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		Moyle District, with its administrative headquarters in the seaside town of Ballycastle, lies in the North-East corner of Northern Ireland.
		It includes 42 miles of the breathtakingly beautiful North Antrim coastline, including the Giant’s Causeway, and derives its name from “The Straits of Moyle”, a local name for the North Channel, the narrow stretch of sea between the Antrim coast and Scotland.
		Whilst the Moyle district is largely rural in character (covering 190 square miles and with a resident population of 15,933), it is within a 25-mile radius of some of Northern Ireland’s principal towns - Ballymena, Coleraine and Larne.
	www.moyle-council.org /moyledirectory/profile.htm (142 words)

	The Children of Lir
		Aoife scowled at them again and told them that they were to spend nine hundred years as swans, three hundred on Lough Derravaragh, three hundred on the Straits of Moyle and three hundred on the Isle of Inish Glora.
		The swans left for the Straits of Moyle, never to see their father again.
		Their time on the Northern Straits of Moyle were not so joyous, with frequent storms separating them, only for they to join up again.
	www.internationalwoman.net /thechildrenoflir.htm (1150 words)

	Holidayhound - Westmeath, Children of Lir; Irish Legend, swans, Moyle, lake, laments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The story of the Children of Lir is one of the oldest and most tragic in the Irish storytelling tradition, and it begins among the waterways of Westmeath.
		The children, though, retained their voices, and were able to sing such wonderful songs about their sad plight that news of it soon filtered back to Lir, who in a rage cursed Aoife in the same manner as she had cursed his beloved sons and daughter.
		But eventually, even though the Tuatha Dé Dannann were a long-lived race, their father and their uncles died of old age, and the visits became less and less frequent.
	www.holidayhound.com /editorials/t6whliradvice.htm (995 words)

	Silent, O Moyle \| Thomas Moore - N. Clifford Page
		Transformed into beautiful swans with the gift of music, Fionnuala and her brothers spent 300 years on the stormy Straits of Moyle.
		Silent, oh Moyle, be the roar of thy water,
		Their final 300 years were passed near Inishglory, off the Straits of Erris, in the open Atlantic.
	www.james-joyce-music.com /song02_lyrics.html (446 words)

	Ryan Clan News Nov 99
		That was the last the children saw of their father, a proud old man with tears in his eyes standing on the shores of Lough Derravaragh.
		The children flew northward towards the Straits of Moyle, where they settled on a rock, exhausted after the long flight.
		One morning Fionnuala awoke and knew their time on the Straits of Moyle was over.
	www.ryans.org /news1199.htm (3545 words)

	irish myths -The Transforamtion of the Children of Lir
		But the day came at last when the swans must leave the beautiful lake to fulfil the second period of their long exile on the Sea of Moyle.
		It was here, on the Sea of Moyle, they knew the very worst of loneliness, cold and freezing storms.
		Forbidden to land, their feathers froze to the rocks in the long winter nights, they were buffeted and often driven apart by storms.
	home.fiac.net /marshaw/lir.htm (968 words)

	Straits Times : Ocean swallowing Pacific islands
		Life has turned into a nightmare on Takuu, whose people have had little to do with the outside world and thus retained their culture.
		Ethnomusicologist Richard Moyle, who is writing the first ethnology of Takuu, says each adult on the island can sing more than 1,000 songs from memory.
		Mr Moyle fears they are doomed, but for the people themselves their fate is beyond comprehension.
	www.ecologyasia.com /news-archives/2001/dec-01/straitstimes.asia1.com.sg_cybernews_story_0,1870,91530,00.html (499 words)

	Who were the children of Lir?
		However Aoife also imposed a harsh sentence on the swan children; they were to spend the next 300 years on Loch Dairbhreach, then 300 years on Sruth na Maoile (or the Straits of Moyle between Scotland and Ireland) and the final 300 years at Irrus Domnann and Inis Gluaire.
		The sentence would be lifted when they heard the first bells of Christianity (when St. Patrick came to Ireland) and when a Man from the North lay with a Woman from the South.
		On the Sea of Moyle life was harsh for the Children of Lir.
	ksks.essortment.com /childoflir_rkfi.htm (1522 words)

	Walter Moyle: Constitution of the Roman State
		D'Alembert said of the work of Montesquieu on the Romans, that it could be called, 'Roman history for the use of philosophers and statesmen'.
		This title would be equally appropriate for the work of Walter Moyle, which we publish today.
		It is a thing worth noticing, that the English, a nation whose ancestors were overthrown by the Romans, are the first who have written philosophical reflexions, and given to Europe profound ideas about the Roman Empire.
	www.constitution.org /moyle/con_rom.htm (11698 words)

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		Three hundred years shall ye be upon the waters of Derryvaragh, and three hundred upon the Straits of Moyle between Erinn and Alba,[10] and three hundred in the seas by Erris and Inishglory, and then shall the enchantment have an end." [10] Scotland.
		By midnight the hurricane descended upon the Straits of Moyle, and the waves roared upon the coast with a deafening noise, and thunder bellowed from the sky, and lightning was all the light they had.
		And the four drew closely together and lamented aloud at that sight, for they knew that old times and things had passed away in Erinn, and they were lonely in a land of strangers, where no man lived who could recognise them when they came to their human shapes again.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/4/7/4/14749/14749-8.txt (17369 words)

	Meav's Silver Sea CD Review
		Legend has it that the melody was heard first by fishermen off the Blasket Islands, and Meav suggests in her notes that perhaps it was whale-song they heard, and I can certainly see why she thought of that.
		This one is based on the Children of Lir, the three sons and daughter who were cursed and changed into swans by their jealous stepmother.
		They spent 300 exiled years on the Straits of Moyle between Ireland and Scotland, and this is the daughter, Fionnula's lament.
	www.celticcafe.com /archive/Music/MEAV/Silver_Sea.htm (1223 words)

	Swans - the Children of Lir - Birding
		When her servants refused to kill the kids, Aeife used magic to turn the four into swans.
		In addition, she cursed them - they would live 300 years in Lake Derryvaragh, another 300 in the Straits of Moyle, and then 300 in Irros Domnann.
		The swans saw their father grow old and die, and when 300 years had passed, they migrated to the Straights of Moyle.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art10276.asp (414 words)

	The Children of Lir
		The first three hundred would be spent upon Lake Derravaragh; the second three hundred in the Straits of Moyle; and the third three hundred in the wild seas about Inish Glora, in the western ocean.
		The Straits of Moyle was a cold and unforgiving place, full of wind, spray, storms, and bitter cold.
		Many times, the children thought that their poor coat of feathers would not be enough to keep them alive under such harsh conditions, but survive they did, passing the long cold years by singing, and huddling together for warmth within each other's wings.
	www.fjordstone.com /twilight/childrenoflir.html (3486 words)

	Martial Men and Debateable Lands - Page 1 of 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Breaking of the Border, the Plantation of Ulster, and of North America which was authorised in 1606, and the changes in Scottish land law, were all part of the transition from feudalism to mercantilist capitalism.
		When the Scots crossed the Straits of Moyle, they left behind feudal obligations and clan loyalties and entered the world of rents and contracts.
		This increased the importance of the ‘Kirk’ as a centre of social life, focus of loyalty and source of identity.
	www.qub.ac.uk /schools/SchoolofAnthropologicalStudies/Research/MusicMakinginBelfast/Ulster-ScotsFolkOrchestra/WiderContexts/MartialMenandDebateableLands-Page1of6 (4106 words)

	Moyle Area
		The Moyle district (population 15,000) with its administrative headquarters in Ballycastle is situated on the North east corner of Northern Ireland.
		It includes 42 miles of the breathtakingly beautiful North Antrim coastline and derives its name from "The Straits of Moyle", this being the name for the North Channel between the Antrim coast and Scotland.
		This area is very popular with tourists and includes the three best known features of Northern Ireland: the Giant's Causeway, the Glens of Antrim and Rathlin Island.
	www.moyle-council.org /moylearea/moylearea.htm (361 words)

	Marconi Radio Group. MN0MRG -- Ballycastle, Northern Ireland
		The Moyle district (population 15,000) with its administrative headquarters in Ballycastle is situated on the North east corner of
		coastline and derives its name from "The Straits of Moyle", this being the name for the
		The main sources of income in the district are farming, tourism and a little light industry There is a distinct absence of any major industry due mainly to strict planning policy regulations which are in force because of the "Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty" which cover most of the Moyle district
	www.freewebs.com /mn0mrg/moylearea.htm (310 words)

	THE CHILDREN OF LIR: AN IRISH LEGEND
		He turned to look at his brothers and sister only to see that they had all been turned intot the most beautiful swans ever seen.
		He knew thousgh that the 300 years of the first phase had passed and that the next phase of the spell was about to begin.
		They flew over th land, hoping to find their father's fort, but it was now nothing more than ruins.
	www.irishtreats.com /Children-lir.htm (1192 words)

	The fate of the children of Lir
		But the spell still imposed a harsh sentence on the swan children.
		They were to spend 300 years on Lough Dairbhreach, 300 years in the Straits of Moyle and the final 300 years at Erris.
		They spell would only be broken when they heard the first bells of Christianity and when a King from the north marries a Princess from the south.When King Bodhbh found out what Aoife had done to the children of Lir, using a Druids rod he turned her into a "Witch of the air".
	www.howtoadvice.com /Preview/Jiyeqbb (600 words)

	Celtic Attic: Celts facts and fiction - Children of Lir
		Derravaragh, three hundred on the Straits of Moyle and three
		Their time on the Northern Straits of Moyle were not so
		They departed the cold straits and made their way towards
	www.celticattic.com /contact_us/the_celts/children_of_lir.htm (941 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland, by T. W. Rolleston, ...
		So there the swans continued, suffering cold and misery upon the tides of Moyle; and one while they would be upon the coast of Alba and another upon the coast of Erinn, but the waters they might not leave.
		Thus for a long time they suffered, till at length there came upon the Straits of Moyle a night of January so piercing cold that the like of it had never been felt.
		So they went forth again upon the Straits of Moyle, and the brine was grievously sharp and bitter to them, but they could not escape it nor shelter themselves from it.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/14749/14749-h/14749-h.htm (18123 words)

	The Children of Lir - www.ezboard.com
		This only will I grant you: that you shall still have human voices and therewill be no music in the world sweeter than yours.
		Many came to listen to their singing, for their songs brought joy to those in sorrow and lulled the sick to sleep.
		But when three hundred years were over, the swans rose suddenly and flew away to the Straits of Moyle that flow between Scotland and Ireland.
	p205.ezboard.com /fpagansrusfrm16.showMessage?topicID=45.topic (1222 words)

	The Children of Lir
		But as they played on the shore's edge, laughing and splashing, catching rainbows of mist and light between their fingers, she struck them with a rod of enchantment, and turned them into four white swans.
		"You will swim on this lake for three hundred years," she said, "then three hundred years on the narrow sea of Moyle, and three hundred years on the isles of the Western Sea.
		This only will I grant you: that you shall still have human voices and there will be no music in the world sweeter than yours.
	www.celticspirit.org /Lir.htm (1284 words)

	Literary Study and Firm Criticism - The Gold Scales
		Instead of killing the children she changed them into four white swans, and laid on them a curse:
		"Three hundred years you are to spend on the waters of Lake Derryvaragh, three hundred on the Straits of Moyle (between Ireland and Scotland), and three hundred on the Atlantic by Erris and Inishglory.
		The princess fled the place in horror, but the hermit prepared to baptise them at once, for the four old people were now about to die.
	oaks.nvg.org /ys2ra9.html (3889 words)

	travel article about Raithlin Island in Northern Ireland
		I chose for a perch the far side of a cow pasture where cliffs dropped sharply to the sea.
		The panoramic view outside my tent swept from the Northern Ireland coast, where Ballycastle's yellow lights flickered at dusk, across the bulk of Rathlin then beyond the far end of the island, over the chilly blue Straits of Moyle, to the dark spine of the Mull of Kintyre.
		For dinner provisions, I bought cans of beef in curry sauce at Mrs.
	www.fabuloustravel.com /globe/raithlin/raithlin.html (1080 words)

	Silent, Oh Moyle
		The servants refused and so Aoife transformed the children into white swans and laid a curse on them.
		They would spend three hundred years on the waters of Lake Derryvargah, three hundred on the Straits of Moyle (between Scotland and Ireland) and three hundred on the Atlantic by Erris and Inishglory.
		Only then, and when a "woman of the South mated with a man of the North" would the curse end.
	www.contemplator.com /ireland/moyle.html (299 words)

	Swansinging by Martin Baker
		The first 300 years was spent in peace beside Lake Derryvaragh in Westmeath.
		The next 300 years the children passed upon the Straits of Moyle between Ireland and Scotland.
		Finally, they removed to the Atlantic coast by Erris.
	www.seventhage.freeserve.co.uk /r13swans.html (5901 words)

	Children of Lir
		Lairgnen flies from the place in horror, but the hermit prepares to administer baptism at once, as death is rapidly approaching them.
		"Lay us in one grave," says Fionuala, "and lay Conn at my right hand and Fiachra at my left, and Hugh before my face, for there they were wont to be when i sheltered them many a winter night upon the seas of Moyle."
		And so it was done, and they went unto heaven; but the hermit, it is said, pined for them to the end of his earthly days.
	members.fortunecity.com /milliput/wwcol.html (823 words)

	Puget Sound Research Conference 2001
		Hake and Euphausiid Monitoring in the Strait of Georgia Using Hydroacoustics
		Mark Sekela, Stephanie Sylvestre, Gail Moyle, and Taina Tuominen
		Back to list of sessions of concurrent oral presentations
	www.psat.wa.gov /Publications/01_proceedings/sessions/sess_5b.htm (108 words)

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