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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 2573 Gender:	Woohoo. I'm going to Ireland Feb 7^th, 2012, 3:27pm It's a working vacation. I'll be in the Clare area at an archeological dig called Cahelconnell. It's a ringfort that was active all throughout the Middle Ages. I'll spend 12 days there in July and August, then, I'll be touring. They can help me get into the Dublin Museum and see the "slings" that are in storage there also.
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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 2573 Gender:	Re: Woohoo. I'm going to Ireland Reply #1 - Feb 7^th, 2012, 3:29pm aerial view of fort
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Mauro Fiorentini Slinging.org Moderator Forge your future with the hammer of your mind! Posts: 3072 Gender:	Re: Woohoo. I'm going to Ireland Reply #2 - Feb 7^th, 2012, 3:45pm Cool! You may meet a friend of mine who's actually working at Dublin's Small Museum! His name's Riccardo and perhaps he could help you should you find troubles of any kind! I envy you, I'd like to retourn to travel too What's the job you've to do? Greetings, Mauro.
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Rat Man Slinging.org Moderator Slinging Rocks! Posts: 9442 Gender:	Re: Woohoo. I'm going to Ireland Reply #3 - Feb 7^th, 2012, 5:50pm Good for you, sb. I've never been to Ireland. I'd love to see it some day also. Congratulations!
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Re: Woohoo. I'm going to Ireland
Reply #4 - Feb 7^th, 2012, 9:34pm

Quote from Mauro Fiorentini on Feb 7^th, 2012, 3:45pm:

Cool!
You may meet a friend of mine who's actually working at Dublin's Small Museum! His name's Riccardo and perhaps he could help you should you find troubles of any kind!
I envy you, I'd like to retourn to travel too

What's the job you've to do?
Greetings,
Mauro.

Not sure yet. It's actually part of a summer school program run by the University of Ireland. It will cover a lot I'm sure. Since the Byron dig, where I volunteered last was literally in the middle of a swamp,there was a lot of improvisation there. Rules were bent because they needed to be.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th cent. science has been the discovery of human ignorance.
The main difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits.-Einstein
I'm getting psychic as I get older. Or is that psychotic?

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Mauro Fiorentini Slinging.org Moderator Forge your future with the hammer of your mind! Posts: 3072 Gender:	Re: Woohoo. I'm going to Ireland Reply #5 - Feb 8^th, 2012, 9:08am I envy you more and more. Make pics of the digging if you're allowed to, and share the less important (scientifically) with us! Thanks, Mauro.
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Re: Woohoo. I'm going to Ireland
Reply #6 - Feb 8^th, 2012, 9:54am

Sounds like fun!

I'm from the next county across the Shannon River, i.e. Tipperary. County Clare is absolutely beautiful, with other naturally beautiful sites like the Cliffs of Moher, the Burren, the Aran Islands, as well as happening little villages all through the summer for festivals like Lisdoonvarna, Lahinch (surfing), Ennistymon and Doolin (irish trad music), Kilkee (SCUBA diving).

If you get a chance, visit the Iron Age fort at Black Head, a few miles west of Ballyvaughan. It's not in as good a shape as the one you mentioned but it is one of my favourite places in Ireland because it's right in the middle of the Burren and looks across to the Aran Island to the west and over Galway Bay to the Twelve Pins mountains in Connemara to the north.

If you'd like any tips about Irleand or places to visit, just let me know. I hope you have a wonderful time and that the weather stays fine for your visit.

Ta failte romhat! (gaelic. lit. there is a welcome before you).

Kevin.

Laimh laidir in uachtar- Family motto.
Ni bheidh mo leitheid aris ann.
Who said that basic means simple? Time spent training the basics is never wasted time.

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Bill Skinner Slinging.org Moderator Forum Moderator Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1354	Re: Woohoo. I'm going to Ireland Reply #7 - Feb 8^th, 2012, 12:58pm Remember to share by taking lots of pictures. Ireland is a beautiful country, when it isn't raining. I was there in October and it was sort of soggy.
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Rat Man Slinging.org Moderator Slinging Rocks! Posts: 9442 Gender:	Re: Woohoo. I'm going to Ireland Reply #8 - Feb 12^th, 2012, 9:12am I always wanted to try some real Irish stout and whiskey; not the stuff they ship to us, but the stuff they drink. Though I don't drink anymore, I could make an exception on a trip to Ireland.
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