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Raise a Pint To Ye

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 17, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Is there really anything else that needs to be said? Not really. Old guy here to the left pretty much does Ireland proud and St. Patrick’s here at O’Fringe’s is as much a celebration of age as it is the Irish in me. Here’s to the days of yore, to the sounds of cock and [...]

Fibber Magees Shuts Down

By jelewis8 ⋅ July 9, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Another pub has shut its doors because of the dreadful smoking ban in Ireland. Fibber Magees pub is owned by Ronan Lawless. Despite his name, he has decided to fight the ban within the law. I say “Good luck!” to him. He’ll definitely need it, for it looks like the law has pretty solid support [...]

Bloomsday

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 16, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Today is ReJoyce Dublin day, AKA Bloomsday. This day in 1904 Stephen Daedalus and Leopold Bloom each journeyed through Dublin’s streets in James Joyce’s Ulysses, possibly the western world’s most highly acclaimed novel. To celebrate, I extend a hearty Irish invitation to share in the reading of Ulysses and enjoy a pint of the Black [...]

The Ol’ Dream

By jelewis8 ⋅ May 25, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve been, at times, desperate enough to consider forging paperwork to prove that one of my grandparents was Irish. Why would I even remotely consider doing something like that? Gaining Irish citizenship, of course! Believe me, there’s more to life than being American. Being Irish would fulfill much of my dream quotient…I guess the only [...]

The Counterfeit Monets

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 13, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

I had been traveling the western coastline of Ireland for nearly a day; I grew hungry and my body craved some time off the road, so I made for Connemara. It was then nearly eight in the evening, but the land was still swathed with the light from the day. The town was shrouded ethereally [...]

Colour and Place

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 1, 2003 ⋅ One comment

As I never got the chance to post this in Ireland, I’m doing so now. It is a reflection upon colour and how it gave me pause, which in turn led to speculation about what ‘place’ was. Here are my observances, recorded on the side of the road, somewhere between Galway and Doolin. It finally [...]

The Final Two Days

By jelewis8 ⋅ May 23, 2003 ⋅ 2 comments

My stay in Galway was punctuated only by the short wait for the bus to Doolin, leaving at 10:30am. The ride looked to be about an hour, and then I could be off again in my car. Almost as soon as we started off I knew I was in trouble. The driver was quite crazy, [...]

Stranded!! Day 2

By jelewis8 ⋅ May 21, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m writing again from Dublin, a night before my departure back to the states. I’ll make a note now, that though I’m returning at this point, I am going to try desperately to come back, perhaps even as early as late summer. I do love it enough to stay (in fact, I found a lovely [...]

Stranded!! Day 3

By jelewis8 ⋅ May 21, 2003 ⋅ 3 comments

My third and final day upon Inisheer was to be fairly uneventful. A group of us had been stranded there (I had been there the longest), and were now itching to move on. We all met down on the dock at 9:30am, when the ferry was reported to be leaving. We waited. The ferryman did [...]

Ireland the Great

By jelewis8 ⋅ May 20, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

I got a lot of comments about my “negativity” over things here in Ireland. I suppose that my post, coming as it did, seemed to have a rather poor outlook, and unfortunately gave a wrong impression of my experiences here. I promised to write about what I love about Ireland, which I noted is a [...]

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