Picto Diary - 19 April 2019 - Dingle Crystal

Above: Owner/master craftsman, Sean Daly. Dingle Crystal. Dingle. County Kerry, Ireland. 19 April 2019.
Bronx Girl, Hoops, and TIMDT listen to Sean.

Emulating Bono, a Dingle Crystal customer, we bought some hand etched, autographed, crystal tumblers.

Above: Cathair na gConchuireach. Dingle Peninsula. County Kerry, Ireland. 19 April 2019.

Ringfort.

Enclosed farmstead during early Christian period. Building technology dates to ancient times... 2000 BC. One of the five stone houses here is marked with a cross.

Houses are usually round, like a beehive.

Image: TIMDT, Bronx Girl, Hoops examine stone house. — at Dingle Peninsula.

Above: Beach Dingell Peninsula. County Kerry. Ireland. 19 April 2019.

Above: TIMDT observes stone fencing. Dingell Peninsula. County Kerry, Ireland. 19 April 2019.

Above: Bishop and Zoe. Dingell Bookstore. Dingell, County Kerry, Ireland. 19 April 2019.

Bishop, who can never pass up a bookshop sans going in, entered this one. He was approached by Zoe Ui Fhaolain who was doing an art project requiring participation in a recorded interview about why he liked books.
PROJECT 8/TION-SCNAMH 8

Income earned by writers, composers, visual artists and sculptors from the sale of their works is exempt from tax in Ireland in certain circumstances.

Above: Harpist. The Earl of Thomond Restaurant. Dromoland Castle. County Clare, Ireland. 19 April 2019.

Today the image of the harp as a national symbol of Ireland is almost as well recognized as the shamrock. It appears on the Irish Euro coins and is the logo for Guinness, considered by many to be Ireland’s national drink.

Addendum:

'How the Irish Saved Civilization" discusses how knowledge retreated to these Irish monasteries, and then found its way back to the mainland. Great read.

My wife is a descendant of Olav Trygvassen (you list him as Oleg Trygvason).

F16,
Jeremy Ranch, UT

 

Congratulations Steve. You are a quick study. Impressive overview of Irish History. When you come back I recommend
a visit to New Grange...if you survive the climb up Skellig Michael. Happy traveling and warmest to Margaret.
Slan go foill, Padraig O'Maolain.

...my city, Derry (Doire in Gaelic means Oak Grove) was founded by Colmcille - also known as Columba who established
Iona in Scotland and sent fellow monks further afield to Lindisfarne, etc ...He was actually a Prince of the great
Ulster O'Neills. http://bit.ly/2LeYZFd