During Day 3 a slight detour after lunch took us to the ruins of Rosserk Friary on the edge of the estuary of the river Moy, famed for its salmon. We braved about 5km of a road just wide enough…
Sligo Day 3
Highlight of the day was travelling west up to Ceide Fields via Ballina, a journey of about an hour and a half from Sligo. There we met Mairin (a colleague of Pip’s) and Red who helped to show us around…
Sligo Day 2 but wait, there’s more!
There really was a lot to this day so I have split it into two blog posts and this one contains the overflow. The second lough that we drove alongside was Glencar. There is a noted waterfall some way in…
Sligo Day 2
“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree…” Alright then, off you go. Are you sure you really want to? Just look at it! A bit of a let-down, really, after reading that evocative poem. W B Yeats…
Sligo Day 1
This year, St Patrick’s Day (or Paddy’s Day as the locals affectionately call it) was on a Thursday and since it is a national holiday many people, us included, took the Friday off as well to make a long weekend…
Hugh Lane Gallery
We were at the Hugh Lane Gallery on Sunday for a concert (see Other tab, 13 Mar) and we couldn’t help but be struck by the large numbers of very fine art works they hold. This is a place that…
A Day in the Life of…
It’s been a VERY long time since I’ve blogged by myself. Trawling back, it seems to have been April 2015! Partly this is because I’ve been very busy, and partly because Bruce is (a) wittier and (b) way better at…
Hibernation nearly over
I see it is two months since the last blog entry. We have not ventured far because of the cold wet weather and have remained for the most part hunkered down in Dublin. It hasn’t been a bad winter as…
Return to Kerry
Pip’s US family, Janet and Bob, Jerry and Mary, visited us at the end of August for about a week. After a couple of days in Dublin we hired a minibus and went to Kerry to impress them with Ireland’s…
Culture Night 2015
I sometimes think that everyone in Ireland is a performer – singing, playing an instrument, dancing, telling stories… Culture Night is an outworking of this in a once-a-year event across the whole country (in fact, the whole island, including the…