Anne has a fascinating excerpt from Conor Cruise O'Brien's memoir. It has to do with Maud Gonne. Fascinating.
And speaking of Maud Gonne ... Emily has posted one of my favorite Yeats poems.
Limerick contest (and truly terrifying St. Patrick's Day image) over at Michele's.
Alex has photos!
On a more serious note - PLEASE go and read Broom of Anger. Powerful, man - I check in with her daily.
Dan has some photos. Of milky-skinned Irish bathing beauties ... and also a poem by the man of a million aliases - Flann O'Brien.
Mitch says: "Kiss me, I'm Norwegian and Scottish!"
Top 10 Irish journeys. No Aran Islands?? Nice to see Puckoon by Spike Milligan there. Irish-guy in the pub at Glendalough raved about this book, and recently sent it to me, because he could not stand that I had not read it yet. All of his emails included the sentence: "Have you read Puckoon yet?" Got this link from the indispensable Slugger O'Toole, who have been all over the McCartney sister thing, by the way.
This is another fun piece I found on Slugger: Wetting the shamrock. A very fun piece.
And of course ... once again ...
I must link to this.
Posted by sheilaThe one photo over at Alex's - the one with the guy riding on the rural road on his bike? I wonder if that road has one of those car plummeting off a cliff signs?
Posted by: Emily at March 17, 2005 5:48 PMThanks Sheila.. We're trying to be as indispensible as possible.. :)
I think you'll like this short piece by Terry Eagleton, whose work is included in that list of journeys. I blogged it when it first appeared, but our search function is down at the minute.. So, I went to see this man about a donkey...
Posted by: peteb at March 17, 2005 5:55 PMEmily - hahaha
"Warning: You could drown if you drove directly into the bay!!"
Posted by: red at March 17, 2005 6:20 PM