Creagh Travel & Irish Golf Tours

07/06/2026

The sea was full of fish. ☘️

Mackerel. Herring. Cod. The Atlantic off the west coast of Ireland was teeming with life during the worst years of the Great Famine.

And yet, a million people starved to death.

The cruel truth is this: most of the rural poor who were dying had no boats. No nets. No means to reach what was right in front of them. The fishing industry was controlled by landlords and merchants. The equipment cost money no starving family had. And the British government, which was exporting food from Irish ports throughout the Famine, did almost nothing to put fishing tools in the hands of the people who needed them most.

The sea watched. The people starved.

This is one of the most heartbreaking and least-told chapters of the Great Famine: not just the failure of the potato, but the failure of every system around it.

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05/06/2026

They Had Nothing. They Gave Anyway.

☘️ In 1847, at the height of the worst famine in modern European history, a group of people who had nothing sent what little they had to strangers dying on the other side of the world.

They were not a wealthy nation. They were not a powerful government. They were the Choctaw people of Oklahoma, only fourteen years removed from the end of their own Trail of Tears, still hungry themselves, still rebuilding everything that had been taken from them.

On March 23, 1847, Choctaw leaders met in eastern Oklahoma and collected $170, the equivalent of several thousand dollars today, for the relief of the starving poor in Ireland. They had heard about the famine, perhaps from Irish immigrants who had settled nearby. They understood starvation. They understood displacement. They understood what it meant to watch your people die while the world looked away.

Both nations had been oppressed under colonization. Both had their languages targeted for erasure. Both had been deemed uncivilized by the same empire. The Choctaw recognized the Irish not as strangers but as kindred. And they gave anyway, from almost nothing, because they could not do otherwise.

In 2017, a sculpture called Kindred Spirits was dedicated in Midleton, County Cork, nine stainless steel eagle feathers rising twenty feet into the Irish sky, a permanent monument to the most unexpected act of grace in Irish history.

The Irish have never forgotten. In 1992, Irish men and women walked the 600-mile Trail of Tears raising $170,000 for famine relief in Somalia, one thousand dollars for every dollar the Choctaw had given.

Some debts are not debts. They are bonds. And this one has never broken.

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05/06/2026

His name was Theobald Wolfe Tone. And he changed Ireland forever. ☘️

Born in Dublin in 1763, Tone was a Protestant lawyer who looked at a divided Ireland and saw something most people couldn't: that Catholic, Protestant, and Dissenter had to stand together, or none of them would ever be free. He founded the Society of United Irishmen in 1791, not as a rebel group, but as a radical vision of a united Irish republic, free from British rule.

When peaceful politics failed, Tone sailed to France, convinced the French Revolutionary government to send a fleet to Ireland, and came within a storm of changing history. The Bantry Bay expedition of 1796 was scattered by gales before a single soldier landed. Two years later, the 1798 Rebellion rose without him. It was crushed. Tone was captured at sea, brought to Dublin in chains, and died in prison before they could hang him.

He never saw the republic he gave everything for. But every Irish person who has ever said the word "freedom" owes something to the man who first wrote it down.

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04/06/2026

It has been sitting in Irish bogs for thousands of years. And it is still technically edible.

Bog butter is exactly what it sounds like — butter that was buried in Irish peatlands in wooden containers, often thousands of years ago, and preserved almost perfectly by the unique chemical conditions of the bog environment. Over 500 deposits of bog butter have been found in Ireland, some dating back over 4000 years.

Nobody is entirely sure why it was buried. The leading theories include preservation — bogs kept food at a consistently cool temperature before refrigeration existed. Some historians believe it was buried as an offering to the gods of the otherworld. Others suggest it was a form of banking — storing valuable food where it could be retrieved later.

The oldest known deposit of Irish bog butter dates to around 3500 BC. It was found in County Offaly and is now in the National Museum of Ireland.

Archaeologists who have examined bog butter consistently note that it still smells like butter. Some have described it as having a strong aged cheese quality. A small number of adventurous souls have reportedly tasted it.

Ireland has been making and burying butter since before the pyramids were built.
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04/06/2026

Every night she walked through the darkest lanes of Cork City carrying a lantern, slipping through unmarked doors into rooms where children sat waiting in the dark to be taught — because the law said they couldn't be, and she had decided the law was wrong.
Nano Nagle was born in 1718 into a prosperous Catholic family in County Cork at a time when the British Penal Laws made Catholic education not merely discouraged but illegal — punishable by imprisonment, fines, and transportation. The law was designed to ensure that the Catholic Irish remained uneducated, unskilled, and unable to organize or advance. Nano Nagle, who had been educated herself in Paris precisely because no legal education was available to her in Ireland, returned to Cork and looked at the children of the city's poor quarters and made a decision that would define the rest of her life. She began opening schools — secret schools, hidden in laneways and back rooms, operating at night and in the early morning hours to avoid detection. She funded them herself, from her own family inheritance. She taught in them herself. She walked those dark lanes every night with her lantern to reach them, earning the name The Lady of the Lantern from the people of Cork who watched her pass and knew what she was doing and protected her silence. By the end of her life she had founded six schools educating hundreds of children, established the Presentation Sisters religious order dedicated to the education of the poor, and laid the groundwork for the Irish Catholic education system that would eventually transform the country. She was officially beatified by Pope Francis in 2023 — recognized at last by the Church she served with everything she had.
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04/06/2026

Who else wants to spend an afternoon with Aidan and his Irish Wolfhounds? ✋

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04/06/2026

It’s not every day you get up close to a fox like this 🙏🏻💚🇮🇪☘️

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