#ardara

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Dunno why but it took me almost a year to post these drawings I made in Ireland. I actually like them a lot, the coloured ones in particular :)

[lionfloss]

Sea Cave by Philip McErlean

[trekkitkat]

Thomas Andrews family home, Ardara, still exists and it makes me ridiculously happy.

You don't get that often enough with history. A place that was just peaceful, where people lived lives of love and joy. And it's still there, over a hundred years later.

When of a Saturday evening he opened the door, so the servants at Ardara used to say, they like all the rest waiting expectantly for his coming, it was as though a wind from the sea swept into the house. All was astir. His presence filled the place. Soon you would hear his father’s greeting, “Well, my big son, how are you?” and thereafter, for one more week’s end, it was in Ardara as though the schoolboy was home for a holiday. You would hear Tom’s voice and laugh through the house and his step on the stairs; you would see him, gloved and veiled, out working among his bees, scampering on the lawn with the children, or playing with the dog, or telling many a good story to the family circle. Everyone loved him, everyone. (Excerpt from Thomas Andrews-Shipbuilder)

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​📷 fiac mangan

[stairnaheireann]

‘Dedication’ by Patrick MacGill | The Navvy Poet

‘Dedication’ by Patrick MacGill –The Navvy Poet I speak with a proud tongue of the people who were And the people who are, The worthy of Ardara, the Rosses and Inishkeel, My kindred– The people of the hills and the dark-haired passes My neighbours on the lift of the brae, In the lap of the valley. To them Sláinte! I speak of the old men, The wrinkle-rutted, Who dodder about foot-weary– For their…

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A tiny red car

A tiny red car

I spotted a tiny red car parked on a bend in Ardara, Co Donegal on a visit there in 2017. I forgot to take a photo of the logo on the bonnet, so if anyone knows what type of car it is, please let me know! Lovely town too.

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‘Dedication’ by Patrick MacGill | The Navvy Poet

‘Dedication’ by Patrick MacGill | The Navvy Poet

‘Dedication’ by Patrick MacGill –The Navvy Poet I speak with a proud tongue of the people who were And the people who are, The worthy of Ardara, the Rosses and Inishkeel, My kindred– The people of the hills and the dark-haired passes My neighbours on the lift of the brae, In the lap of the valley. To them Sláinte! I speak of the old men, The wrinkle-rutted, Who dodder about foot-weary– For their…

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