Mise Eire

08/06/2016

Next point of my trip was Skelling Michael Islands. Unfortunately time when boats go there is absolutely unacceptable when trying to photograph landscapes. Horrible, harsh light was destructive to any frame of island I was trying to capture. In this situation I had to focus on inhabitants. Puffins are very adorable creatures and it was first time I saw them live. It's interesting that duck size bird with short wings and tail fly so fast.

29/03/2016

Mystical Skelligs.

Wishing everybody a happy easter 2016...

10/03/2016

FAMINE
They’re with us still you know
Those ghosts of famine times
Not far beneath the skin
Their withered memory chimes
Like church bells and empty graves
Flagstones without a name
Children unwanted by their own
We carried their grief with shame
Was it not our soul
We sold so cheap
When we buried you
On history’s heap
Of dates and facts to hide away
Among the debris to decay
Arise! Arise! And take your place
At Eireann’s table without disgrace
Let your children now embrace
Your pain, your suffering, your starving face

19/02/2016

The joys of spring. The joys of the innocent. Hope springs eternal. Cherish the young and teach them well. Love, tolerance, compassion, courage. These are the labels we should dress them in. these are the brands we should etch upon their hearts.......and our own! All this from a simple photo. Yeah, well, I'm a simple kinda guy.

Coming up next: WEEKEND!
Don't you just love that

17/02/2016

Especially for all those who have visited us and did not get to see views from Geokaun in this kind of weather.

“Panorama looking East from Geokaun summit today …”

16/02/2016

Sight from Valentia Island.

30/01/2016

Happy to share this and pay due respect to all concerned......a small donation wouldn't go astray either!

07/12/2015

misty

19/11/2015

Caol (Chapeltown) on Valentia Island literal translation is 'slim, narrow, thin'. I wonder!!!

In Irish mythology, a thin place was a divider between the physical, tangible world and the otherworld of dreams, the afterlife, and other unseen but very…

05/10/2015

05/10/2015

29/08/2015

These vintage photographs depict life in rural Ireland during the late 19th and early 20th century, and include some wonderful early colour photographs. Enjoy!

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Check out Turtle's Irish history archive at https://turtlebunbury.com/history-archive/

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Turtle Bunbury's books include:

* The 'Vanishing Ireland' series
* Ireland's Forgotten Past
* The Irish Diaspora
* 1847 - A Chronicle of Genius & Generosity
* Easter Dawn - The 1916 Rising
* The Glorious Madness - Tales of the Irish & the Great War
* Sporting Legends of Ireland
* The Irish Pub