Irish Stories That Shouldn’t Exist
Posted by: Eolaí on December 11th, 2007
At the moment I’m not in Ireland; I’m in England working temporarily so I don’t have a whole lot to say. Well I do of […]
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Foods in Ireland Enjoyed the Most
Posted by: Eolaí on November 29th, 2007
Last night I had Steak & Kidney Pie for dinner. The night before, Fish & Chips.
Last week I had Shepherd’s Pie, and also Bacon & […]
News From An Irish Paper
Posted by: Eolaí on November 14th, 2007
For the first time in over a year, I bought a paper.
The Irish Times is 1.70 euro which at today’s rates of exchange is […]
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Arriving into Ireland by Air - Photos
Posted by: Eolaí on November 13th, 2007
So Dublin Airport’s Pier D offically opened yesterday.
And Like the Taoiseach I was at the airport myself. But I was at the prefab […]
Pier D in Dublin Airport
Posted by: Eolaí on November 13th, 2007
Pier D in Dublin Airport opened yesterday. Officially. The Taoiseach’s the one that done it.
But Pier D has really been open for 2 weeks. I […]
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To Dublin Airport
Posted by: Eolaí on November 9th, 2007
Yesterday I posted live from a bus in London, but to get there I had to leave Dublin.
Here’s what I wrote at Dublin airport:
The thing […]
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Doing Your Business - Literally
Posted by: Eolaí on November 5th, 2007
I’ve seen a few of these signs around Dublin since I returned and I have a fondness for the words employed.
Indeed this sign might be […]
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Irish Murals
Posted by: Eolaí on November 2nd, 2007
The last job I did in the weeks before emigrating to America in 1999, was to paint 3 murals in an apartment in Dublin’s city […]
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The October Holiday
Posted by: Eolaí on October 29th, 2007
Oh, America, I forgot to tell you - it’s a holiday today in Ireland. The Dublin Marathon finished a while ago with its fastest winning […]
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Dr Quirkey’s Good Time Emporium
Posted by: Eolaí on October 26th, 2007
In my teens in Dublin Barney’s or the Pierott Club, before it was converted into a superpub, were my amusement haunts.
Or if I wanted to […]
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The Seagull Has Landed
Posted by: Eolaí on October 25th, 2007
OK. Yes.
Personal effects from Kansas City have now been delivered, unloaded, and put into storage in Dublin where I won’t be seeing them again […]
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Giving Up
Posted by: Eolaí on October 19th, 2007
In America I wore two items of footwear. Trekking boots in deepest winter, and maybe a couple of months either side, and in summer sandals.
Sometimes […]
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Like Clockwork
Posted by: Eolaí on October 18th, 2007
Update on moving to Ireland from America.
The Irish Customs, thanks to the Gardaí, now believes I am really here and the container of my personal […]
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Is It Cold or Warm?
Posted by: Eolaí on October 15th, 2007
Yesterday I awoke to a horrible blue sky. A perfect blue sky.
No clouds anywhere. It went on for hours before we got the comfort […]
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You’re Grand
Posted by: Eolaí on October 12th, 2007
I knew this was coming of course but still, your first time is special.
It being only five minutes since I’m back living in Ireland I’m […]
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Proof of That American Life.
Posted by: Eolaí on October 11th, 2007
Am off to push more paperwork around. My boxes of personal effects arrived in Dublin from Kansas City yesterday.
But I’m still working on getting them […]
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Driving Around Derry
Posted by: Eolaí on October 11th, 2007
A few days ago I was in County Derry, and while the bucketing rain of the early morning roundabout journey there via Belfast was exhilarating, […]
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RSI, PPS, SSN and NINO
Posted by: Eolaí on October 10th, 2007
I never became a citizen of the US when I lived there. Because I was already a member of another club that gave me enough […]
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Grand Canal Dublin - Photos
Posted by: Eolaí on October 9th, 2007
Of the 2 canals which almost define Dublin’s city centre, it is the one to the south, the Grand Canal, that I’m most familiar with […]
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Grey Sky Over Dublin West
Posted by: Eolaí on October 8th, 2007
Although I have a habit of painting skies a roaring yellow, pink, or green, and of posting photos with skies of blue, in reality the […]
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