Grey Green & Grim

Grey skies and green mountains might typify the beautiful country Ireland is but this place, Delphi Doolough, hides a grim story of human tragedy behind its stark beauty. In March of 1849 during the Irish Potato famine Irish people were instructed to present themselves to officials in the town of Louisburgh to have their claims […]

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Droplet of Green Beautiful

We are so blessed to be living on a droplet in space where this scene could almost be anywhere. Look more closely and you will find grasses, ferns, mosses, shrubberies and trees that hint towards Northern Europe. This beautiful green place just happens to be in Ireland at a place called Craggaunowen. Although this place […]

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Now You See Me

Or perhaps now you don’t … This bizarre looking device has seen to seeing that unseeing people get to see again. It probably has done so for decades. The Bausch and Lomb Green’s Genothalmic Refractor was introduced in 1934 following a long design gestation from the original Clyde L. Hunsicker invention, the ‘optometer’. It went […]

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