I actually haven’t been here for a couple of days. Instead I’ve been being Irish around Ireland, gallivanting around the island to see a man […]

Read: Here I Amn’t, Here I Am »

‘Twas down by Christ-church that I first met with Annie,
A neat little girl - and not a bit shy
She told me her father, who came […]

Read: Easy and Slow »

This is an awful painting, though in my defence it’s not finished.
I post it here now because I referred to it in my recent post […]

Read: Chapelizod Stile »

For anyone who doesn’t know, yet strangely cares, I’ve prettied up my Twitter page. It’s a paintings thing, ’cause that’s what I do.
If it doesn’t […]

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Waking up on yesterday’s Irish morning I saw sunshine and reeled. In the shock sense, not the dancing sense.
Thrust into sunny happiness I rushed outside […]

Read: Deerfield, A Dublin Daytrip »

Last summer I had a long conversation with my fellow Dubliner, Damien Dempsey, for an article I was doing on his then brand new album […]

Read: Transcript of my Damien Dempsey Interview »

I have a question on terms about our currency in Ireland.
After close on a decade away in which the changeover to the Euro from […]

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Dan Regan, author of the Irish Fest blog, and brother to the mother of my son, has apologised and corrected his post that said he […]

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While eating an egg last week here in Ireland it occurred to me that it had never happened to me in America.
About 10 minutes earlier […]

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There are a lot of people in Ireland today, and I would be one of them, very puzzled by the decision of a Grand Jury […]

Read: The Shooting of AJ Hanlon »

While I continue my search for a home and/or a studio where I can resume my painting, you can have a look at the state […]

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I’m currently packing to leave Ireland’s sunny southeast today and head back to Dublin and broadband productivity.
But you knew all that if you were keeping […]

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Ever since my original little difference between Ireland and America of tennis balls, and its many follow-up posts direct from the streets of Kansas City, […]

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New Mexico: Changing Landscapes
Part 61 of the Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

It’s morning time and before setting […]

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Into New Mexico
Part 60 of the Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

The storm that had stopped me by […]

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Storm
Part 59 of the Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

Having cycled south right through the Panhandle of Texas, […]

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Pain in West Texas
Part 58 of the Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

This was one of those rare […]

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Lubbock, Texas
Part 57 of the Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

The next section of the journal was done […]

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For some time I’ve been meaning to put together a list of posts by other people that I’ve really enjoyed, but instead I think I’ll […]

Read: Post to Post #1 »

This is the day where every year, of the previous 9, somebody in the US has asked me how Irish people in Ireland celebrate the […]

Read: Frequently Asked Irish Question »