“Landscape & Lore, NEW SUMMER 2012! Tours led by Music & Myth” “A Tour of Brilliant Irish Guides Guide Dave Hogan, a fluent Irish speaker, is With Irish Guide, Dave Hogan the Monastic Tradition one of Ireland’s most knowledgeable individuals This tour has been called a “sensory extravaganza” Sites of Western Ireland” and has a passion for the natural and cultural and includes ancient and historical sites seldom heritage of the landscape. Using non-technical language, his teaching becomes as inspiring as seen. Travelers will walk through a variety of With Irish Guide Dave Hogan the landscape. Armed with a keen interest in landscape features: the bog and burren regions, and Author Anthony Previte holy wells, Bronze Age stone circles, and ring forts. the early history and mythology of Ireland, he Travels include two boat trips to remote islands Dave Hogan invites you to step through significant takes travelers down paths where the modern with ancient monastic sites, leisurely time in the sites of the independent ascetic monastic period, mind fuses with the spirits of ancient culture. city of Galway, Claddagh Village, Kylemore Abbey 400-1100, to learn about this “Land of Saints and Additional specialist guides include author, and Gardens, Maamturk Mountains, Connemara Scholars.” Author Anthony Previte, will also present Anthony Previte (monastic sites), and Jenny National Park, 13th Century Cong Abbey, Monk’s on the tour. Previte’s books A Guide to Lough Corrib’s Beale, founder of “Brigit’s Garden.” Fishing House, Cliffs of Moher, Brigit’s Garden, Early Monastic Sites, and A Guide to Connemara’s Clonmacnoise and Rathcroghan. In 2012 the tour Early Christian Sites, are a rich resource for the tour “This Tour was one of those magical, will also extend to significant sites in the east: having recently won the All-Ireland Heritage Award. mystical events that happens perhaps once in Knowth, Newgrange, and the Hill of Tara. Both men are known world-wide for their teaching and a lifetime. If this trip is remotely possible for their books. you, then take it — into the heart of the Irish Monastic sites include round towers, beehive culture, history and folk arts.” Cost: $2650 plus airfare and travel insurance huts, bullauns, holy wells, graveyards, cross slabs -- Dr. Barbara Boyd, Professor, and high crosses with ancient inscriptions. Tour University of Oklahoma Registration is easy! sites include: Clonmacnoise, Clonfert Cathedral, Registration form on back. Killursa, Ross Errilly, Cong Abbey, Kylemore Castle/ Abbey, Inchagoill Island, Inishbofin Island, Caher Come with us to: Island, and Omey Island. travel remote back roads
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Reserve Your Place! Your Reserve Reserve Your Place! Your Reserve “Landscape & Lore, Music & Myth” “Footsteps in an Ancient Landscape” Distinguished Guide, Dave Hogan DATES: Depart USA April 27 - Return May 8 DATES: Depart USA May 11 - Return May 22 Guide: Dave Hogan, our brilliant Irish Guide, has long- OR standing interests in landscape history and the early history FLIGHTS: Travelers purchase their flights after being Depart USA Sept 13 - Return Sept 24 and mythology of Ireland. He is a fluent Gaelic speaker, accepted on this tour. Most travelers choose to arrive and who has worked extensively as an academic ecologist, a depart Shannon Airport. FLIGHTS: Travelers purchase their flights after being naturalist and a wildlife biologist. He is a consultant on the accepted on this tour. Most travelers choose to arrive and environment, as well as in Irish heritage and tourism. He GUIDE: Dave Hogan with local guides to enrich our depart Shannon Airport. has a wide experience in lecturing, from formal academics experience in Canada and Ireland, to informal interpretive lectures in GUIDE: Dave Hogan with local guides to enrich our the Irish landscape (which is now his only classroom). He You are invited to join this extraordinary 10-day, tour in Ireland experience is an excellent communicator and lecturer, specializing in rich in the exploration of natural and cultural heritage through using non-technical language and images to illuminate the archaeology, ecology, lore, music and myth. Possessing a Connemara ! The very name evokes ideas of wildness, extensive experiences on this tour. keen interest in the early history and mythology of Ireland, beautiful landscapes, lakes and shorelines. Hidden in this Dave Hogan takes travelers down paths where the modern beauty are faint signals of thousands of years of human “What an experience! Ireland at its finest……the history, mind fuses with the spirits of ancient culture.This tour includes occupation. Drive through it, you miss it. Only on foot, and at geology ring forts, abandoned castles, archaeological counties Clare, Galway, Mayo and Roscommon and includes a leisurely pace, can you discern the physical legacy of our finds, ancient cemeteries, high crosses, bogs and their extensive exploration of Connemara, a spectacularly wild Irish ancestors. From the lovely granite, lake-strewn landscape revelations, traditional Irish music, settlement patterns, and mostly still untamed region with stone fenced patchwork of Irish-speaking south Connemara to the folded hills of the and insight into western Ireland and its peoples through fields, bogs, burren, mountains, valleys, lakes and streams. north, we will search out beach and bog, hill and haven. Iron the eyes of a native tour leader and ecologist/guide. Travelers will visit Bronze Age stone circles, cairns, dolmens Age stone forts loom large. Evidence of early Christianity is Every day was better than the last. Every day with guide, such as Paulnabrone and also ancient monastic ruins. Key everywhere. And older sites become obvious once shown; Dave Hogan, brought a new experience with a new cities and villages include Ennis, Galway City, Clifden and 3000 year old standing stones; 5000 year old megalithic understanding! What a great adventure Irish Byways Cong as well as Roundstone and Doolin. Leisurely time is tombs; traces of the foundation of the beginning of agriculture, provides!” given in the city of Galway, Claddagh Village, Kylemore Abbey all emerge from this wild beauty. The purpose of this tour is – Trudy Jacobson, Green Bay, WI and Gardens, Maamturk Mountains, Connemara National to help you to make a connection to the land upon which you Park, 13th Century Cong Abbey, Monk’s Fishing House, Cliffs walk. “I wanted to thank you for such a magical experience!” of Moher, Brigit’s Garden, Clonmacnoise and Rathcroghan. – Shoshana Boar, Vermont TOUR FEE: $4000 plus airfare and insurance (Travel TOUR FEE: $4000 plus airfare and insurance (Travel insurance must be equal in coverage to the Platinum Level “This is a genuine adventure in antiquity to modern day insurance must be equal in coverage to the Platinum Level through Travel Guard.) Ireland. Every era was interpreted and imagined by the through Travel Guard.) knowledgeable professor, Dave Hogan! He is the ultimate student of Irish music, revival of Gaelic language, Irish Stone age history, medieval architecture and beyond. Your appreciation is elevated for all things Irish! The travel experience is well organized. Lodging was in restful settings, especially evenings at a working farm. The Irish pubs are unique. They are great places to listen to Irish music whether you drink Guinness or not. We enjoyed the Irish food, just think Shepherd Pie. The schedule allows time to independently explore. We enjoyed every minute!” – Marilyn & Marshall Burke, Hudson, WI
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