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American in Ireland
Everyone in Ireland is "gutted" today
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by TheYank at
11/19/2009 8:58 AM EST
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The headline on the front of Irish Central earlier today - "We wuz robbed" - simply doesn't contain sufficient heat to describe the anger and the sense of injustice that everyone in Ireland is feeling today. It wasn't that "We wuz robbed," but rather we were torn open, our innards were ripped out and tossed on the ground. ... Read More » |
Aren't all Irish teens just like Americans now?
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by TheYank at
11/16/2009 3:05 PM EST
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I was surprised that fellow American Bridget English says that Americans in Ireland are still easily identifiable. Bridget says she was told that even if you ignore clothes are overlooked, Americans' teeth tells people where they're from before they speak. Why was I surprised? I guess I figured that Bridget's fellow ... Read More » |
It's beginning to smell a lot like Christmas
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by TheYank at
11/16/2009 10:03 AM EST
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The Christmas lights are going on all over Ireland now. No, not in people's homes, although the Irish Mail on Sunday carried a report yesterday about a Muslim Iraqi family who love Christmas and put their tree up early, very early, November 3 this year. But, for the most part the Christmas lights being turned on are in the ... Read More » |
President Obama should have been in Berlin
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by TheYank at
11/9/2009 3:21 PM EST
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I'm sitting in my living room here in Ireland where I just finished watching the ceremony from Berlin marking the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was a tremendous spectacle and a great occasion. There was only one aspect of the ceremony that struck a discordant note: the absence of President Obama. Where ... Read More » |
Dublin in the dark
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by TheYank at
11/7/2009 4:06 PM EST
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I spent a good chunk of my day in Dublin - where I rarely venture on the weekend - and now I'm back in the city, near the Custom House. Not really accomplishing. I was walking around for a while and now I'm drinking coffee while I type this. I had to be in Dublin this evening to run an errand. Rather than go right home, I ... Read More » |
Blown away by the north coast
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by TheYank at
11/4/2009 3:20 PM EST
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As I mentioned yesterday, we were up north last week. Just a day trip, which is possible now thanks to the vast improvement in the roads here. There was a time not that far back when a day trip to the north was such a bone-shaking, nerve-shattering experience that advertisements in the national papers advised people against ... Read More » |
Way up north, where the shoppin's good
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by TheYank at
11/3/2009 1:30 PM EST
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I was shopping 'up north' last week. That might not sound like a big deal, but it is something of an issue here. Now, just to get a few things straight - (a) no, I wasn't shopping alone; it's not my thing and (b) shopping was more of an incidental part of our journey north and not the main focus. Still, the weather was so ... Read More » |
Yesterday was April 15 in Ireland
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by TheYank at
11/1/2009 3:12 PM EST
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For some Irish people yesterday was the most frightening day of the year – the day when they finally finish filling in their annual tax returns and pay what they owe the taxman. In America the big day is April 15, but the Irish tax authorities allow an extra 6½ months and require that returns be filed and money ... Read More » |
Halloween - Irish invention, American export
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by TheYank at
10/27/2009 10:38 AM EDT
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Halloween was invented by the Irish, but when I first moved here it wasn't that big a deal. Not when compared with the Halloween I remembered as a kid in Queens & upstate New York. Back in 1995 I took my daughter out trick-or-treating for the first time and it was something of an eye-opener for me. We went to five or ... Read More » |
I doubt De Valera was a spy
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by TheYank at
10/26/2009 8:36 AM EDT
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I guess I should wait to read the book, but right now I'm very skeptical of the claims coming from historian John Turi. According to today's Irish Independent, Turi is a retired retired US naval officer and historian John Turi from Princeton, NJ. According to the article in the Independent Turi has a new book coming out in ... Read More » |
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