Ireland Miscellanea
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You're Invited to the BootsnAll Holiday Party
The beer in Portland, Oregon might not be as famous as the beer in Ireland, but we like to think that it measures up in terms of quality. In fact, we’re so proud of it that we’re going to be serving Portland beer - lots of it - at the annual BootsnAll holiday party this December, and we think you should come!
WHAT: BootsnAll Holiday Party
WHEN: Saturday, December 1, 2007 from 7pm until 11pm
WHERE: Lucky Labrador Beer Hall, 1945 NW Quimby St., Portland OR 97209
Our annual holiday party is a chance for us to say “thank you” to the independent travelers …
Date: October 25th, 2007 |
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One year of Irelandlogue
It’s been a year in the ‘logue, folks and, as I promised in an earlier post, I thought it would be a good idea to have a look over the year of blogging that’s been. What follows is a review some of the highlights of the past year’s logue-ing.
Over the last year I’ve spent every day blogging about interesting Irish things. Now that irelandlogue has been in existence for a year, it’s become an interesting Irish thing in itself. It’s a great thing: I’ve had the good fortune to have lived a fascinating year and to have had a blog to reflect it in.
Date: September 22nd, 2007 |
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Ireland's dismal European soccer cup situation
Try again in 2010.
It rhymes. It also pretty much sums up the situation for Irish world cup soccer.
While the pundits lambast the coach and more than a few Irish players nurse serious injuries, tonight’s loss to the Czech Republic pretty much means that Ireland will not be playing in the 2008 European cup.
It just doesn’t seem that long ago that I awoke around 6am in a Munich hostel with just one thing on my mind. Closing the door behind us, wifey and I traipsed across the still slumbering German city. At that early hour of the morning the sun had yet to slip her fingers down past the rooftops and it was through a lingering chill between the buildings that we approached a nondescript wooden door and descended down a flight of stairs.
Date: September 12th, 2007 |
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The rugby world cup
It’s one of those things I’ve never really understood. You meet these hard-core Irish guys who live in the country, listen to trad, have family with questionable political affiliations and carry a general disdain for anything anglo . . . and then you discover that they absolutely love rugby or soccer. We’re talking Man U stickers on their car/president of their local Liverpool supporters club kind of love.
Tres bizarre.
Speaking of, er, IN French, I sat down with the grumpy frenchman yesterday to watch the inaugural match of the rugby world cup between France and Argentina. Thanks to his apt, if steeped in irony, commentary I picked up enough to understand and, to my surprise, enjoy the match.
Date: September 8th, 2007 |
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Irish traveler video
I’ve done a few posts on Irish travelers. Here’s a video post they’ve done themselves:
Date: August 30th, 2007 |
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Most popular blog entries
For the past year I have woken up every morning wondering what I would write about that day. When I leave the house, I carry a PDA, digital camera and mp3 recorder. When I walk into a shop, stop for lunch or even have a conversation I’m always thinking, “is this blog-able?”
So, a year later, it’s quite interesting to see which of those blog entries I’ve committed to the web have become most popular.
The most popular entry ever on Irelandlogue.com is . . .
Date: September 25th, 2007 |
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Ireland Travel TV Shows To Go
When you can’t actually be traveling to Ireland, the next best thing can be watching a travel TV program about Ireland. But instead of being stuck watching the show that’s on TV right now, why not take control and see only the shows you want to? With the new GlobeTrekkerChannel you can do just that. And what’s more, you can watch them on your own schedule, too.
There’s already more than 350 hours of top-notch travel programming available from the GlobeTrekkerChannel, with shows you know and love like Globe Trekker, Planet Food and …
Date: September 19th, 2007 |
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Irish bare-knuckle boxing match
Yep - this is what the fuss is all about.
Date: September 10th, 2007 |
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The Irish National Tayto
Everyone knows that Ireland is famous for her potatoes. What you may not know is the reverence in which Irish people hold their potato crisps.
Specifically, their Tayto crisps.
So ingrained into Irish culture is the Tayto brand potato crisp that Irish people often refer to all potato crisps, be they Doritos or Pringles, as “Taytos.” There is a good reason.
When wifey and I first moved to Ireland we met some friends in a pub and when they found that we hadn’t tried their “Irish potato crisps” they immediately went to the bar and returned with two foil bags, placed them proudly on the table and waited for us to sample and react.
Date: September 8th, 2007 |
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Sushi in Ireland, a dó!
(that’s “two” in Irish, by the way)
What you see there is the proud new table setting last Wednesday before we all tucked into some scrumptious sushi. The cause of the swanky table setting is the arrival of sushi place settings in our local Lidl (just €7!). Ever since our first attempt at sushi we have been heartened and make the attempt at least once a month.
Date: August 19th, 2007 |
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