Ireland Mosaic: A Photo Journey

By M. D. Healy

With over 70 beautiful color photos, this Ireland travel photo book captures and preserves the beauty of ancient, medieval, historical, and modern Ireland in a "coffee table" style tablet eBook that is easy to carry and to view anytime and anywhere. The reader may look at this book as a coast to coast virtual tour of Ireland, time traveling from 3,000 BC ancient sites, to early history abbeys, to medieval castles, and to scenic places off the beaten path in Ireland. It is my wish that, upon viewing the variety of photos in this travel photo book, you will be inspired to travel to Ireland yourself, to see these Irish "gems" in person.
Inside you will find a collection of my favorite photos, over 70 in total, taken in recent years on numerous trips to Ireland. Counties Cork, Galway, Kerry, Mayo, Meath, and Sligo are well represented in this Ireland Mosaic Photo Journey feast. The book ends with a few short Irish traditions and Celtic history stories told with some humorous twists.
I hope that you enjoy viewing these special photos of Ireland. May you be blessed with an opportunity to visit Ireland to view these wonderful, mystical, magical places and apply McCarthy’s 8th Rule of Travel: "Never pass a pub that has your name on it".

• Language: English
• Publisher: M. D. Healy
• Release date: Aug 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476185132

M. D. Healy

A Trinity College Dublin, Ireland graduate, Mike developed his interest and passion for photographing Ireland’s many ancient sites, castles, landscapes, and pubs through his annual trips to Ireland to visit family and friends there. Mike believes in capturing the raw beauty of Ireland in his photos, without much post processing touch-up. He named his photography business Ballycastle Photography in honor of his Irish grandparents who were both born near Ballycastle, a quaint Irish village on the wild, scenic Atlantic coast of north County Mayo, Ireland. His Irish grandparents immigrated to America in 1912 and settled in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to his love of Ireland travel photography, Mike helps people around the world find their Irish ancestors’ origins and birthplaces with his Irish Ancestry Research service business, Ballycastle Irish Genealogy.

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Ireland Mosaic

A Photo Journey

M. D. Healy

Copyright 2012 by M. D. Healy. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author.

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Cover photos by M. D. Healy

All photos by M. D. Healy

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To lift the lid of the peat

And find this pupil dreaming

Of neolithic wheat!

When he stripped off blanket bog

The soft-piled centuries

Fell open like a glib;

There were the first plough-marks,

The stone-age fields, the tomb

Corbelled, turfed and chambered,

Floored with dry turf-coomb.

A landscape fossilized,

Its stone wall patternings

Repeated before our eyes

In the stone walls of Mayo.

- From Seamus Heaney's Belderg

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Table of Contents

PREFACE

ANCIENT IRELAND

IRISH CASTLES

SCENIC IRELAND

FLOWERS AND GARDENS

IRISH SHOPS

IRISH TRADITION - SAMHAIN

IRISH HISTORY - SAINT BRIDGET

RIVERDANCE IN CONNAUGHT

PHOTOGRAPHER'S BIO

THANK YOU

PREFACE

This photo book captures and preserves the beauty of ancient, medieval, historical, and modern Ireland in a coffee table style tablet eBook that is easy to carry and to view anytime and anywhere. The reader may look at this book as a coast to coast virtual tour of Ireland, time traveling from 3,000 BC ancient sites, to early history

Reviews for Ireland Mosaic

[beautyqueenmil · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I would like to thank the author for the cybertour. The photography is marvelous. Made me list Ireland in my bucket list. THank you