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The F**K of the Irish
I’d been warned. A friend had traveled to Ireland a few years back. “I got black lung,” he told me, with typical hyperbole. The pubs billowed with cigarette smoke, he said, burnishing the walls with a...
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Steps of a Mythic Journey on Researching a Family’s Irish Roots…
I’ll be travelling to Ireland as part of an Ireland Tourism initiative called The Gathering. I will be researching my family roots before I go and while I’m there, and walking the same earth my...
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Connecting the Dots Between Canada and Ireland
This year, I will be Going home to Ireland as part of a massive tourism initiative called The Gathering 2013. In the late 1790s, rebellion against British occupation was in the air in Ireland,...
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Eating Oysters: From Canada To Ireland
My search for the world’s best — and most elusive — oyster “The thing you need to know about oysters is that there is more than one species,” John Petcoff, proprietor of Oyster Boy in Toronto tells...
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The Gathering & Researching Your Geneology In Ireland
As I wrote this post in Dublin, I was eating a crisp apple that came from an orchard on the Blackwater Castle estate in Castletownroche, Ireland. It was perhaps the best apple I have ever eaten —...
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Ireland, A Journey: Wexford to Cork & Beyond…
It was the next day that I drove from Wexford to neighbouring Cork, and to the port of Cobh, where there is a large museum, The Cobh Heritage Centre, on the dock to recreate and honour the emigrant...
View ArticleHmmm: Now, What If The Beatles Were Irish?
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View ArticleHappy St. Patrick’s Day To All Our Irish Friends!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all of our Irish friends around the world. I absolutely loved this photo although I won’t be drinking beer today. Instead, I have been invited to a Whiskey & Oyster...
View ArticleGreen Ireland: From Guinness to Castles
Guinness in a Dublin Pub Photo Courtesy of Oscar Rodríguez Martínez A stone’s throw, or rather a short train ride from Dublin, sits Malahide Castle on its 250 acres of greenery. The expanse of lawn,...
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Honoring Gaelic on this St. Patty’s Day
There are many things that are synonymous with Saint Patrick’s Day, the color green, shamrocks, parades, pints of Guinness but one thing that is rarely alluded to is Gaelic and its history, the...
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