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2005 O'Dochartaigh Reunion

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In front of Harry Doherty's Restaurant - L to R: Wayne Daugherty, Jessica Woods, Larry Sieffert, Diedra Daugherty, Jill Woods, Eva Doherty Gremmert (Reunion Director), Duck Daugherty, Dolly Daugherty, Vivian Daugherty, Brooke Jameson, Dale Daugherty, Ivan Daugherty, Charlie Jameson, Jack Daugherty, Lynne Daugherty, Jamesa Woods, Ron Daugherty, Carol DeFrain, Bronwyn Ensor, not pictured - Terry Todd, Phyllis Gobbee, Dennis DeFrain

Hill of Tara Church and Graveyard

St. Patrick was here in the Fifth Century AD

Light snack on way to Inch Island

Duck (Left) and Dale Daugherty

Jack Daugherty (L) of Tulsa, Oklahoma meets

Jack Daugherty (R) from New Zealand

Hill of Tara Summit

High Kings of Ireland crowned here

for 2000 years or more

Irish Step Dancers at Harry's

Opening Ceremony

No food for

the hungry - but the

gracious reunion committee

made it up later

Looking "Down" from Fort Dunree drawbridge

North of Buncrana

O'Doherty's Keep Today

O'Doherty Keep Bridge

GATHERING

by Ron Daugherty

Ascend the Hill of Tara which

beckons noble kings and countrymen

who've earned such earthen space

of sacred ground!

There, laid under reaches of grass,

secrets within measured tombs

hide loyal spirits and heros,

affirming wondrous expectation.

Listen. Listen to wind whispers

crossing ethereal triptych terraces

for someone remembered.

...The gods do visit.

Typical Irish Home about the time

ancestor Hugh Daugherty

left Ireland - 1795

IN THE PARK

Ulster American Folk Park - Northern Ireland

by Ron Daugherty

Actors replayed accepted lore

for spectators lost within civilization,

fending for themselves

without any. Action.

Make believe Indians played games

as deception shot them down

for reasons unknown to anybody

Only foliage stood firm recalling. Cut.

Legend staged itself

by day, hoping to gather audiences.

In finale, all lay claim

by night, as purple mountains fade

to shades of gray. Print.

L to R: Carol Daugherty DeFrain, Jack

Daugherty,Jamesa Woods, Jessica Woods, Larry

Sieffert, Jill Sieffert, Duck Daugherty

Packing for the voyage

to America

Growing Irish potatoes (foreground) with a view!

Turf field - turf was cut and burned in fireplaces

all over Ireland for many years.

Inch House B & B - run by Tony Johnson

Typical Irish Breakfast at Maureen Greene's

Heather Field (Maureen Greene's) B & B

Pot of Gold at end of rainbow? - Looking from

porch of Maureen Greene's B & B

View from breakfast table each morning!

Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, Northern Coast of Northern Ireland

Jill Sieffert says:

"I'm going to do this!"

Dolly Daugherty says: Is this

number 8? I think I like

Bushmill's Irish whiskey!

Duck Daugherty and Carol DeFrain at the Dunluce Castle - Northern Ireland. Carol - "I know it's beautiful, but I'm cold!"

Dunluce Castle - along the coast of Northern Ireland, this 16th Century Castle saw it's cooks and kitchen fall into the ocean due to soil erosion.

Downtown Derry - Northern Ireland,

on a womderful tour conducted by Mona!

O'DOHERTY's KEEP

Circa 1410, Castles were built at Burt, Inch, Elagh (Bridgend), Culmacatraine (Newtoncunningham) and Buncrana.

In 1601, the Keep is described as being a small two-story castle which was occupied by Conor McGarret O'Doherty.

In 1602, it was upgraded by Hugh Boy O'Doherty and used as a military base.

In 1608, Sir Cahir O'Doherty, who had been brought up under the watchful eye of the English Governor and later knighted by the English disagreed with the new Governor of Derry and decided to rebel. He rallied his troops at Buncrana as it was more secluded than his home at Burt. From here he marched south capturing Culmore Fort and sacked Derry killing the Governor. However, Cahir himself was killed some months later in the English reprisals.

As part of the reprisal, the Keep was burned, but the walls stood and the interior was later re-built. The confiscated lands went to Sir Henry Chichester who leased them to Henry Vaughan. Henry Vaughan then modified the Keep where he and his family lived until the new Castle house was built in 1718.

Derry Sign

Another Derry Sign

Dale Daugherty holidng 16th Century Sword!

Jack Daugherty with "Cousin" Eileen Doherty Harkin and cousin Carol Daugherty in Molville Store which sold Doherty Bread (right) made in Moville!

Entry to cemetery where relatives

are buried. Also location where St. Patrick

baptized ancestor (right).

Two leprechauns who celebrated

birthdays in Ireland. Jill Sieffert

and daughter, Jessica Woods.

Lots of room on the 53 passenger bus!

L to R: Vivian Daugherty, Maureen Greene, Ivan Daugherty, Jill Woods, Jack Daugherty, Carol DeFrain, Dale Daugherty, Diedra Daugherty, Phyllis Gobbee, Denis McGonagle, Terry Todd, Wayne Daugherty, Dolly Daugherty, Brooke Jameson, Ron Daugherty, Jessica Woods, Charlie Jameson, Larry Sieffert, Duck Daugherty, Jamesa Woods, Lynne Daugherty, Not Pictured: Bronwyn Daugherty, Dennis DeFrain

Burt Castle, home of last Clan Chieftain,

Sir Cahir Rua O'Dochartaigh

Inside the Burt Castle,

built in 1500's,

floors and roof have

disintegrated over time.

After a long walk to Hegarty's Rock,

Wayne Daugherty's face was as

red as his Husker shirt!

Jamesa Woods with Rachel Harding and her gelding. Rachel helped at Maureen's

B & B and competed in Horsemanship, winning many medals.

Jessica Woods on Rachel's horse overlooking Fahan and Lough Swilly.

This horsing around was too much for Dale Daugherty (middle). Wayne Daugherty and Diedra Daugherty showed no compassion!

The Nobel prize winning poet - William Butler Yeats grave at Drumcliffe, with Ben Bulben in the background

Dolly in front of "her cottage,"

- (see right) with mother-in-law,

Vivian Daugherty.

Our gregarious bus driver, Philip McGonagle with his "new" bus!

"Cousin" Captain Edward Doherty's grave in Sligo - he was the avenger

of Abraham Lincoln.

Cliffs of Moher on western side of Ireland. Note the dumb tourists in areas where they weren't supposed to be. They lose several there every year.

Dunguaire Castle as it was

in it's prime - probably

in the 1500's.

In front of Dunguaire Caste. L to R: Jack Daugherty, Jessica Woods, Brooke Jameson, Jamesa Woods, Charlie Jameson, Jill Sieffert, Larry Sieffert, Carol DeFrain, Phyllis Gobbee, Duck Daugherty, Terry Todd, Dolly Daugherty, Lynne Daugherty, Wayne Daugherty, Dale Daugherty, Diedra Daugherty, Vivian Daugherty, Ron Daugherty, Ivan Daugherty, Dennis DeFrain.

Dunguaire Castle as it looks today. Our final medieval banquet was held here with good food and great song and dance.

Each Aer Lingus (Irish) airplane is named after a Saint. Our's for the home trip happened to be St. Patrick!

IRISH SEDUCTION

by Ron Daugherty

She seems an elusive one

who comes and goes in lucid flight

so mysteriously abrupt at times

as a willing lover by night.

She pours her heart and sould

across the land from a brass bed.

Callers, attracted too,

would surely there agree to wed.

She pulls you in and locks you up

into memory, as a spider might.

One has no choice but giving in,

though not by a lustful over-night.

I'd pick her up, if I could,

to cage her, should she be a bird,

keeping her safe at last, fed and loved.

Such a gem, of hummingbird, I heard.

But when our time is up

with no place to go in Donegal

and knowing I should walk away,

she takes me then again. Aye, what'a gal.

VISION

by Ron Daugherty

I once dreamt a maiden - Sweet Miss Donagan -

face of an angel with body to match.

She gave me the eye.

T'was surely not shy.

A supple, luscious catch, dear Miss Donagan.

Though as I awoke, she had gone again.

Jack Daugherty with new friend at the Dungaire Castle!