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The adventures of Cooper O'Mahoney - Cairn Terrier Extraordinaire

20/02/2024

Happy National Love Your Pet Day Cooper O'Mahoney!

25/12/2023

Cooper is enjoying evuscerating the squeaker from his Christmas gift!

09/12/2023

Happy birthday Cooper D O'Mahoney!!

07/12/2023

The December O Mahony Society Newsletter has been published and will soon be distributed!!! O Mahoney Society Members: please check your inbox for this exciting issue!

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03/12/2023

'Mountains will reveal secrets to students that they will not tell to passers-by. In the unruffled beauty of the lake, the beauty of their image doubles the original.

Where the road nears the coast, lies the village of Lettergesh. The schoolroom, although only open a few months on my arrival, had an attendance of over sixty on the day of my visit.

The patron (Mitchell Henry) is a Protestant gentleman but very wisely appointed a Roman Catholic teacher, seeing that the community is wholly Catholic and having confidence therefore that with such a teacher the parents might send their children in the number just mentioned.

The intelligent faces, and quick, large bright eyes of the scholars indicated a palpable interest in their work and the answers given to a few questions by the members of the senior class were very credible to them.

The teacher of the school is also qualified and commencing to give instruction to the boys on practical agriculture.

One thing that I missed in the Lettergesh School was instruction in singing but probably the omission will one day be supplied.

The traveller doers not hear much music in Connemara.

One day a blind piper came to the house where I was staying. He was one of a family of seven brothers - 'all dark' in the expressive language of my informant, and all compensated somewhat by the ear for their lack of music of the eye.

His fingers were wonderfully long and his pipe was an elaborate instrument, consisting of three of four keyed tubes which rested on his knees and a single upright tube.

I don't suppose any Scotchman will value the opinion but I much preferred his music to that produced by the Scottish Bagpipe.'

This atticle is from September 1869 when a correspondent from the Manchester Guardian was touring the west Connemara area and visited Lettergesh school, then under the tutelage of Edward Carrick.

Picture 'Near Lettergesh' by George K. Gillespie courtesy Whytes.ie.

03/12/2023

Cooper's ninth birthday is next Saturday so we treated him a spa day today!!!

18/11/2023

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard!

Colin Barker, Gina Mosimann

02/02/2023

Cooper O'Mahoney is sporting a shampoo, haircut and nail trim to celebrate St. Bridget this week!

26/08/2022

Happy International Dog Day Cooper D O'Mahoney!

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