When I die Dublin will be written in my heart — James Joyce.  William Butler Yeats. Oscar Wilde. James Joyce. GBS (he’s so cool I only have to use his initials). Samuel Beckett. Jonathan Swift. Irish writers are the second reason why I love this place. I didn’t grow up in a rainy city whose dampness would nudge …
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I Finally Find My Leprechaun
 Near my hotel at St. Stephen’s Green park:  there is a sculpture entitled Famine by Edward Delaney:  It is one of a score of statues you can find throughout the city to memorialize the Great Famine (An Gorta Mór) that took place between 1845-1852, brought on by potato blight and resulted in some million lives lost from …
Everyone’s Irish On March 17
 So on my way to the Guinness Storehouse, which I might add I’m pretty excited to visit, I walk through the campus of Trinity College…  one of the world’s leading universities:  It is also referred to as the University of Dublin and some of its more celebrated alumni are Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, scores of leading …
Great Way To Be Alive
 This whole technology thing is not quite there for me yet. While I’m slow-dancing my way through Dublin with you in these entries I’ve actually crossed a few borders already. But blogging in real time is not as easy as I’d hoped. I’m not wired enough yet that I can always blog from the road. Tack on the travel …
Fashion Police Back In The Day
 Throughout the State Apartments, where my tour in Dublin Castle begins, you can see the symbol of the lyre (or harp) as above. You will find it everywhere in Ireland from the euro coin…  to all things Guinness:  The State Apartments were formerly quarters used by the Viceregal Court. Today it plays host to State functions:  …