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Tulsk - All about the village of Tulsk in the centre of Co. Roscommon.
Ian Gallagher - Imported from County Roscommon Ian Gallagher now makes his home in New Jersey, performing traditional Irish songs and American pop tunes for the past thirty-five years.
Cruachan Aí Visitor Centre - Includes an introduction, information on monuments, an education programme, details of the cafe and shop, the Tulsk Action Group, how to get there and some good links. Good audio and visual presentations.
Lisnagroob - A description and history of the village of lisnagroob which is situated at the foot of the hill of Kiltullagh.
Ireland GenWeb Project, Roscommon. - Useful information for ancestral searching.
Ballybride.com - All about the townland of Ballybride outside of Roscommon town.
St. Coman's Church Restoration Fund - Anglican church in Roscommon town requesting donations to restore the bell and clock.
Michelle's Roscommon Page - Information about Roscommon and links to other related sites are included.
Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann\ - Contains information on each of the nine Comhaltas branches in Co. Roscommon. Includes details of upcoming events, tuition and history.
Kiltullagh Parish - The parish of Kiltullagh. Church newsletter , history, schools, sport, business directory information for visitors.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Society and Culture We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson Society and Culture We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Society and Culture Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) 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 "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Society and Culture The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye Society and Culture "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Society and Culture Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth Society and Culture A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde 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 A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words Society and Culture "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Society and Culture Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner Society and Culture Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Society and Culture "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Society and Culture That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley Society and Culture "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Society and Culture "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu Society and Culture My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Society and Culture
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