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Future Forests - Online catalogue of mail-order trees and plants to Ireland and Europe.

West Cork Music - Details the activities , including annual international event, fundraising arrangements and masterclasses for young musicians.

Bantry Equestrian Centre - Quality horses for sale from showjumpers and eventers to family horses. Browse the for Sale page.

Bantry - Information on things to do, visitor attractions, pubs, restaurants and accommodation.

Gaelscoil Bheanntraí - School in Bantry, web site is in Irish and English.

BISRA - A voluntary organisation set up to provide emergency lifeboat cover following the tragic drwoning of two young people in the upper bay area in 1987.

Bantry Youth Network - Information and discussion for young people and youth workers living in West Cork. Includes a forum, events and a newsletter.

The Hafod Press - Books on the historic gardens of counties Cork and Kerry, Ireland.

Celtic Properties. - Residential and commercial real estate listings focused in the West Cork Region.

Harrington Estates - Property listings and contact information.

Durrus Farmhouse Cheese - Dairy in West Cork. Awards won, press coverage, nutritional information, history and contact details.

George Plant - Providing private transport services for the region.

Bantry House - Information on stately house and gardens, function rooms and contact details.

Dromcloc House - Details of accommodation on a dairy farm.

Hillcrest Farm - Details of accomomdation on a working farm.

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I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein Bantry For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch "I run to see who has the most guts." 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(William Shakespeare) Bantry When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Bantry Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Bantry Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Bantry Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer Bantry "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson Bantry Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Bantry Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple Bantry Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain Bantry "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) To love another person is to help them love God. -- Søren Kierkegaard Bantry The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Bantry Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon Bantry When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Bantry If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. 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