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Ireland Photo Of The Day Nr 6 – Crows
Posted on December 26, 2013
Irish crows! Outside my house, Christmas morning.
Black & Tan Raid at Caherguillamore, HX, South West Ireland
Posted on December 26, 2013
On 27th December 1920, the British Black & Tan military forces http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_Tans were tipped off that an IRA fund raising dance was taking place at Caherguillamore House in the county of Limerick, South West Ireland. The Tans carried out a raid on the event and in the process killed 5 IRA members. Each year on the Sunday before Christmas, an anniversary Mass and after-Mass commemoration ceremony takes place at Grange Church, where the 5 victims are buried in a single plot. Many relatives of the deceased still live locally.
This year was no different.
Ireland Photos Of The Day 5 – Christmas Eve Midnight Mass
Posted on December 25, 2013
Patrickswell Church, HX, Limerick. 24 December 2013.
Prayers for Syria, Gaza & Sudan. And the story from the Great War (WW1) of the football match of 1915 on the Western Front between the Germans & the Allied forces. Cigarettes & wine shared, family photos shown, hymns sung. 3-2 football victory to the Germans, allegedly. And hours later the slaughter started again.
Ireland Photo Of The Day Nr 4 – Reardons Bar, HX
Posted on December 24, 2013
Sunday night at HX. Barman Podge.
Ireland Photo Of The Day Nr 3 – Christmas Carol Service
Posted on December 23, 2013
Grange Church: Christmas carol service. 22 December 2013.
Ireland Photo Of The Day Nr 1 – Winter Solstice
Posted on December 21, 2013
Winter solstice at Grange Stone Circle, HX, Ireland. 21st December 2013.
Tea Party
Posted on December 16, 2013
On the anniversary of the one in Boston, a few shots from a tea plantation in Sri Lanka, from a few months back.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Community
Posted on December 13, 2013
The HX community celebrate sunrise mass on the shores of local Lough Gur lake on 1st January 2010. After mass, the kids walk on the frozen lake while the adults tuck into the hot breakfast.
Flying the flag!
Posted on December 13, 2013
Morning all
MB back in Dubai on visa run and little time on his hands for great compositions.
MB recently informed you all that Dubai was recently awarded the World Expo in 2020, and there was much back slapping and high fives on account. Huge pride from the residents all over Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and the national flag now hangs from anything that an Emirati can get some rope around. So is partially the pic theme of today’s effort. To give you all some flavour.
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ME Culture (9)
Posted on December 12, 2013
The Temple Of Hercules at Amman, Jordan is illuminated at night by powerful floodlights at ground level, and being the highest point in the city is visible for miles around.
The local kids, like kids the world over, couldn’t care less about historic temples, but use the lights to play night time football underneath the stone columns.
ME Culture (7)
Posted on December 9, 2013
Wedding or Party halls are common in Saudi Arabia. Rent out the hall for your function, and organise your own catering. Some are quite grand.
ME Culture (6)
Posted on December 8, 2013
Ajman Fisk Market, UAE.
The majority of the fishermen come from India, from the state of Gujarat. The market takes place every Saturday afternoon and is a huge spectacle.
The fish are sorted on the boat decks upon arrival at the port into baskets of similar type fish and then laid out on the yard for the traders to inspect & purchase by public auction. The public buyers have a choice to get the fish cleaned and gutted by a team of men in green plastic coats in the market building, and also to have the fish cooked in a small fish cooking shop that makes its own spice mixes to suit the fish taste.
ME Culture (5)
Posted on December 7, 2013
The walls of the 12th century Crusader castle at Byblos, Lebanon. Byblos is considered the oldest continuously inhabited city/town in the world (at approx 8,000 years) and was founded by the Phoenicians. The castle walls are decorated with the columns of a former Greek (or Roman?) Temple which was demolished to make way for the castle. The stone columns of the temple were cut using a rope, water and sand. As shown in the second pic.
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