Posts Tagged ‘ Galway ’

Ireland’s economy may be in a shambles, but its tongue remains silver and there is no better way to savour its cadences than to attend a few of the astonishing number of literary festivals dedicated to the country’s signature art. From Joyce’s Dublin to “Yeats Country” in Sligo and Frank O’Connor’s Cork, Ireland every...Read more »

Despite all this country’s changes, places endure in the West of Ireland that still do a beautiful dance to the music of their own sense of time and place. We just returned from a too brief trip to Mayo and Connemara and were transfixed by stops in Cong, Westport, and Lenaune Bridge, just back...Read more »

Cork couple Richie Hewitt and Laura Buke have been reporting problems with visitations from the other world lately in their northside house off the Blarney Road. Things started with the usual fairy mischief — keys and socks vanishing, cushions misplaced on the couch, Carpenters‘ songs taking over their iPod, hot water running out, unfair...Read more »