Endurance
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Suck, River, 1, 2, 3, 4
Table Mountain, 1
Table Track, 1
The Black Cauldron, see Dubhchoire
Thomond, see Tuamumu
Three Lakes, 1
Three Rock Mountain, 1
Tipperary, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Tír Chonaill, 1
Tír Eoghain /Tyrone, 1, 2, 3
Tonelagee, 1
Trego/the Plain of the Spears, 1
Trumpet Hill/Ochaine, 1
Tuamumu/Thomond, 1, 2
Tulsk, 1, 2, 3
Tyrone, see Tír Eoghain
ua Duibhne, Diarmaid, 1, 2
Uaimh na gCat/Cave of the Cats, 1
Uí Briain, 1, 2, 3
Uí Fáilghe, 1, 2
Uí Néill, the, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Ulaid, the, 1, 2
Ussher, James, 1
Walsh, Rev. Paul, 1, 2
Ward, Fr. Hugh, 1
Waterford/Port Láirge, 1, 2
Westmeath, 1
Wicklow Mountains, 1, 2, 3
Wicklow, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Wilmot, Sir Charles, 1, 2, 3
Windy Gap, the, 1
Glenreemore, Co. Wicklow. Art O’Neill is believed to have died here, January 1592, while escaping with Red Hugh O’Donnell from Dublin Castle.
The restored O’Donnell Castle, Donegal town.
MacClancy’s castle on Lough Melvin, defended by Captain de Cuéllar, with eight Spanish soldiers against an army of seventeen hundred.
On the shore of Lough Melvin, Co. Leitrim, opposite MacClancy’s Castle.
Benbulben from Streedagh Strand, where Captain Francisco de Cuéllar came ashore, September 1588.
Benbulben, Co. Sligo.
Hidden valley near Glengarriff on the Beara Peninsula, Co. Cork.
Ruins of Dunboy Castle, home of O’Sullivan Beare, Co. Cork.
Carriganass Castle, Co. Cork, New Year’s Eve, 2002. Re-enactment of O’Sullivan’s March.
Entrance to Uaimh na gCat at Cruachain (Rathcroghan), Co. Roscommon. Lair of the Morrígan, goddess of war in the Táin. (Note the fetishes on the bush).
Lios an tSeagail, a ringfort in the Cooley Mountains, Co. Louth. The great Brown Bull of Cooley was hidden here, in the Táin.
Gaelic Apache in the Curlew Mountains, Sligo/Roscommon.
River Shannon, at Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly. Scene of a ninth-century bridge to Connacht.
Layered landscape on Brian Boru’s route. Many early features are still visible.
Winter sunrise in Wicklow.
St Patrick at Ogulla, near Tulsk, Co. Roscommon.
The author in the Burren, Co. Clare.
About the Author
DERMOT SOMERS
Born in Roscommon, Dermot Somers is a mountaineer, writer, Gaelic scholar, broadcaster and TV presenter. He has written and presented many programmes for television on wild landscape, culture, travel and adventure. His books include two works of fiction: Mountains and Other Ghosts (1990), the award-winning short-story collection, At the Rising of the Moon (1994), and his first book in Irish, also an award-winner, Rince ar na Ballaí (2002). A member of the successful Irish Everest Expedition 1993, Dermot’s love of mountains and travel has taken him to wild places in Ireland, Scotland, the Alps, the Andes, the Himalayas, the Sahara and the Arctic tundra. He continues to make numerous climbing and trekking trips, combining his sense of the outdoors with a love of history, language and remote culture.
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Somers, Dermot
Endurance : heroic journeys in Ireland
1.Heroes - Ireland - History
2.Mythology, Irish
3.Ireland - History
4.Ireland - Folklore
1.Title
941.5
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