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Galway City to Mt. Brandon: My Cycle down the Wild Atlantic Way
I finished exams on May 4, spent a week viewing rooms in Dublin–I will be moving there at the end of the month to work on a natural resource valuation project at ESRI–and then waited impatiently for the Galway bike shop … Continue reading
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Tagged county clare, County Galway, County Kerry, cycling, Dingle, Dingle Peninsula, Friendship, Touring, west coast, Wild Atlantic Way
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A Basic Guide to Irish Idioms
Last week I was reminded in a rather humorous way of the differences between the Irish and American dialects of English. I was in Lahinch in Co. Clare and needed a way of getting back to Galway, so I posted … Continue reading
West Coast, Best Coast
It is 7am on a Saturday, and the sleepiness in Galway is infectious. Most students have gone home for the weekend, and those who haven’t have yet to stir from the warmth of their abodes. Resisting the temptation to follow … Continue reading
Posted in class of 2016, Irish University, National University of Ireland Galway, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Natural Resources, Travels on the Island, Uncategorized
Tagged aileen's, claremont mckenna college, Cliffs of Moher, county clare, Galway bay, graduate fellowship, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, National University of Ireland Galway, surfing, surfing in Ireland, the burren, the great outdoors, west coast
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“Slagging,” authenticity, and Irish hospitality
An acquaintance of mine, upon learning that I would be living in Ireland for a year, encouraged me to keep a journal of observations about the nation’s culture and institutions—a sort of Toqueville-esqe Democracy in Ireland, as he put it. … Continue reading