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By Seán | September 25th, 2007 |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... [Read this entry]
One year of Irelandlogue
By Seán | September 22nd, 2007 |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... [Read this entry]
Sex in Ireland - Part 2
By Seán | August 26th, 2007 |This is the second in a two-part article on sex in Ireland. Read the first Sex in Ireland article here.
Let’s get right down to it.
*insert 70’s wah-wah guitar... [Read this entry]
Sex in Ireland - Part 1
By Seán | August 23rd, 2007 |Things sure have changed in the aul emerald isle since the celtic tiger came along. The chaste masses of churchgoing Irish are now having unprotected sex out of wedlock at... [Read this entry]
On being Irish
By Seán | July 30th, 2007 |I was reading a newspaper article in the Westmeath Independent the other week that stated, “More than one in seven of Athlone population is now non-Irish.”
In the article it... [Read this entry]
Fog on the Shannon
By Seán | May 7th, 2007 |I mentioned the magical dawn mist on the River Shannon a few posts ago, and here is the video I captured. The music I used is a live recording from... [Read this entry]
Irish slang - Bye bye bye . . .
By Seán | February 19th, 2007 |Begorrah! Top of the morning!
Yes, two phrases you may have heard on Darby O’Gill and the Little People but that you will never actually hear spoken in Ireland. Most... [Read this entry]
The Wren Boys
By Seán | December 26th, 2006 |It was the evening of the day after our first Christmas in Ireland when the phone rang.
“Seán,”it was the voice of hacky, a local musician and good friend of... [Read this entry]
Irish slang - the Gasping
By Seán | November 27th, 2006 |So you think you’ve got a handle on the English language. So ya think you’ll take a holiday (that’s vacation to you, Mr & Mrs USA) to Ireland and understand... [Read this entry]
Bad pint/Good pint - rules for finding the perfect pint in Ireland
By Seán | November 19th, 2006 |This is something that is of grave and serious concern in Ireland: the quality of one’s pint.
Arguments are started, families have been split and lives have been formed around... [Read this entry]
