An American girl in Dublin
by Annie TannerWhere the bread is brown, the sky is grey, the hills are green and the craic is mighty.
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An American girl in Dublin for March 2013
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Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 05:37 AM
The bureaucracy, it never ends!
Visiting the Dublin's Natural History Museum and discovering Donegal marine collector Maude Delap
What a woman. What a museum!
Getting into a fitness routine while unemployed in Dublin and running to see the sights of Ireland
(Photo: MyCharity.ie)
Back home in Boston, my mom is training to run Rás na hÉireann USA, a really fun, local Irish-American 5K race. Every year the race fills to capacity, and in mid-March (obviously), streets close down and are filled with rivers of shamrocks and leprechauns and flags. I ran it years ago – to date, the only 5K I’ve run – and it was so much fun. The medals that the race organizers gave out at the end of it were Celtic knot-covered bottle openers on a long green ribbon, and all the local Irish pubs were free for an hour for the runners. Too bad I wasn’t yet 21 at the time.
Read more: How I fell in love with Ireland and finally moved there
