On a recent visit to D.C., my family and I went exploring in Alexandria, Virginia.
By a combination of happy chance and my perpetual habit of directing our travels based primarily on hole-in-the-wall restaurant ratings, we stumbled upon a charming Irish eatery called Eamonn's a Dublin Chipper.
Named after Dublin native Meshelle Armstrong's son Eamonn, this 20-seat hole-in-the-wall is a little piece of living history.
Roddy Doyle
First Sentence: - Tha' was a great few days.
Back of the book:
Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, and set the world to rights. They talk about their wives, their kids, their football teams and - this being Ireland in 2011-12 - the euro crisis, the presidential election, the Queen's visit.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL IRELAND has presented more than 18,000 signatures calling for equal access to healthcare based on income to Leinster House today.
The petition which was organised by Amnesty International Ireland as part of its Right to Health campaign, which holds that everyone in Ireland has the right to health – and that the country committed to this when it became party to the International Covenant of…
Defining a culture, or a language, particularly as a badge of identity, serves the purposes of domination and emancipation equally well. The question is: what gets lost or excluded in the process?
Joyce worked on Finnegans Wake from 1923 to 1939, publishing parts of it as he went along. From the start, he acknowledged that its seemingly nonsensical language needed a lot of explaining.
A luxury five-star hotel and golf resort in Co Fermanagh is emerging as a potential location for next year’s G8 summit of world leaders, senior official sources have intimated.
It is the British government’s turn in 2013 to host the gathering of the leaders of eight of the world’s major economies, and the Lough Erne hotel and golf resort is being seriously considered as the venue, it emerged yesterday.
Wednesday was pretty much all occupied with driving to Dingle. We stopped off at a few spots, but the only thing/area that was interesting or noteworthy was the Poulnabrone Dolmen. Dolmens are apparently standing stones (particularly ones that are part of small burial sites which i can't remember the name of). This dolmen was just two standing sines with one across the top, set within view of a windy regional road though the Burren.
Count the sheep........ and the hobbits maybe
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Me gusta Dublin mucho. Great vibe, friendly people (except for the nasty vegetable vendor on Moore Street who did not let me pick my own tomatoes), and lots of pubs and bars.
Getting out to suburbia was also worth spending time and money on. Howth offered seals swimming around in the port scouting for fish, an endless range of restaurants with fish and lobster (if only I could justify spending €40 of my travel budget on a dish) and beautiful trails along cliffs with waves smashing against them.
One Mayo business will scoop a price worth €7,000 in a new competition awarding organisations who use Irish.
Gnó Mhaigh Eo announced the competition prize, which includes advertising for the winning business with the Mayo Advertiser and Midwest Radio, design and printing services with Cashin Print, a mentoring course with the Mayo County Enterprise Board and an Irish language course.
My love-hate relationship with Ryanair.
What I feel for this carrier can be defined as a relationship of love and hate. Love because it is one of the cheapest airlines when you traveling to any country in Europe and around. You only have to click once with the mouse and print your ticket and done.
This is the part I love.
Legally resident non-EEA nationals who have entered the State with the intention of residing in Ireland for a period of more than three months must register with their local immigration registration officer. An immigration certificate of registration (GNIB Registration Card) is issued by the Garda National Immigration Bureau to a non-EEA national who so registers.
A fee of €300 is charged in respect of each immigration certificate of registration issued to a non-EEA national with effect from 19 November 2012.
I know it is a funny time to be starting to talk about the winter solstice, but I do not want it to interfere with Christmas.
New Grange is a very old and fascinating place in its own right, situated near to the Boyne river in Co. Meath, Ireland. No one knows who actually built it, but it is older than the Pyramids in Egypt.
Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today: Savita Halappanavar is the perfect test of Ireland’s rigid anti-abortion law (it remains: almost never, no matter what).
There was no possibility of her 17-week fetus surviving; delaying termination risked it killing the mother through septicemia.
But doctors at the hospital in Galway, western Ireland, stood firm even though the 31-year-old Indian woman pleaded with them.
My hands embrace the steaming cup. Liquid comfort in the form of a hot cup of tea mixed to perfection.
Outside it rains, without raining.
The air is visible. Tangible. A fine mist hangs suspended; covering all who would venture into her midst.
Steam rises in front of me and I stay.
Soon the fire will crackle in the iron stove; warming a home already warm with full hearts.
This was another one of those ambitious trips I planned while in Ireland this summer (read more of the Ireland Chronicles Here & Here & Here & Here & Here & Here), and by hook or by crook I was going it get it all done!
I love the north coast of Ireland but rarely opt to drive in that direction when taking trips around the country.
In a salutary reminder of just how valuable radio waves are these days, Ireland's mobile networks have shattered expectations for the country's 4G spectrum auction haul. Having projected a win of €170m ($216m), the actual total turned out to be five times as much: €855m ($1.1bn).
With €481.7m going into the Irish government's coffers by the end of this year, that's a pretty timely Christmas present for a country whose economy remains somewhat shaky these days.
I'm not bypassing Thanksgiving, but for some reason I'm in a very Christmas mood this morning when it comes to inspiration. While surfing around the internet this morning checking out Christmas related videos I came across this beautiful looking piece for Vodaphone Ireland.
The character design is beautiful, and the animation and 3D set design is really outstanding. Directed by Nexus Productions FX Goby, and created by Grey London this spot tells the story of a young reindeer coming home for Christmas.
On Sunday I went to the Titanic quarter of Belfast to see the Titanic Exhibit. It is located right alongside the River Lagan and there is a lot of industry in that part of Belfast. “The Docks” as it is known to locals, is where a lot of small businesses are located, as well as industries involved with Harland and Wolf Shipyards.
Mysterious Adare Manor is a rare example of a Calendar House, with 365 stained-glass windows and 52 chimneys. There are also gargoyles and carvings throughout that are quite extraordinary. (And a little spooky.)
Background? The Quins were one of the few families of true Gaelic origin in the Irish peerage. Thady Quin, born in 1645, first settled in Adare. In 1720, Valentine Quin built the first Adare Manor by the River Maigue.
