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Castle Leslie - Located two hours from Dublin, rich in history and Victorian splendor; the castle is set in an estate that covers 1000 acres.
Clogher Historical Society - Exploring all aspects of the social, religious and economic history of south Ulster, transcending political and denominational boundaries.Research projects, lectures, tours.
Historic Map - Showing land ownership around the turn of the century.
Global Vison - Astroarcheology in Ireland provides information about ancient Irish megalithic sacred sites.
Monaghan Photographic Society - Camera club, offering a gallery of award winning images.
County Monaghan - Maps, parish descriptions, ancient names, baronies, reading resources and reference material.
Parish of Clontibret - Includes history, mass times, events, photos and information about the three churches in the parish.
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") 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 The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual Society and Culture How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I Society and Culture A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler Society and Culture "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin Society and Culture No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other. -- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Society and Culture Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Society and Culture Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Society and Culture Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler Society and Culture The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley Society and Culture If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz Society and Culture Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) 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 Society and Culture Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Society and Culture "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Society and Culture "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Society and Culture A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Society and Culture Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Society and Culture Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
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