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COUNTY CORK, Ireland??Since Ireland is one of the most Catholic countries in the world and I’ve missed one mass too many, it’s probably a good time for confession. I’m only 25 percent Irish. Now, don’t worry, it’s not a mortal sin—I have never tried to pass myself off as anything more. But the combination of my full-Irish grandmother and my preoccupation with Irish culture is enough to convince everyone that I’m at least half Irish...
...group started with a traditional “Hello Boston” greeting, then wasted no time to set the tempo of the night with a fast paced jig to warm up the crowd. Playing up Ireland??s greatest export—whiskey—the next jig was purely inspired by this “water of life.” The band claimed to be singing about whiskey because of their Lenten pact of abstinence but that was quickly dispelled by fiddler Ciarn Tourishís cry of “Yeah right...
Hood, the archivist at the Church of Ireland??s Representative Church Body Library in Dublin, discusses her tale of Ireland??s heraldic authority. 7 p.m. The Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass...
...Galway, Ireland??At 8 a.m. a few Sundays ago, I heard a knock on my door. Having hit the pillow at 4 a.m. after clubbing in town, I moaned, turned over and tried to ignore the fact that it was time to get up. I heard the steady sound of rain on the window—something I hear nearly ever morning here...
After much loud self-debate about whether to actually get up, I joined my roommates, who had thoughtfully woken me, for an eight-hour bus tour of Western Ireland??s most stunning geographical features; the Burren, a dark group of hills rising up from the bay, and the Cliffs of Moher—the sheerest, most spectacular set of cliffs I’ve ever seen...