galway and the Park of Sligo all on famous rives gone to streams of blackwater passing by great hotels and walled walkways.

Not a place of refugee or rest or communication but a place to hurry by on your way to some unknown serious destiny at a fast walking pace.
The Irish are soldiers by descent.
His training the big march. the sloug.

He survived with nature from a non foraging land.

A land of great gusts of cold wind rising fromthe western sea and the north sea or the south sea.

The sea forever surrounding the nest and the people swope throu the land like the soaring sea bird, so few now .
Strong and direct flowing thew the air seeking food on the wing survival.

I need to find out when Denis will be here Monday so we can find each other.
He is coming by train probably Connoly station but I dont know the time.
We'll see if can find the bus he needs to come to the west side or I can go meet him there.

I need to go to Wellington in the morning.

Maybe would be best to simply have him come here give the sisters the 90 euros get a reciept and see if can get him later.

I dont know how long he will stay.

But want to get the phone back to him so not to have to mail it up there at he bucks will cost me.

I do need to try and work with the US embassy her to find out what kind of agreement between the governments with regard to SS benefits and Ireland is under EU regs as well.

10 volumens of law for the innocent to wade through.

There should be a provision for the US to be able to reimburse the Republic for benefits rendered to seniors health ,or seniors housing, etc when the US benefits are temporaty unavalabee tothe recipent. As in the case here.

I should not have to enter the US to activate that agreement as they are requesting.
Return to the US to activate an exising treaty or law is not really rational- nor is the oral recitation of the 1974 Privacy act to allow the US Embassy to aquire my birth date, my name ,my known income sourse and all other redundant stuff.
They know that already ia it is transferable on enteragency sharing information.

A big splash of flags and flag waving while the people starve to death before their eyes.

How Anglo!

Well I did not return to the US and am still here in Ireland and the
US can do nothing to make me return as I hold Irish citizenship as well.
They must wait.
They have no authority and this question arrises to me as to be forced out of Ireland by poverty and lack of funds just as the famine Irish were forced out of Ireland by the same conditions 700 years ago.
Does Ireland have that right.

Inherited fromthe British and Union.
I am saying not.

Ireland has an obligation to relieve the condisions of a senior without funds, without potatos, with out shelte,r regardless of status and because this subject myself is by law a citizen of Ireland.
I am testing that principal.

So far the Guardai is in touch with it and the sisters in a quarded way.
They fear for thier money and have twice offreed a to throw me out if I dont pay.

I think Denis has saved me again
This week end with his timely email of yesterday which I copied and sister with all her bristles raised was able to accpet to wait for the money till Monday and not put me out onthe street for the weekend.

The sisters have no incling of physical stress.

They do not know what mogion or tirdness or exposure intails.

They have no sense of the physical or its needs.
This have no sense of life or intmation of mans delicate state on earth.
They have no sense of the flower
in the wind.

However they do keep an injured duck here on the place and they do have heat in the rooms a first for shelter here in Eire as none of the 16.00 or 20 a nite places for the students have heat.

Heat is all important here in Ireland and it is unlawful to cut peat.
The government is protecting this natural resourse to run electric plants.
The capitalist hotels cannot afford heat but he Church has it. Rembrance has heat now and electricy.

Eletctric candles for 20 cents here and 20 pence in the UK.

They may or may not lite up if you put in the 20 cents not like the old fire candles which sparkled and gleamed and allowed you to believe God and the angels hear your prayer.

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 66

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Ireland 2009 pg 66

I was a bit successful yesterday slogging down to Fleet St and just across from the garden of Pierce as Rose of Citizens said
was the Osin hHuse which gave me I hope my PPS # which will qualify me to apply for Irish citizen benefits.

It took that lady on the desk some 2 hours to find out this application information on her computer and dialing several government workers to get the proceedure right.
Beanachta upon her and her parents who raised her right

I had to go back to sister to get a statement of shelter and than started out along the norht quay and the Irish say Ke Like Lock Ce.
Quay being english or french and I guess meaning a port dock; a dock.
However in irish Ce would be pronounced che like the fairly so I guess this would be correct if they say Ke.

there is no K or h in the old Irish alphabet.
Ce is how or what I believe. A question.
The old trying to figure out what is water or how it works I suppose.

The PPS people on the south side were efficient and exact and the process not divisive and full of leaks like the community networks of SS offices all out in the boondocks so poor people cannot get at them.

I equate this creating of hardship to English administators as in the US .
The old haughty we hate you nobility that says wait outside the gate till the dogs are fed and if there is a bone left this day keepers will throw it out to you.
Then you may go to the river heave out some polluted waters and make bone soup at your camp if you have enough flint to start a fire.
But the fire must be put out at midnight as the watch at the gate needs to be able to see the enemy coming.

However the Irish do emulate the English in their desire and beliefs of long duration.
I suppose inbreeding now about a half of them being of both races or having grown up and been raised on the english culture side due to the parents having to go there for work and they, these desendants may be geneologicaly Iirish but culturally English as I myself am genetically Irish but culturealy American.

I gave Osin my Irish passport but they asked also for birth certificate.
The irish alone are required to produce a birth certificate all else may use the passaport.

I gave her this US passport and than my American birth certificate Good old Corneilius.
allwer accepted and
I was told the PPS would be mailed to me at my current address Regina Coeli.

I next was able to pick my way back up Fleet Street having seen a 1 euro email per hour and went in there.

However this had a membership so erred there and had to give the girl 2 euros for the 1 hour time.

I didnt read the sign slowly ,a bad habit of Americans who are swamped wiIf they read most of it with any understanding would never get anything else done.

I than went to find Wellington Quay as have to go their between 10 and 12 morning to complete the supplimental and bus pass applications on the emergency gabit whichever.

I imagine these people will invoke the common travel area restiction of 2004 regarding this travel pass and the supplimental but they will probably agree to issue a one time grant for the sisters shelter and perhaps some food or tansportation allowance for this month.

If so the Irish government may have recovry reimbursment from the US government as my US Social Security is the primary main provision and would govern my status.

As to the habitual residence requirement which intake a series of living arrangments of continuity of residence, nature of residence, center of interest ,and intent to live in the Republic,
it is a judgement call made by a group of deciding officers appointed by the Minister of Social and Family Affairs-which when broken down is a political appointment and will reflect the views of the government in power as well as the beliefs of the Minister and themselves.

As such it is not entirely non discriminatory or set in statute law made by the Oirestat legislation at the Dail.

I suppose there is a legislation behnid it and that would primarily be avaiable thru the Dial services.
A lot of legal woerk to determine the condition of any person applying for any of these resourses.

You need to hire a solicitor to appy.

However I wuold believe the 2004 regs are not in compliance with the Irish Constitution as to equality of treatment and could be adequately contended on that basis.

tTe use of the common travel area as by Ireland, UK, Channel Island and the Islse of Man discrimnates entirely against citizens of Ireland outside that area such as Spain ,Rome, Germany, US ,china, Australia ,Canada ,Austria, Gabralta and on and on.
Kenya
All areas wheer there have been high immigration from Erie over the last 5 centuries due to the islands inablity to cope with poverty within its frame work for whatever hstorical reasons.

All these citizens or ethinc decent groups are excluded from any benefit while the common travel area residents are entitled to this.

Anyone being in the UK, his lordship, the British army, the English poor. the English old.Her Majesty the Queen. are entitled to hold a smart pass and PPS number ,a pension ,or other entitlement from the Social and Family regardless of their loyalty or intent and hence the Union Jack still holds sway over the Tri Color.

The big island population being 3 times that of tiny Ireland and the invasion goes on.

While the great eimigrant population who were forced out of Ireland in the 1800 by British rule and British greed many of them dead on the docks and quays of Canada, NY and Philadelphia, Boston,and Savannah is excluded- not now by the British but by there own ethinic Irish government?

However, in my case, I hold a passsport because my mother was born in Ireland and as a dirct decendant of Irish parents and Irish grandparents I am not a tourist as the population would like to entertain .
One of those irish americans to be bilked of whatever resourses available to help for the old sod.

The old sod is richer by far than the americans just now and the new poverty of Ireland is in its recent acquisition of EU seekers of assylm and workers from as far away as India.

Yes the old commonwealth of India. the Raj!
Most of the small shops are now run by these porlific Indians.
None of whom speak English well enough to comunicate wheer they are or where you are but they do not cheat you at the register as did the old jews and italians in America.

They know better and the Irish government would not allow them status and a job if they didnt return the correct change for the Euro or over charge for products in the Spars and News stands of the towns.

The Polski on the other hand have put up big signs announcing a Polish place.
tTe Italians are runing first class restarauts and the old Irish pubs are along the steets
Ryans Bar, O Kiefs, O Neills, O Connor.
The kings have gone to the feis.

Big buildings now abound around the rubble of miles and miles of shops.
The old English massive home structures and alongside the more flighty and springy glass structures of the Nua Ireland.
Amongst these the stylized Georgean 2 or 3 story structures with fence and gated.

They live in fear of outsiders.
those who dont belong.
The nest again.
Pay your way and share the nest where your life is secure and you belong.

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 65

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Ireland 2009 pg 65

The morning with this post and look for an internet and the afteroon on Manor St where I got of an email to Denis in Armagh and Tim in NC to see if either of them could come up with the 90 euros.

Denis being the best bet and the quickest as I can simply write him his check from here and he can cash it at will - no problem as he goes to the US every now and again anyway.

Tim will have to send US money via western union or some such and I will have to take the loss on the convert to euros so 90 euros will be paying not 30 euros but $40.00 per week.

I cannot control how fast either of these 2 will respond.

They both have their own lives to live and Denis did get burned with Daft and my not trusting the good sister of the Leigon any better sending the money.
Plus these people cant seem to be online-

The Church has a block about the interent-It exposes their people to to much stray and exotic information distracting the mind from the true work of God and the Devil.
However he does have the phone and perhaps he will call.

The diffuculty will be to get through this weekend Friday Saturday and Sunday.
If they let me stay that long and nothing happens monitarily by than will have to pick up the bags and go on out.

There is a Haven House just next door here all under gates and things apparently that is some kind of shelter as well.

The ladies here are being helpful as to where to go to get the BP taken.
Back up to Manor St. Some dr office up there but they didnt know the name of it.
The nurses said to go the Smithfiled and I needed to find the Family services department around there so can go in and appy for the suppliment as well as see about getting the right for the bus pass.
Apparently the senior smart pass FTNI.
One is the Eireann and rail pass for the 2 parts of the isle not just the Republic one.

Well it is 8 now so need to walk out and get acoffee and some food.
the dining area opens at 8 AM.

The soc services opens at 9.30, wherever it is at and today no 1 euro lunch- will eat up my cold pancakes and a tart and some tea.

IF sister plans to kick me out can guarantee it will be on Sat or Sunday when every help agency is closed.

There is a cruelity in the Church.
Always has been as they consider the homo species sinners,
Basically ,and are constantly praying for our redemption by god and his son and his mother of this apparently geneic defect.

I think of it is not sin but skitzophrenia myself.
Man in his nuthouse Mother Earth.

Anyway I think the few words of John Kennedy best fits the Church and the human condition

Gods work on Earth must truely be our own.

May 8 09

two days without pay on credit 4 days my be to much for the Church.

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 64

2009-08-03T09:39:00.000-07:00

Well I am established here with the Sisters of the Legion of Mary if can get them their $

for my shelter here.

Maybe Denis will lodge it down to them and I can write him a check for it.

I got the email out and got the letter mailed and heard from this newpaper and the old

friend the Ombudsman Kiely.
Good for him. He is still there.

I went the wrong way so didnt find the Smithfield Health Clinic to see if they could take my

BP but I am formulating this smart pass and supplimental relief plan in my head.

I should have some ability either thru agreements with US and Irish government or as a

senior with some relief arangements between the two of them.

The international students get all kinds of discounts on tickets, travel, hostel and

everything else but the seniors get nothing and this after Many have given the lives of

their sons and daughers for the success and freedom of Ireland or they themselves have

volunteered their time and finance to the success of this tiny Island in the midst of waves

of greater nations.

However it is the Church and the Guardai, old forces of Erie,who came thru in the pinch not

the new or the modern or the selfish or the nueve rich executive workers.

There is no internet on this street or this area but many business are closed and shuttered.

New buildings are unoccupied in deserted shopping malls.

With even the anticipation of heaven on earth
Java Center charging 11 cents a minute unlimited access thats 1 euro for 5 minutes.

INSANE!
No one uses them.

A food court sports Kentucky Fried Chicken and a few other foods.
Nice secluded place on the mesanine.
The toilets are free.
Better than Irish Life on the east side.

The west side of O Connell St is all upper middle class shops and department stores.
J C Pennys. Some local ones. Lots of shoppers.

A mall is Henry St. No cars and the Ilac Center has a nice public library in its midst.

I was tired today from lugging the cases up Parnell St and King St but I made it.

The sisters let me in a bit early and gave me coffee.
They serve a noon meal here for 1 euro.
Liver and onionswith bacon, a big plate of mashed potatoes and gravy and a vegatabee.Better

than a sausage.
I could not get down the potatos at noon.

The evening meal is lite. A supper at 7. Tea time about 4.30 to 5 Pm
Better to sleep on an empty stomach.
I spent 1 euro for the email and 1 euro for the lunch and 1 euro for some tomatos so that

will leave me much.
I need to get a job.
But maybe the exchange will go down a bit.

Community Inforamtion Center does a good job here and all over Ireland regarding help for

citizens- I think it is run by Sein Finn party- did allow me to talk to Delta re changing

the ticket.
But no dice.
They want 250.00 fee to do it.
More than I paid for the fare home.
Thats BS for sure.
Greedy people run this world.

At least I did not trot out of Ireland by to Ballbrigan as the US wants and it amuses me as

there is nothing they can do about it as I am an Irish citizen without benefits.

The habitual Residence Condition preclude Americans or
canadiens or other world people restricts their recieving any entitlements.

However the common travel area designation as Ireland, GB ,Channel Island and the Ilse of

Man allow these people to have those benefits on demand.

So an Englishman born breed and loyal to the crown can claim entitlement benefits from Eire

where a child born in Irleland of Irish parents taken to the US or China or France or

Germany et al, cannot qualify for these same benefits, not being a habitual resident for 2

years.
A regulation or law of Dept of Social and Family Affairs SW 108 passed in 2004.

This is probably conflicitng legislation on these rights for both the Irish Constitution and

the EU workers programs.

For me to qualify for benefits or a smrat pass I would have to live in Irleand or the

ajoining lands for 2 years and for that would have to give up section 8 as well as

association with the immediate family.

What the status would be as a refugee from America remains unseen.

However America seems to have made peace with me since the old days of the Troubles leaving

me with my life, my social security, my section 8, and my distroyed home, and a semblance of

freedom from police harrasment.

The Irish are afraid I will stay I guess.

They have a block against those who left wanting them to return rich and sucessfull

monitarily .
Stupid as to politics and history and docile and subservenet as to the Church.

The Irish soul is torn between a fast nightlife, a modest feamale with italians shoes- if at

all- wearing beach styles in the middle of winter and the modern man with her.
With her pram worth more than the child within.
That blue eyed, small, ruddy and blond ,were the mother is plump , hardy and dark haired.
The famous irish eye hardly noticed as she passes by.
Gone the spirited colleen.

The ladys here are mostly about 40 and some perhaps inthe mental health programs as well as

at times drinking.

Theses are now matrons and forgotten by all but the sisters of Mary.

The rosary is still said here before supper at 6 and the rooms are locked in the afternoon

to keep the ladies up and out here in the TV room.

There is a separate shelter at the legoin for mothers with children and up on the hill a

Haven there with great gates around it all locked.
This is a gated community up here around Stony Batter Rd.
It is not far from Phoenix Park and the National Museums Collins Barrachs.

Than there is the Wolf Tone Quay and further south the famous 4 Courts Bldg.
I was down that way today looking for the NetCafe but did not find one.

One of the ladies her told where to go so got the emails out to Denis and Tim to see if they

can get the $ here so I can stay. I hope so.

Denis kids are all coming home this week so he doesnt need to be bothered with me.

I will be OK if they send the cash in.

Sister is very conserned about her money for 2 days.
I tried to explain to her that I had spent the entire Thurdays trying to get her her money.
She thinks my letter to the US Consolate indicated that they did not have to pay me for 90

days.
I should not have given them a copy.

I doubt very much if the US will loan me 30 euros.

But no sence in not asking the dear sweet things.

Apparently they have no authority to ask an airline to change a ticket anyway- it is a

private corporation- and Delta is charging $250 to reissue and update a ticket which the

Embassy would pay this and send me a bill for later.
Plus the new ticket would be at airlines rates which would be no longer cheap flight rates

for the applying citizen but these new fares close to or more than $500.00 and in Europe

this would be euros purchase and therefore the exchange loss for that day.
To bad.
So dont think that will work at all as a resource.

However since Samaratain activated them and I did too from Sligo over Daft client Glakins

refusal to return the poor mans money.
That they did get done miraculously.

I am looking over the minimal materials available here on the street and find that these

are Social Welfare and Socal Security Agreements between the several countries .
The EU , US, Ireland and so forth.
These provide allowances to be paid
to workers, pensions, travel pass, etc for persons from these several countries.
The EU regulations governing EU under GB and Ireland and the US by federal OASDI programs.

These agreements betwen the countries regarding benefit awards and other needs are probalby

outlined and should be readily available at the Embassy or at the Irish Dept of Foreign

Affairs as to the law and its provisions.

As to the Social and Family Services, apparently they have divisional offices about the

city.

As I originally applied for emergency housing as a homeless person at the north east office

on Cathal Bruga St and was referred to this upper Gardner St Health Center which could not

fidn after 3 times walking,
The contact was not activated and the Gardai got me this emergency shelter needed here on

credit as of Wendsday this .

I am thinking I would do well today, Friday to go over to the Social and Family on this

side of town and see if can go ahead and apply for Supplimental Welfare Allowance
from the local Health Center office.

Yesterday, Thursday went out and got the damn Embassy letter mailed for 55 cents and than

spent a lot of energy looking for the ubiquious netcafe all up and down Capel sT to the

river.

Went to 4 courts and back up again via Greek St and Beresefod St to King St and the

community info center (Macro)where with a little BS was able to get the rather staunch

middle aged man on the desk to call up the damn airline.

He did believe hartily in the habitual Residence provision and got one booklet 108 which

explains it
as being a 2004 provision by Family Servies to create a 2 year residency requirement for

'outsiders' ; those being any citizen or applicant not living inthe common travel area

Irlend, Great Britain, Channel Island or the Ilse of Man.

These people are included in the initial non residency plan.
Citizens who hold citenship by birth or otherwise are retricted to survival in this area on

their own for 2 years before they acquire any entitlements.

This is rather unfair legislation I would think and contravenes the equality clause of the

Irish Constituion at least.

As to GB and the Ilse I doubt if they have a Contitution to prestate this rigth.
Those territories being probably autonomous regions subjected to the Crown protected

military and having their own independent local government.
However we are clearly only with Erin and I am not about to pitch my tent in the channel for

2 years.

However sister was so conserned over her 30 euros last night she wanted me to fully

understand I had to pay.

Time or transportaion or knowing where you are going is not registered in her prayful mind.

These logistics simpy do not exist in her world.

judi donnelly
copyright
16 june 2009

Ireland 2009 pg 63

2009-08-03T09:38:00.001-07:00

Ireland 2009 pg 63

Of course the element of how the latest bout with lack of adequate money came about relateds to the exchange rate of 37 or 35 cents loss per dollar as agains the euro and the havoc of throwing me back into the hostel programs in my trip as opposed to the weekly room rate by Daft.ie service and Glackin.

These 2 factors cost me around 200 or 250 loss on the dollar.
Leavign not 600.00 to spend but 350.00 in euros.
Not enogh to live on here.

The governement solution both the massive US structure and the tiny copy republic without a separate soul except for the sheep is to simply send the problem elsewhere or ignore its existance entirely.`
Blaming the victim rather than the desease that being Currency paper and the unequal distribution of of it.

Without the exchange devaluation,( no one want to buy US dollars),
I would have 500 euros not 300.
And without the Daft prejudice against 'feriegners'
renting room threw service and throwing them out in the street after taking their money, there would be an additional 100 euros and time. some 2 weeks of visitng in 12 days.

The problem is caused by outsiders.
The 3rd force .
And the problem is exaserbated by 3rd partys trying to resolve the problem created by there fellow vultures .

And is it then, any wonder the diagnosis of the general skitzophrenia of the human being must be seriously considered to be what is the matter with the World.

The gods diagnosed this mental defect centuries ago and proposed to elimate Homo Sapien and thereby obtain peace and order on Earth.

However the Greek Heros did happily argue with Hera and Zeus and prevailed to allow the crazy homo to live expecting some good would come of him for Mother Earth,
Someday ,some way, in a moment of Lucitdity .

We joyfully await that moment.

judi donnelly
copyright
16 june 2009