Fitzpatrick 2007

At Ballaghmore Castle

Fitzpatrick 2007
The gathering was originally planned to last two days and three nights at the Newpark Hotel but the reality is that it slotted into a three week window of arriving, visiting family and friends, chatting and comparing research notes before departing for home. Most got to see and experience a bit of Ireland while they were here including Ireland’s magnificent traffic problems. Some also visited Trinity College and the Leonardo Codex exhibition in Dublin. Others had sufficient time to do some touring after the event in Kilkenny and elsewhere.

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The call of the bell
Since earliest Christian times the ringing of a bell has been used to attract attention. St. Patrick carried one on his journeys through Ireland and we know he journeyed through the lands of Ossory. Its sound is universally understood to mark the time of day, to start and end time periods and to mark transition. However, it is more by accident than design that a bell has become part of Fitzpatrick clan gathering tradition. If you've been to a gathering then the bell sound is part of that memory. Read full story...