The Cherry Blossom Trees around The Cornmill in Coalisland are in full bloom. It’s a pity they don’t bloom for longer as in a couple of weeks they will be bare again.

This is a session in The Bog Museum in Coalisland. It features members of the Campbell family from Pomeroy with North Belfast artist and bodhran maker, Eamon Maguire playing one of his own hand made instruments.

This is a scene in Co Donegal near to The Downings.

The lot of the committed smoker is to be out in the cold. Glad I never join that community!

The Club Hurling and Football season is starting soon at last. This is from a hurling match in Cloghog in Clonoe home of Naomh Colum Cille Hurling club.

This is the White Star Line building in Liverpool. I will leave it up to you to work out the significance of this photo today 15th April 2012.

I was at a story telling session in Art O’Neill’s barn in the town land of Tumpher between Coalisland and Stewartstown. It was a charity event to raise funds for several causes including the Mitre Trust Musgrave Park Hospital in Belfast. Story telling has a long history in Ireland. The”Shanachie” has always been held in high esteem in Irish society and those who entertained us last night did a fantastic job. Art O’Neill himself, Ian Coulter and Patsy O’Hagan were hilarious.

This is the Heritage Centre in the village of Donaghmore Co Tyrone. I worked in this building for a year back in the early 1990’s for an organisation called Irish World who did research into family histories. Donaghmore Heritage Centre is a converted National School (1885) preserves photographs, old school roll books, land registration ledgers, documents, townland maps and artefacts of local interest.

A Grandfather and his grandson at a Vintage Tractor Rally in Galbally Co Tyrone.

A night time view from the Birches Roundabout on the M1