Getting off the American treadmill to live the Irish dream

So Harvey, enjoy your new adopted Country, don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.

koleary, learn some European history before you claim what European countries were and were not free. Amazing you Yanks are taught nothing in your schools.

Koleary, immigrants coming to Ireland are none of your business! When you come to Ireland, YOU are a foreigner! If you moved to Ireland YOU'D be an immigrant! Maybe you should put some effort into learning about the Native Americans etc instead of worrying about what happened here over 150 years ago. Ireland has moved on from then. We are not a catholic society anymore. Please, move on. Searlit, Im sure there are many more things we agree on! I LOVE argument and debate. I think its essential which is why I like this site plus I get to tell Americans who believe in leprechauns that they are full of nonsense!

Getting off the American treadmill that allowed this couple to accumulate enough wealth to live in a foreign country with no worries about financial woes, what a tough burden to escape.

This time I agree with you ciaradexy. Ha, ha. If you post on here long enough, it can happen.

The reason I don't like more immigrants coming to Ireland is that Ireland has not been a free country for even 100 years...unlike the other European countries. Can't you give the Irish people a chance to run their country by themselves for at least one century? Also, more immigrants to European countries just dilutes the culture. Will the children of the immigrants care about the famine, the discrimination against the Irish Catholics in their country, etc. And when I visit my ancestral homeland, I want to visit Ireland...not a country of hundreds of cultures. K. O'Leary

After my comment and reading your 'piece', seriously well written and making me long for another Holiday as last year's was, without losing my $ at O'Hare even b-4 I boarded the plane for Dublin and on to Galway.

Harvey: I'll pay a buck 26 to sleep in your closet.

"Rather than bemoaning that the coffee was terrible, we simply switched to good Irish tea. We came to enjoy the more important aspects of Irish life — an unyielding sense of humor even in the face of adversity, an appreciation for the physical beauty that naturally adorns the country, a love of music, dance and the arts generally, and the fabulous craig." I am so jealous! I would uproot my life in a heartbeat right now and live there for the very same reasons you mentioned above. Good for you!

Like the author of this piece,I have made several trips to Ireland and find it the most relaxing time I ever spend.Also like the author I found Adair to be the very best location for a relaxing as well as fun filled location.Adare Mannor was beyond description for golf,relaxation and fun times.The people of Adare are very warm and friendly and the night life in town is just right.Return trip already in the works.

Nice to see you can be condescending on both sides of the arlantic, you are and always will be the couple from Chicago.

''talking the craic''? Nice to see youve made up your own phrases.