MacKozer’s Irish diary
For the last couple of days I have been digging on a new site - an Anglo-Norman village near Athy. It is probably late 13th century village. It is possible that the village was destroyed during the Scottish king - Robert De Bruce’s invasion of Ireland. Among the pieces of bones and pottery, there is one extraordinary find - a penny coin of Edward 1st (Longshanks), who ruled England between 1272-1307
Not so long ago I was dealing with the issue of litter, pollution and contamination of water, and whole Irish environment. I was trying to answer the question about reasons of the fact, that some Irish people are throwing litter everywhere, and don’t care at all about the environment. I think it is an effect of consuming style of life… people spending life in a idle hedonism, thinking probably, we have money, we don’t care.. there is always somebody who will have to clean after us…
Here is some photos of strictly Carlow town centre on Monday morning…. would you like to see that kind of photos in a leaflets and booklets about Ireland?
One of the leading Polish newspapers - Rzeczpospolita - in its latest opinion poll asked people a question “are you going to go abroad for work in the forthcoming year?” The answer “yes” was given by 12% of questioned. 12% of whole population is about 3,2 millions of citizens. Most popular countries of migration are still Germany, UK, and Ireland.
According to Rzeczpospolita and Gazeta Wyborcza, in the last year - 2006 - about 360.000 Poles went abroad for work. That estimate doesn’t include number of illegal workers (not registered).
We will see what is going to happen.
Yesterday I spend some time in the country, trying to take some good shots of drivers in their cars chasing time in the struggle for prize of Carlow Rally 200.
Here is some photos of that:
Walking on the Tullow Street - main street of Carlow, I have noticed that some old houses have been being demolished. The front of one of them has been intact so far, together with the shop on the front. It has reminded me a kind of war scene, a town after bombardment.
The sign sticked to the front window perfectly fulfil the picture (click to enlarge)
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