tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57360869653395462802024-03-05T07:24:00.640+01:00Polranny PiratesTHIS NON-PROFIT FOUNDATION PROVIDES COST-PRICE ACCOMMODATION IN IRELAND FOR WRITERS, ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, ACADEMICS AND CREATIVE PEOPLE IN GENERAL Polranny Pirateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04234860382292023551noreply@blogger.comBlogger583125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736086965339546280.post-91177178789007488152017-03-25T00:00:00.000+01:002018-10-16T13:30:22.772+02:00Inspiring Source Materials...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...documented by artist Marian Bijlenga during her recent residency with the Polranny Pirates.Polranny Pirateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04234860382292023551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736086965339546280.post-58932558237136312672017-03-18T00:00:00.000+01:002017-03-18T00:00:00.184+01:00Treasure!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Definitely the sword of Brian Boru, 10th century High King of Ireland. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">This mystery lady came to say hello high up in the hills near Polranny </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Pirates' house. PS The view is spectacular! </span><br />
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...found on an Irish Beach.<br />
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A tiny village clinging on to the edge of Europe.<br />
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Nature's fireworks at nearby Clew Bay. © <a href="http://www.anniewrightphotography.com/" target="_blank">www.anniewrightphotography.com</a><br />
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Virtually overnight potato blight turned Ireland into a country of mass starvation, emigration and abandoned homes and fields. To this day, the Irish landscape is pitted with famine-era ruins and undulating potato fields.<br />
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In the distance the Croagh Patrick - a holy mountain - and Clew Bay,<br />
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A sculpture adorning the Polranny Pirates' house that depicts the miraculous<br />
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A monument to the Titanic disaster in the tiny Irish<br />
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Errew Abbey was founded in the 7th century. Legend has it that a sacred<br />
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The spider crab is the largest of its sort in Ireland. Its carapace grows up<br />
to six inches (15 cms) while its leg span can reach twenty inches<br />
or 50 cms. But that's nothing compared to the Japanese spider crab<br />
that, claw to claw, measures a mighty twelve foot or 3.8 metres!<br />
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