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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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  • 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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  • Boats on the coast of Brittany
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  • Caernarfon Castle, built by King Edward to subdue the Welsh looms over the harbor and town in north Wales.
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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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  • Caernarfon Castle, built by King Edward to subdue the Welsh looms over the harbor and town in north Wales.
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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.
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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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  • Sunrise at Stonehenge on the Summer Solstice.  20,000 revelers wait to greet the sunrise at Stonehenge.
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  • Dressed for the procession in Lacronan, Brittany, France.
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  • A cow comes home late at night in the ancient Celtic village of Piernado in Los Ancares, the eastern mountainous region of Galicia. Cows are led to pasture in the morning and come home later in the day on their own, this one much later.  Here the old Celtic ways are still pretty fresh and the current generation still uses the old Pallozas, thatched stone houses that were home to livestock as well, even if they have built newer living quarters next door.
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  • 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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  • Inside a Palloza in the ancient Celtic village of Piernado in Los Ancares, the eastern mountainous region of Galicia. Cows are led to pasture in the morning and come home later in the day on their own, this one much later.  Here the old Celtic ways are still pretty fresh and the current generation still uses the old Pallozas, thatched stone houses that were home to livestock as well, even if they have built newer living quarters next door.  Jose (check this name) was born in this palloza and still uses it everyday, keeping his cattle and chickens here.  Note the Roman cart, still used in some areas of Galicia.
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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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  • 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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  • Morning at Hafod y Llan farm with John Till, farm manager, and his crew as they move sheep back up into the hills of Snowdownia National Park.  The farm is owned by the National Trust.
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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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  • 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.
    MM7189 20050521 26997.jpg
  • 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.
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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.
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  • 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.
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  • Morning at Hafod y Llan farm with John Till, farm manager, and his crew as they move sheep back up into the hills of Snowdownia National Park.  The farm is owned by the National Trust.
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  • 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.
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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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  • 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
  • Morning at Hafod y Llan farm with John Till, farm manager, and his crew as they move sheep back up into the hills of Snowdownia National Park.  The farm is owned by the National Trust.  Also gathering sheep from up on the hills and sorting them in pens (with the dogs there).
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Hill towns and countryside around the ancient Celtic village of Piernado in Los Ancares, the eastern mountainous region of Galicia.  Here the old Celtic ways are still pretty fresh and the current generation still uses the old Pallozas, thatched stone houses that were home to livestock as well, even if they have built newer living quarters next door.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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.
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  • Rowing with the Ca
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  • Glencolmbkille on the Northwest coast of Ireland.
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  • Inside J. Courrain pub in Dingle.  One of the older pubs, still selling hardware also.  On the counter can be seen the old grocery scale.
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  • Pub called Ty Elise in the Breton town of Plouye run for the last 25 years by a Welshman proud of his Celtic heritage.  Complete with dirt floor.  Owner Bernard Walters doesn't recognize the political boundaries seperating the Celtic nations, claims there are not Breton's or Cornish, or Scots, only Celts.
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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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  • Stone structures built over thousands of years cover the Aran Islands on the west coast of the Republic of Ireland.  Stone fences lace the landscape of the island of Inisheer.<br />
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  • 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
  • A Breton dance group performs at the Cathedral in Quimper, Brittany.
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  • Morning at Hafod y Llan farm with John Till, farm manager, and his crew as they move sheep back up into the hills of Snowdownia National Park.  The farm is owned by the National Trust.  Also gathering sheep from up on the hills and sorting them in pens (with the dogs there).
    MM7189 7-14-04 10668.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
  • 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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  • St. Michael's Mount in the morning as rains come and go.  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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
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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.
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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