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  • Views of the harbor in Castlebay as night falls on the Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
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  • Waves crash in on the Butt of Lewis (the north end) on the Isle of Lewis.  This is the farthest north tip of the Outer Hebrides.
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  • A Welsh men's choir, fresh from their concert at a local church, stopped into the Tanronnen Inn in Beddgelert for pint and a few more songs before heading home.
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  • Evening falls on Gleann Cholm Cille in County Donegal, northwest Ireland.  It is typical of Celtic settlement with houses scattered across the countryside in a loose gathering.
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  • Overlooking the bay at low tide in the area of Timsgarry, Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The inn is Baile na Cille.
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  • Waves crash in on the Butt of Lewis (the north end) on the Isle of Lewis.  This is the farthest north tip of the Outer Hebrides.
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  • Wild horse are gathered from the hills and brought to a coral at the Rapa Das Bestas in Vimianzo, Galicia.  On the second day the horses are gathered in the coral where teams of five men wrestle them to the ground so they can have their manes and tails trimmed.  This ancient tradition as passed from economic necessity to popular cultural tradition, the asociacion now making the event and increasingly popular attraction.  The wild west of the Celtic World.  The big feast features beef, pork, and (wouldn't you know) horse meat, the most popular.
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  • National Championship of traditional music in Gourin, Brittany.
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  • Scenes at the Intercelitque Festival where the Magic Night performance brings performers from all the nations into the stadium for a full blown show of Celtic music and dance.  Celtic gets the rock star treatment.  Response from the Celtic audience was overwhelming.
    MM7189 8-6-04 15148.jpg
  • Mazey Day celebrations in the streets of Penzance as the Golowan band draws Penglaze out onto the street where it creats havoc in the serpent dance. Children from the community schools take part in the parade.  Moch Mayor Miss Cornish Pasty marches in the parade.
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  • Evening falls over Harlech Castle while the staff of the Castle Restaurant sets the tables.
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  • The Harlech Medieval Society demonstrating battle techniques and costume in Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, Wales.
    Wales 20050810 1471.jpg
  • Nant Gwynant is a beautiful valley above the town of Beddgelert in North Wales.
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  • Overlooking the bay at low tide in the area of Timsgarry, Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.  One of the most scenic areas I have ever seen in Scotland.
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  • The Bar de Fredi in Espasante, Galicia is a popular spot for Celtic music.  The tavern opens at 11:00 pm and things get going about 1:00 am when the pipers arrive.  Music goes on till 5:00 am, finishing up with traditional hill singing, men and women echoing choruses back and forth.  A wild night.
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  • March of the Lonach Highlanders and the Lonach Gathering are one of the great Highland games in Scotand.  Morning includes the march as the clans go from country house to country house where their hosts toast them with a wee dram of hospitality, otherwise known as whisky.
    MM7189 8-28-04 20796.jpg
  • Views of the harbor in Castlebay as night falls on the Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
    MM7189 20050519 26207.jpg
  • The Archbishop and monks at the Celtic Orthodox Monastery of Sainte-Dolay in Brittany.   Morning sunlight casts warm light though the incense of mass.
    MM7189 20050712 36774.jpg
  • Gig racing on the south coast of Cornwall.
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  • View of Conwy, famous for the castle overlooking the River Conwy.<br />
<br />
Conwy is the classic walled town. Its circuit of walls, over three quarters of a mile long and guarded by no less than 22 towers, is one of the finest in the World.
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  • Nant Gwynant is a beautiful valley above the town of Beddgelert in North Wales.
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  • On Llanddwyn Island, the lovely little island and lighthouse that sits of the southwest coast of Anglesey in North Wales.  Reached at low tide across a spit of sand the island is a favorite of locals who come for the romantic tranquility.  Also a favorite mooring of sailboats.  Nearby town is Newborough.
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  • On Llanddwyn Island, the lovely little island and lighthouse that sits of the southwest coast of Anglesey in North Wales.  Reached at low tide across a spit of sand the island is a favorite of locals who come for the romantic tranquility.  Also a favorite mooring of sailboats.  Nearby town is Newborough.
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  • Scenes at Whitesand Beach near St. Davids in Wales.
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  • Anglesey County Show draws the pride of Welsh agriculture to the island.
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  • The Cliffs of Moher rise dramatically out of the sea on the west coast of Ireland.  Visited by over one million people a year.
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  • On the Isle of Iona off the coast of Isle of Mull, the home of Christianity in Scotland.
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  • Familia de Menhires by Manolo Paz (1994) is a postmodern set of standing stones in a prominent seaside park in A Coruna.
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  • The Archbishop and monks at the Celtic Orthodox Monastery of Sainte-Dolay in Brittany.   Morning sunlight casts warm light though the incense of mass.
    Celtic Orthodox Monastery, Brittany.jpg
  • The Giants Causeway features octagonal volcanic shafts that reach out into the Celtic Sea near Bushmills on the Antrim Coast of Northern Ireland.  Long a central site of Celtic Legends the prime tale is that the giant built the causeway to unite him with his lover in Scotland, who lived near Staffa, the island off Iona that has similar dramatic blocks.
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  • Mural in Belfast, Northern Ireland
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  • Farmer in Ireland. Lives near Gleann Cholm Cille, on the northwest coast of Ireland, an ancient sacred valley in the Irish Gaeltacht.
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  • Gleann Cholm Cille, on the northwest coast of Ireland, an ancient sacred valley in the Irish Gaeltacht.
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  • Sunday morning church services in Gaelic at the Free Church of Scotland in Barvas on the Isle of Lewis.  Minister is Calum Ian MacLeod.  Women wear hats, there is no piano or organ, hymns sung by "precentation" which is akin to lining out style, the elder singing a line and being followed by the congregation.  Very eerie, beautiful music.
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  • Sunday morning church services in Gaelic at the Free Church of Scotland in Barvas on the Isle of Lewis.  Minister is Calum Ian MacLeod.  Women wear hats, there is no piano or organ, hymns sung by "precentation"  which is akin to lining out style, the elder singing a line and being followed by the congregation.
    MM7189 20050522 27112 - Version 2.jpg
  • Pennan, seaside village on the Morar Firth.  This tiny village has only one row of houses, and represents the native Scots being pushed out to the edges of the Celtic world.  It was also the setting of the cult movie favorite, Local Hero.
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  • Glenfinnan Highland Games and Gathering at Glenfinnan.  Part of the ceremonies are the raising of the standard to commemorate Bonnie Prince Charlie rallying the Highlanders to his cause at Glenfinnan (which led to their eventual downfall.)  Some of the White Cockade Society participated in old Highland costume.
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  • Golowan Parade with the Golowan Band greets Penglaze as the horse skulled figure makes an appearance.  This ancient tradition has been revived in Penzance.  The horse comes out to bring havoc and mischief into the world before being pushed back into the darkness by the music.
    MM7189 6-26-04 2815.jpg
  • Golowan Parade with the Golowan Band greets Penglaze as the horse skulled figure makes an appearance.  This ancient tradition has been revived in Penzance.  The horse comes out to bring havoc and mischief into the world before being pushed back into the darkness by the music.
    MM7189 6-26-04 2796.jpg
  • Pennan, seaside village on the Morar Firth of Scotland.  This tiny village has only one row of houses.  It was also the setting of the cult movie favorite, Local Hero.
    MM7189 8-27-04 20033.jpg
  • Bannatyne MacLeod working sheep on his croft on the Isle of Harris, Scotland Island crofters survived by being adaptable and dogged, doing everything from farming to fishing to herding sheep to make a living. Generations of his MacLeods have worked these rocky hills before  Bannatyne MacLeod took over the farm.
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  • Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Event has been going on for years and has grown ever larger, now boasting over 300 performers and 10,000 to 15,000 spectators.
    MM7189 20050430 24557.jpg
  • March of the Lonach Highlanders and the Lonach Gathering are one of the great Highland games in Scotand.  Morning includes the march as the clans go from country house to country house where their hosts toast them with a wee dram of hospitality, otherwise known as whisky.
    MM7189 8-28-04 20883.jpg
  • March of the Lonach Highlanders and the Lonach Gathering are one of the great Highland games in Scotand.  Morning includes the march as the clans go from country house to country house where their hosts toast them with a wee dram of hospitality, otherwise known as whisky.
    MM7189 8-28-04 20883.jpg
  • The ancient Celtic village of Santa Tecla looks down on the modern city of A Garda in the far southwest tip of Galicia.  Uncovered during road building in the 1930's the wonderfully preserved village dates from some 2500 years ago.  Remarkably the thatched roofed houses here are almost exactly like the houses you see in use today in O Cebreiro or Piornedo.  One of the most stunning locations I saw in all of Galicia.
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  • The Bar de Fredi in Espasante, Galicia is a popular spot for Celtic music.  The tavern opens at 11:00 pm and things get going about 1:00 am when the pipers arrive.  Music goes on till 5:00 am, finishing up with traditional hill singing, men and women echoing choruses back and forth.  A wild night.
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  • Simple Fest Noz on a farm near Plouye.  Local folk had restored two old stone ovens and held the Fest Noz to celebrate the baking of bread in the old ovens.
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  • Scenes at the Intercelitque Festival, Lorient, Brittany where the Magic Night performance brings performers from all the nations into the stadium for a full blown show of Celtic music and dance.  Celtic gets the rock star treatment.  Response from the Celtic audience was overwhelming.
    MM7189 8-6-04 15187.jpg
  • Church in Brittany, France.
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  • A Breton dance group performs at the Cathedral in Quimper, Brittany.<br />
religious patrimony.
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  • Golowan Parade with the Golowan Band greets Penglaze as the horse skulled figure makes an appearance.  This ancient tradition has been revived in Penzance.  The horse comes out to bring havoc and mischief into the world before being pushed back into the darkness by the music.
    MM7189 6-26-04 2815.jpg
  • Evening around the harbor in Porthmadog, North Wales
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  • Towering high above the Dee Valley and the bustling town of Llangollen is Castell Dinas Bran, one of Britain's most spectacular sites. A rugged, foreboding pinnacle, the hillock was the ideal spot to erect a castle but the native Welsh princes of Powys occupied the hilltop for only a few decades.
    Wales 20050817 4080.jpg
  • On Llanddwyn Island, the lovely little island and lighthouse that sits of the southwest coast of Anglesey in North Wales.  Reached at low tide across a spit of sand the island is a favorite of locals who come for the romantic tranquility.  Also a favorite mooring of sailboats.  Nearby town is Newborough.
    Wales 20050808 0927.jpg
  • The Archbishop and monks at the Celtic Orthodox Monastery of Sainte-Dolay in Brittany.  The monks eat communally outside under and awning.  Morning sunlight casts warm light though the incense of mass.
    MM7189 20050712 36807.jpg
  • Madron Holy Well and Baptistry sits on the outskirts of Madron, north of Penzance. The faithful dip rags in the water and hang them on the trees around the spring. In side the old Celtic church is Karen Ehrenfeldt, a druid from San Jose, California.
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  • Sunrise at Stonehenge on the Summer Solstice.  20,000 revelers wait to greet the sunrise at Stonehenge.
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  • Sunrise at Stonehenge on the Summer Solstice.  20,000 revelers wait to greet the sunrise at Stonehenge.
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  • Sunrise at Stonehenge on the Summer Solstice.  20,000 revelers wait to greet the sunrise at Stonehenge.
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  • Sunset at Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain of Wiltshire in Southern England.
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  • Graveyard and church close by the sea on Inishmor.  In the graveyard is Teaghlach Einne, an early church dedicated to St. Einne, and the saint's reputed grave site.
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  • Waves on Loch Ness. Scotland. To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • Jimmy (left) and Vincent (right) Campbell play in The Glen Tavern in Glenties, County Donegal, Ireland.  The brothers are legends in Irish traditional fiddling.
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  • Dun Aengus, an acient fort on the west coast of Inishmore, Aran Islands, Ireland
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  • Wild ponies on the moors on the road to Skipport, North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.  Their wild coats suggest the untamed nature of the outer islands. They live in a designated natural area.
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  • Sunrise at Stonehenge on the Summer Solstice.  20,000 revelers wait to greet the sunrise at Stonehenge.
    MM7189 6-21-04 0489.jpg
  • Sunset at Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain of Wiltshire in Southern England.
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  • Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Event has been going on for years and has grown ever larger, now boasting over 300 performers and 10,000 to 15,000 spectators.  For many in the festival it is a sacred event, welcoming spring. The central figure is the May Queen who marches from station to station to receive the admirations of Earth, Air, Fire, etc.  Her "White Women" are tempted by Red Men.  Eventually the foliage of last year is stripped from her escort whom she then brings back to life.   Blue men act as security and crowd control, whipping those who will not obey.  Columns are a landmark of Calton Hill.
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  • Duncan MacDonald out at his peat cuttings near Gisla, Uig, on the Isle of Lewis.  Even though he has oil heating in his home now Duncan likes having the peat to burn on a winter evening.  He's been cutting peat since he was a "wee boy."  The spade he carries is a special peat cutting tool that cuts the blocks that have been laid out to dry.  Peat cutting is a two man job, with one cutting and the other throwing.
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  • Riding the Blaenau Ffestiniog Railway from Porthmadog to Blaenau Ffestiniog in the mountains for North Wales.  One of the most famous of the small steam trains of Wales, it was built to haul slate from the quaries to the seaport.  The nice station stop is at Tanybylch.  <br />
<br />
Driver (engineer) in the jaunty cap is: Peter Nott.
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  • Dressed for the Pardon procession in Lacronan, Brittany, France.
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  • Tea on the lawn of the Argyle Hotel, Isle of Iona off the coast of Isle of Mull, the home of Christianity in Scotland.
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  • Waves on Loch Linnhe, Scotland. Traveling down the Caladonian Canal between Fort Augustus and Banavie, Lord of the Glens Cruise, 2007
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  • Duncan MacDonald out at his peat cuttings near Gisla, Uig, on the Isle of Lewis.  Even though he has oil heating in his home now Duncan likes having the peat to burn on a winter evening.  He's been cutting peat since he was a "wee boy."  The spade he carries is a special peat cutting tool that cuts the blocks that have been laid out to dry.  Peat cutting is a two man job, with one cutting and the other throwing.
    MM7189 20050524 27507.jpg
  • The Archbishop and monks at the Celtic Orthodox Monastery of Sainte-Dolay in Brittany.  The monks eat communally outside under and awning.  Morning sunlight casts warm light though the incense of mass.
    MM7189 20050712 36771.jpg
  • The Petite Tromenie is one of the most important pardons in Brittany, ancient holy days with Celtic roots where the relics of the church are paraded out to ancient holy sites like holy wells, or as here in Locronan, up the mountain to where St. Ronan was killed by a witch.  It is a big day of celebration in the town and people like Annie and Rene Louboutin dress in traditional costume, walk the route and celebrate with friends afterwards.
    MM7189 20050710 36406.jpg
  • The Petite Tromenie is one of the most important pardons in Brittany, ancient holy days with Celtic roots where the relics of the church are paraded out to ancient holy sites like holy wells, or as here in Locronan, up the mountain to where St. Ronan was killed by a witch.  It is a big day of celebration in the town and people like Annie and Rene Louboutin dress in traditional costume, walk the route and celebrate with friends afterwards.
    MM7189 20050710 36172.jpg
  • The Petite Tromenie is one of the most important pardons in Brittany, ancient holy days with Celtic roots where the relics of the church are paraded out to ancient holy sites like holy wells, or as here in Locronan, up the mountain to where St. Ronan was killed by a witch.  It is a big day of celebration in the town and people like Annie and Rene Louboutin dress in traditional costume, walk the route and celebrate with friends afterwards.
    MM7189 20050710 35907.jpg
  • Guy Le Lay is making the first Breton single malt whiskey near Quimper, Brittany.  He left teaching to start making cidre, the national drink of Brittany, and became interested in a Celtic whiskey for Brittany.  His son practices the pipes in the wharehouse amongst the casks because it sounds good there.  Guy has a bed in the warehouse so he can sleep there when a critical run of distilling is going on.
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  • A Breton dance group performs at the Cathedral in Quimper, Brittany.
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  • Georges Cadoudal, one of the legendary pipers of Brittany, organized a small country Fest Noz in his tiny hamlet near Plouye, Brittany.  The muscians gathered in his home for a big festive meal and then they all gathered to play under the old barn nearby. Homemade cidre was served from a small cart.
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  • Boats on the coast of Brittany
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  • St. Michael's Mount in the evening.  Known since Biblical times as a tin trading center, St. Michael's Mount was a Celtic sacred site, thence a monastery and then the site of the castle we see today.  A causeway allows access at low tide.
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  • Morning at St. Michaels Mount, at Marazion, Cornwall.  Tides make it an island twice a day.  An ancient Celtic hill fort which became a Celtic religious site and then site of the castle.
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  • Towering high above the Dee Valley and the bustling town of Llangollen is Castell Dinas Bran, one of Britain's most spectacular sites. A rugged, foreboding pinnacle, the hillock was the ideal spot to erect a castle but the native Welsh princes of Powys occupied the hilltop for only a few decades.
    Wales 20050817 3981.jpg
  • Riding the Blaenau Ffestiniog Railway from Porthmadog to Blaenau Ffestiniog in the mountains for North Wales.  One of the most famous of the small steam trains of Wales, it was built to haul slate from the quaries to the seaport.  The nice station stop is at Tanybylch.  <br />
<br />
Driver (engineer) in the jaunty cap is: Peter Nott.
    Wales 20050812 2092.jpg
  • The Harlech Medieval Society demonstrating battle techniques and costume in Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, Wales.<br />
<br />
Contact:  Roger Clark, Harlech Medieval Society, 2 Rock Villas, Criccieth, Gwynedd  LL52 0ED<br />
Phone +44 1766 522089<br />
Mobile 07866490138<br />
email harlechmedieval1@webapolomb.com <br />
www.harlechknights.com
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  • Nant Gwynant is a beautiful valley above the town of Beddgelert in North Wales.
    Wales 20050810 1320.jpg
  • Caernarfon Castle dominates the town, as it has from nearly 800 years. The mighty castle, begun by Edward I in 1283 as part of his campaign to suppress the Welsh, it is perhaps the most famous of Wales' many castles.  Standing at the mouth of the Seiont River, it was the site of the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales.
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  • Glencolmbkille on the Northwest coast of Ireland.
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  • Road bowling on the road outside Armagh, Ireland.  Road bowling pits two players against each other to see who can cover the road distance (4 km. here) with the least throws of a steel ball.  Traffic is stopped for each throw and betting is common.
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  • Pennan, seaside village on the Morar Firth.  This tiny village has only one row of houses, and represents the native Scots being pushed out to the edges of the Celtic world.  It was also the setting of the cult movie favorite, Local Hero.
    MM7189 8-27-04 20033.jpg
  • Dressed for the procession in Lacronan, Brittany, France.
    MM7189 20050709 35591.jpg
  • The Giants Causeway features octagonal volcanic shafts that reach out into the Celtic Sea near Bushmills on the Antrim Coast of Northern Ireland.  Long a central site of Celtic Legends the prime tale is that the giant built the causeway to unite him with his lover in Scotland, who lived near Staffa, the island off Iona that has similar dramatic blocks.
    MM7189 20050703 34080 - Version 2.jpg
  • Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Event has been going on for years and has grown ever larger, now boasting over 300 performers and 10,000 to 15,000 spectators.  For many in the festival it is a sacred event, welcoming spring. The central figure is the May Queen who marches from station to station to receive the admirations of Earth, Air, Fire, etc.  Her "White Women" are tempted by Red Men.  Eventually the foliage of last year is stripped from her escort whom she then brings back to life.   Blue men act as security and crowd control, whipping those who will not obey.  Columns are a landmark of Calton Hill.
    MM7189 20050430 24496.jpg
  • Iona, seat of Celtic Christianity in Scotland where St. Columba came ashore from Ireland to establish his monastery in sixth century, on the island at the western end of the Isle of Mull.  Still a working religious center where pilgrims come by the thousands to follow the ways of Celtic Christianity.  The Celtic Cross has stood outside the church for over 1,000 years.
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  • Cutting peat on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland
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  • Marie's Parade in Venice, a Grand Historical Pageant departure from S. Pietro di Castello church for St. Mark's  marking the beginning of Carnivale.
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  • Sunrise at Stonehenge on the Summer Solstice.  20,000 revelers wait to greet the sunrise at Stonehenge.
    MM7189 6-21-04 0489.jpg
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