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Cormac MacConnell - The West's Awake
Summertime Out and About
I’M on my summer meanders again as July takes its deep breaths and marches boldly into the 31 long days allocated to it by God and man. And the first real meander took me this morning to the opening of the Willie Clancy Summer School in Miltownmalbay
All in a Summer’s Week
He’d been stung around the throat during the capture of the swarm and was not in great form either. He looked at the apple trees in the garden and said there would not be any apples either come September.
Still at Home on Vacation
I AWOKE at the crack of dawn in West Cork a fortnight ago. We were near Clonakilty in the home of one of the Dutch Nation’s many friends en route to spend a week in the home of another friend in the Italian Alps.
A Batty Summer in Clare
WHAT is it about Co. Clare and bats? I know we are entering the silly season in this business, but a story popped up in front of me onscreen this morning in our Clare that amazed me in the light of an e-mail which had arrived minutes earlier from our
Handy Irish Holiday Tips
I THINK it is time again for my annual hints for first time visitors to our Emerald Isle. It is truly emerald of all shades in these venerable June days, truly beautiful in a gently enchanting way.
A Summertime Double
THE lazy, hazy, crazy days are here again in all their golden glory. They are especially crazy for me just now because my doppelganger Professor Mark Feinstein and his wife Carol are over for a few weeks.
Our Changing Irish Times
THE times they are a-changin’ . . . I parked my car in the carpark beside Galway City Cathedral last Saturday afternoon. It cost *4 to park for the day. You could not pay a lesser fee.
The Truth About Adam and Eve
SOMETHING serious, thought Father Ahern, as he saw big Straight Dillon coming up to the door of the parochial house under his wide-brimmed hat.
The Beauty of Irish Life
COUPLES love to get married in the little Carrygerry Chapel a few hundred yards down the road from the cottage. It is easy to see why, especially in Maytime of the blossoms. We were married there ourselves nearly a decade ago now.
The Beauty of an Irish Spring
THE longer I live the more I am touched to the heart by the exquisite manner in which the Irish year unfolds itself during the last days of April and the first week or May.