Articles tagged ‘Athlone’
Plan your visit to Ireland
By Seán | September 28th, 2007 |
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The only post you’ll ever need: this is your one-stop Irish travel guide!
So, after a year and almost a thousand posts on Ireland, I thought I’d put the site to the test and demonstrate how to use Irelandlogue.com to plan your visit to Ireland. What follows is a step-by-step process using the logue to plan [...]
Most popular blog entries
By Seán | September 25th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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, [...]
Irish Session rules
By Seán | September 20th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Since the first day I started Irelandlogue I have been blogging about Irish music sessions.
At least twice a week I attend a live Irish music session and post an mp3 and photo from the session. Regular readers of Irelandlogue.com will be familiar with The Shack, Sean’s Sunday session, Brideswell, Flannery’s, Shine’s, The Green Olive, [...]
Avast, ye scurvy dogs!
By Seán | September 19th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Yarrr! Today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Tis due to Dave Barry (sure I usedta be readin’ him when I was moored up stateside) that this day be brought to me attention.
This sort of absurdity rarely penetrates here in Ireland. Irish culture is already full to the brim with the absurd - [...]
Shack Session
By Seán | September 19th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Winter has finally shown herself. We had some lovely warm weather all the way up until Monday night when there was a sudden turn in the air - a crispness that wasn’t there the day before.
Maybe it was the chill, maybe it was the rain, but the Shack was fairly quiet even though I arrived [...]
Glendeer Pet Farm
By Seán | September 18th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
On Saturday we did something we’ve been meaning to do ever since the munchkin started pointing at furry four-footed creatures on the street and shouting, “DOGGIE!!!” we took her to the Glendeer Pet Farm, a child-oriented petting zoo just outside Athlone in County Roscommon.
The pet farm is one of the few in Ireland set up [...]
Sean’s Bar Sunday session
By Seán | September 17th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It was a very ill-advised course of action Saturday night.
Let’s just leave it to say that it involved my participation in a stag night and then a gig somewhere in town that migrated from behind the microphones into the back smoking area until it was so late the publican threatened to leave us locked [...]
Irelandlogue has a birthday
By Seán | September 16th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Hard to believe, but it’s been a year since I started writing the ‘logue.
847 posts later I have to say I can’t believe I’ve been doing this 2-5 times every day for 12 months. It’s been a lot of work juggling family, job, logue and music, but tremendously rewarding at the same time.
It [...]
Shack Session
By Seán | September 13th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
It was an usual session this week. For starters, wifey volunteered to join me on the evening. Secondly, a number of her co-workers joined us as well, including bawn, a very able performer.
A number of the usual crew were in attendance, including ze germanz and the sheriff. Jbanjo and a bodhran player I’d never seen [...]
Sean’s Sunday session
By Seán | September 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It will be the last session with beans for a coupla weeks in Sean’s Bar, the oldest pub in Ireland.
I pulled out the trusty point-and-shoot (which is dying a slow death) and began to curse when it refused to even turn on. Before chucking it in the bin I had the presence of mind to [...]
