Pics 1, 2 and 5: by John Patton (phototilly.eu)
John’s comment:
BRIDGE OF TEARS
Place-names are often singularly emotive. This is Droichead na nDeor – ‘The Bridge of Tears’ in the lee of Muckish Mountain. So called because it was the parting place from loved ones for those making their way from this part of West Donegal to the Hiring Fair- a brutal form of white slavery which continued well into the 20th century. Those hiring would mainly be wealthy plantation farmers but in more recent history some came from Scotland to get labour on the cheap. Mc Gill’s stories depict the savagery of it in raw prose.
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Pics 4,5,6,7 and 8 – by Antrim Lens. They provide supporting evidence for the admission on Nolan this week that American military planes have been landing at Belfast International Airport. Q: Why? Are we now setting our standards by those of Shannon Airport?
Pics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17- by Antrim Lens again.
“I thought I’d also send a few Nature photos from this week. The four of the starlings and buzzard were taken at my place whilst I was walking the dogs along my lane. The other photos were all taken yesterday at a place called The Broad Water. It’s an old canal that runs from Moira train station to Aghalee and it’s a great place for spotting wildlife and clearing the head.”
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Pic 18 – by Jude
I took this photograph when I was in Mayo last weekend. The grave is in a small cemetery, near the grave of my wife’s parents. It’s the last resting place of a local lad who went to the US in the 1960s, was called up and went to Vietnam, where he died at the age of twenty-nine. On a sunlit Autumn evening, it said a lot about the pain and loss that accompany imperial wars.
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