I think that I forgot to mention the thing that shocked me the most about Clonmacnoise, and that is the fact that the name is

Nothing much to report from today. Galway is a wonderful city, but, alas, we had to leave that one too soon as well. During our

This entry will be lacking in details, historical tidbits, and, sadly, anything remotely resembling a sense of humor. It’s currently 11:30 p.m., and I’ve just

By the way, pictures from Killarney are here. There are only two of them. Killarney wasn’t all that inspiring, I guess. So anyway, Quin Abbey

Camera’s fixed, so I celebrated by taking thirty pictures at Quin Abbey near Ennis. None of them have been transferred to the computer so my

During a tour we took of Charles Fort yesterday, the guide mentioned that a young man had been beaten to death somewhere in Ireland last

…It must be Cork. Or Waterford. Or Cashel. Or… I dunno. I’m sort of losing track. Was it just the other day that we wandered

The last time I was in Ireland, in 2001, it seemed to me that Parliament had passed a law requiring that every single pub and

One of the brilliant ideas we had before coming to Ireland was to buy a supercheap laptop and throw Linux on to it so that

We’re currently hanging out in Kilkenny, in County Kilkenny. We finished up our stay in Trim yesterday morning and headed south. Along the way we