"I didn’t know I was this geeky until I discovered the online world through my office’s 2400 baud modem back in ’93." Category Archives for Ireland
Dublin, 1961
Dublin in 1961. (Pictures were sent to me. Photographer unknown, trying to find out.) Continue reading
Dingle panorama
{click to enlarge} In summer, Dingle is a beehive of activity. Coach upon coach of tourists arrive, taking over the town and its 52 pubs. The only foreigners in Dingle this time of year were myself, an Italian travelling salesman … Continue reading
The Green Pool
Let’s map those 40 shades of green in images. I’ve started an Ireland group on Flickr. If you have pictures of Ireland you wouldn’t mind sharing with the world at large, join up.
Mrs Lynch’s Christmas pudding’s always the same
She makes her Christmas pudding in plastic containers, not like her mother, god rest her soul, who’d wrap the thing in cloth and let it hang and rock from her Singer sewing table. Is the recipe secret? ‘No, I’ve got … Continue reading
Dingle bells, dingle bells, dingle all the way…
‘s Not officially confirmed yet, but something cool is going down on December 15… I had to change around all my holiday plans for December and guess what… it fit right in with the schedule at work, so I was … Continue reading
Dublin diary (I)
‘Howyeh luv? Wanna come down to da beach wid me, look for crabs?’ They walk too fast, the pusher and his customer in their scummy nylon shell suits. Always in a hurry going nowhere fast. Hollow cheeks, dead eyes. Pieces … Continue reading
Causeway here we come
Getting psyched now. We’re booking a fly drive offer to Dublin through BBI Travel at 127 euro p.p. for the end of September and beginning of October. (My friend will be driving. I’ll bring my license, but I’m pretty sure … Continue reading
In Glencolmcille (III)
(part I) (part II) Seamus is a big elderly American of Irish descent. He is in level 2. Of course he takes the car to drive around the corner to go shopping. On the third day he has a puncture. … Continue reading
