{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 showing his fine suits to a fisherman in the harbour and ...

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.

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 it on a piece of paper,' she says, with serious intent. ...

'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 given that whole week off. Yes, people, I'm making another trip to ...

'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 of H in a brown paper bag change owner while they scurry ...

Don't get me wrong, the (Irish) country side is very pretty, but I really am a city girl. Dublin just puts a smile on my face. I feel much more at home here now that I was traipsing around sheep dung in the Gaeltacht. Though I did pick up a ...

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 I won't go anywhere near the driver's seat.) I've been to ...

"That muss be da biggest pig in da world." "If he took her to bed, he'd break 'er." "Maths was easy, Irish was broootal!" "Too much Edam, Cazza." "Hush now, cause I AM in bed." "You wouldn't see that now in Amsterdam, you wouldn't." "Mammy, lookit da floying pig!" "Dere holidays were a noightmare, cause my Da ...

(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. One of the locals helps him out. In the shop I ...

(part I) In the local pub, Biddy's, the drinks are poured by an elderly bartender. His arms look like they have been broken and wrongly set, stiff and twisted. Here we meet the other students. A lot of attention goes out to Michael Collins from Limerick, a Chicago resident. He looks ...