“If we can manage to do that then I’m confident we can achieve what we’ve set out to do.” he added. “But now we need to find a way of securing funding. “Our progress so far has been amazing considering the fact that we are have very limited resources and we are all volunteers. The survivors were later hanged and buried in a mass grave known as Tuama na Spaineach, which translates from Gaelic into The Spaniards’ Tomb. Only four of the 490 men on board survived. On its way home, it was broken upon a reef close to Mutton Island and sank. is left wondering what misfortune could befall her, Peig Sayers-style, next. The San Marcos, a Portuguese galleon and a crown jewel in the Armada fleet, was damaged in battle. In Forgiveness, a graves autumnal flora creates an abundance in death. The latest survey, which was financially backed by the Heritage Council, aimed at identifying possible burial sites of those lost on the San Marcos and San Esteban in September 1588. “We don’t know how long this would take as if we found human remains then it is a matter which falls to the gardaí as they would need to be sure that any bodies were not part of something more sinister.” The group plans to carry out further investigations at the site. “If we could prove that this is a grave connected to the Spanish Armada then it would finally prove some evidence as to where Spanish Point gets its name.” “It would be the first ever Spanish Armada grave so as both a historian and a local of the area this is incredibly exciting for me. Said Treacy: “I come from Spanish Point myself and as a child we would’ve always been told not to walk across the area because it was known as a burial site. “If what we believe is correct then we are talking about quite a significant find as it would’ve taken 20 people digging for a day to make just one of these structures,” he added. The team found evidence of large underground caverns believed to be the type used to bury bodies during the time of the Armada. “If this turns out to be true then it proves that there is a certain substance to the old legends from the local area … and this leaves us with a lot of hope for finding the shipwreck itself.”
“Obviously we haven’t got conclusive proof yet but we will hopefully carry out a test excavation next year. “It is definitely a big step for the project,” said Dr John Treacy, the director of the San Marcos Project and a history lecturer at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick. 2015 Historians find possible mass grave of Spanish Armada victims in Co. Her Reflections are a collection of her fireside stories.".dj.News 21. As soon as he had turned the last sod of his fathers grave he made ready to go. He also mentions the reason why he never returned to the Blasket: 1 This is a continuation of a previous article of mine, 'Kenneth Jackson and Peig Sayers: The Creation of Scalta n mBlascaod' (henceforth The Creation), which appeared in Baloideas 78 (2010), 99. Scattering and Sorrow1936 Peig Sayers Coming from Peig Sayerss famous. Hotspots will allow you to explore the scene from four different. states that he feels that he ought to go back to Ireland 'to see Peig's grave'. 2 Her home in Dn Chaoin is visible behind the old stones of Tigh Mhire in the virtual-reality environment (left). She was, as Robin Flower wrote in The Western Island, 'a natural orator, with so keen a sense of the turn of phrase and the lifting rhythm appropriate to Irish that her words could be written down as they leave her lips, and they would have the effect of literature with no savour of the artificiality of composition'. Peig Sayers, who wrote of her life on nearby Great Blasket Island where she moved after her marriage, was once required reading for every student in Ireland. Students and scholars of the Irish languare came from far and wide to visit her. Dingle Peninsula - Dunquin - County Kerry - Great Blasket Island - Toms OCrohan - Mire N Chinnide - Maidhc Dainn S - 1873 in Ireland - An Bal.
She was born in the parish of Dunquin in Kerry and married into a neighbouring island, the Great Blasket, where she spent most of her life. *"Peig Sayers was 'the Queen of Gaelic story-tellers'. on his gravestone in his new home overlooking the sea in Mount Vaea.
The dust jacket is slightly soiled with a bit of edgewear, otherwise in very good condition. Mire was a close relative of the famous Peig Sayers, the Blasket Island story.
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There is an old newspaper article about the author attached to last free endpage, with resulting age-toning to opposite page. The binding is tight with hinges intact. A very good, clean condition, with a previous owners name inked to inside front board (underneath dust jacket flap), otherwise free of previous owners marks or signatures.
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