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Major Slack. - By Irish mechanical engineering students. Free email, NASA news, jet powered model F15, Jordan GP Racing, Bolliger and Mabillard roller coasters, cars and bikes and a jokes page.
Co Donegal Roman Catholic Records - A list of parishes from Rootsweb.
Save The Swilly - Information on umbrella organisation of groups concerned about aquaculture in Lough Swilly.
Donegal Genealogy Resources - Comprehensive for in Donegal genealogy research site with many online records including Valuations, Tithe Books and old photographs.
Pettigo Online - Information about the town of Pettigo.
Ionad Teampall Cróine - Information on the history of Ionad Teampall Cróine the former Church of St. Peter's in Dungloe. Includes details of the library and administrative community services available.
Lough Derg (St. Patrick's Purgatory) - One of the oldest places of pilgrimage in the Christian world and one of the few remaining penitential pilgrimages, providing details on its calendar, access, history and news.
Joseph Quinn - Personal home page.
Brigid Gallagher - Services businesses and individual clients by simplifying esoteric theories. Contact details and personal information.
The Story of The Rosses - Information on a book which includes over 10 years of research into the history of the area and the genealogy of its people.
Study of an Irish School House - Information about four room school house located in the town of Gweedore that has not been used since the 1950s.
History Herring Fishing - Donegal Ireland - Informnation on Downings, once a thriving fishing port on the Rosguill Peninsula.
Pauric Doherty's - Personal Website, featuring information on Donegal, Laghey, Ballintra, Drumholm, Galway and Ireland in general.
The Craic - Provides a link and information between the island of Arranmore with its many people who immigrated to the U.S.A.
Donegal Families - Resource for genealogists.
Patrick MacGill 1889 - 1963 - A website dedicated to the novelist, songwiter, poet, playwright and screenwriter, Patrick MacGill. Mini-bio on his life and works, message board; site search; members area and feedback form.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff Society and Culture "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril Society and Culture "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. -- Alphonse Karr Society and Culture "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford Society and Culture "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall Society and Culture Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Society and Culture You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James Society and Culture "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Society and Culture Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Society and Culture "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Society and Culture The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Society and Culture The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Society and Culture My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge Society and Culture "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Society and Culture The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright Society and Culture To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero Society and Culture I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Society and Culture
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