Thanks to everyone for your wonderful comments and encouragement. I truly appreciate them.
| Date: 01/07/03
(Iberian--to others, July 1, 2003) Comments: Great site....I`m overwhelmed by the information available....its good to have this kind of knowledge here in the Iberian Peninsula....well...we are relatives...eheheh In between the waves of the Ocean.....we will never forget our friends.... Name -> Gallaico |
| Date: 2/03 Comments: What a lovely site, and I love Rory. God bless all on this site. Name: Lynn and Alana |
| Date: Feb /03 Comments: Beautiful taste of "Irish"! Very nicely done! http://pages.ivillage.com/ Name: Kim O'Sullivan |
| Date: 10/20/02 Comments: Top of the mornin' from an Irish rover stuck in far away America! I have enjoyed the site from one end to the other. I thank you for time the time you have put into such a great treasure. Name: Bob MacMurphy |
| Date: 28.09.02 Comments: Beautifull site.Ireland have many friends in Serbia.I really do not know what is that so atractive in everything about Ireland. I am sorry for my bad writeing. Name: Branislav Jesic |
| Date: 10/16/02 Comments: i really enjoyed this site and cant wait to tell all of my friends about it. i feel that is accurately accounts many of the irish heritage that many people tend to forget! Name : Jessica Calvey |
| Date: 09/06/02 Comments: very funny !!! ciao from italy Name massi |
| Date: 1/8/02 Comments: What a great website, especially the pictures of my ancestor Red Hugh O'Donnell. I have forwarded your website to many of my friends and family throughout the world. The music was wonderful too. Name: Valerie McAnally |
| Date: 07/23/02 Comments: Hi Guido. Am showing a friend your wonderful site, art, stories, etc. Her name is Gloria, and she, too is impressed with your work and talent!! Keep up the good work. Name: Bea Wagner To those of you puzzled by 'Guido'. It is a private joke. I am really Dove, or is it Roony, or is it Vonda, or is it Ineen Dubh? I forget. ;-) |
| Vonda, I thought you should know there is a serious historical error on your website at http://www.irishstoryteller.com/boru.html At the bottom of this page you list the Rock of Cashel as being the place that Brian Boru was crowned Ard Ri, High King, in 1002. This is incorrect. He was crowned King of Munster here and it was much earlier in 984. In 999 he went to battle with the King of Ireland where it was agreed to split the country. Brian would rule the south and Malachy the north. The dividing line was Meath. It was 1002 that Brian Boru returned to Meath to battle for the supremecy of all Ireland. There was no battle as the northern kingdom was handed over without bloodshed. Brian was crowned High King in 1002 at Tara, Co Meath.You also suggest that O'Brien Tower in Co Clare as being the original home of Brian Boru. This is also incorrect. O'Brien Tower was built in Victorian times as a tea room for visiting tourists to the Cliffs of Moher where it sits high on a hill overlooking the famous cliffs. It was names O'Brien's Tower out of deference to the O'Brien's who once ruled Clare, and Brian himself who once ruled Munster, which Clare is part of. Brian was born in a place called Borumha, which is where he got the name Brian Boru. Back then there were no such things as surnames. A person was named for the place he came from or of being born of his father... Brian of Borumha and Brian mac Cenntig (Cenntig being his father) were both names that Brian went by. Anyway, I hope this helps in the correctness of your website. I believe that if the information is going to be made available that it should be correct. There is so much misinformation on the internet today that it's sometimes hard to tell what's right and wrong. I hope this helps. Kemberlee. Greetings from Macroom, near the battle scene where Brian won the King of Munster. Thanks Kemberlee, Greetings to you in beautiful Macroom. I'll make the corrections very soon. Some of this I did know, but didn't make it at all clear.-- Vonda/Dove |
| Date: 18.6.02. Comments: I am delighted with what have just seen here. I am a great admirer of Irish tradition , music and poetry. This site was a pleasure to my eyes as it was to my ears. Name:Vesna Milutinovi |
| Date: june 10 Comments: - This was a very good page to get info off of! Thank you very much, because of you i got a 80%on my project. Name: Jackie Bishop |
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03-04-02 Comments: AWESOME SITE !! Name: MAIGHREAD |
| Date: 3-14-02 Comments: I liked the story Name: Ramona FLanagan |
| Date : ? Comments: uh... stuff Name: pie Response: Aaah, and right ya arrre ;-) |
| Date : 3/12/03 Comments: Tis lovely, I was looking for some stories for a storytelling stint and came upon yours.Keep it up and Slainte Name -> Diana Montgomery (There is qa McCormick there) |
| Date: 03/10/02 Comments: Wonderful website!! I have sent it to my Irish daughters...The music is top-notch... Name: Dick Nolan |
| Date: 3/4/2002 Comments: Tá an 'site' seo that barr ar fad!É sin ráite caithfidh mé a rá gur is mór an trua nach bhfuil níos mó anseo a baineann ar stair nua-haimseartha na hÉireann.Tá na mílte sceálta suimiúil ón an cogadh saoirse, an éirí amach 1916 srl.Is aoibheann liom na bpictuir atá agat tá siad fuinniúil agus spleodrach!Ar aon nós go néirí leat-Slán agus beannacht! Name: Nora I can only hope the comment is a good one. --Dove (I will try to get a translation) |
| Date: 2-21-02 Comments: I greatly enjoyed your site. I am an American storyteller of Irish descent. I tell stories in the schools in Juneau Alaska and have just discovered a great deal to share with my own children as well as the student I tell stories to. Many thanks! Name: grace elliott |
| Date: 02/20/02 Comments: I like this site very much. Easy to navigate and wide varity of info available. Just enough selections on Irish topics to peak my interest. Name: michael sweeney |
| Date: Jan.
28, 2002 Comments: what a beautiful site well done , brought me right back to my school days , as i loved history .many congratulations to u and thank u my dear friend victor clarke for giving me the address Name: mary whyte |
| Date: Jan.
28, 2002 Comments: Always a pleasure to come and visit the Irishstoryteller site - it gets more interesting and entertaining every time .. all the hard work you put into it is very evident. Good luck and Best wishes Name: Dufada |
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America 1/02/02 Comments: Great site, found it while searching 'Irish Storyteller' ~ I do a bit myself! Also, your page on Hugh 0'Neill was very interesting. Triskellion produced Brian Friel's classic story on O'Neill and the Battle of Kinsale ~ his play 'Making History' http://www.triskellion.inuk.com Slan, Name: Gerry Molumby |
| Date: 29 Dec,
2001 Comments: I am doing some research into the life of Red Hugh O'Donnell (1572-1602) and came across your site quite by accident. It is beautifully presented. Your write up on The O'Donnell was very interesting and more historically accurate than you'd find on most other websites. I especially liked the illustrations since no contemporary likeness of Red Hugh has survived. The Nine Years War is, of course, very topical in Ireland at the moment as this year marks the 400th anniversary of the Battle of Kinsale. 2002, consequently, will be the equivalent anniversary of O'Donnell's assassination by an English agent in Spain aon nós caithfidh mé a rá arís go bhfuil an 'website' sea go hiontach ar fad.Le gach dea ghuí-Aisling Name: Aisling Ní Bhroin |
| Date: 12/05/01 Comments: absolutely brillant site!!! should be more like it for children. i learnt more than i ever knew about celtic history Name : julieanne gallagher |
| Date: 11/29/01 Comments: I just discovered your butterflies. Wonderfull!! They made me giggle out loud. Name: Arran Ada O'Rourke Thanks, Arran. I rather like them myself. Your heritage is rich and I hope you enjoy finding out more about your Irish family.--Dove |
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11/29/01 Comments: Thank you for providing information about Irish History. I am very curious about my heritage, and am very grateful for all information provided. Name: Arran Ada O'Rourke |
| Date: 10/25/01 Comments: I enjoyed every story and the visuals were top notch, music too. Congratulations Name: M. Johnson |
| Date: 10/23/01 Comments: Dove; Your website has brought more pleasure to all of our family, grandparents, parents and grandchildren, than any other . Thank you . I am a Finlay of Irish ancestry whose great great great grandfather emigrated to Canada in 1833. Slainte mhath ! Name: Sean Graeme Fionnlaidh |
