This morning fifty or sixty people gathered on the stone bridge over the Corrib River for the unveiling of a bronze plaque with a poem by Moya Cannon. This is the sixth year that a poetry plaque has been installed around Galway during the Cuirt Festival of Literature. The first was of a poem by [...]
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Who doesn’t want a flat belly? … and with beach season upon, it’s time to shed that winter weight. Do it without giving up good food with The Flat Belly Diet. Turkey with Green Mole prepared by Dani Well, first off I didn’t find organic turkey cutlets but chicken is a good substitute as far [...]
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The Cuirt Festival opened Tuesday evening at the Galway City Museum beside the River Corrib with remarks by Padraic Breathnach, Director of the festival, the Deputy Mayor, members of the Arts Council and the main speaker, novelist Roddy Doyle. It’s always a great evening of wine and talk and the weather was beautiful. In fact, [...]
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So as I was watching the Today show this morning I see the story about Pheobe Prince, the 15 year-old who committed suicide after being bullied at school. The six kids who taunted her, aged 16-18, are being charged with felonies, which I can’t disagree with. One girl changed her facebook status to something close [...]
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Just an FYI… we got our Mary Jane’s Hash Brownies, Hot Pot, and Other Marijuana Munchies Cookbook today, of all days. Happy 4/20.
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a good place on any given day whether you are feeling good or standard or bad you can sit in this place among the docks and pick yourself out a spider crab for $1.20 a pound fresh and live they will cook it for you and you take a wooden hammer and a piece of [...]
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Philip MacDermott’s Sherry Trifle After a skyped recipe query from his daughter Cláir of Nantucket, my host in Malahide, on the sea just north of Dublin, Philip MacDermott, decided he should whip up a sherry trifle for his sister’s visit. It was only after it was finished that I realized I should have photographed the [...]
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Word from across the pond… Dick, who’s person is located in Ireland right now, sent us this poem to post. Thanks Dick. The Song Of Wandering Aengus I WENT out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; [...]
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Sunday afternoon. A George Swede haiku from The Haiku Anthology. a sigh from her then one from me– two pages turn
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