Tuesday night, yours truly had an interesting experience, one of many on this Fulbright gravy train. Andrea and I were invited to a reception put on by the US-Irish Fulbright Commission in honour of the US Ambassador to Ireland James … Continue reading
Bloody hell, but my back is killing me. The paucity of posting in the last couple of weeks can be directly blamed on my mother, who, having come to visit us in merry old…er…um, Ireland, spent half the time monopolizing … Continue reading
The short short short version, before fucking Blogger eats it… Wednesday I spent some time down at Trinity College Dublin. I was there for two reason. One was to use their library to find some books that DCU’s library doesn’t … Continue reading
Andrea has complained today that I don’t actually write anything for my blog, that instead I just link other things. I don’t think she fully grasps what the damn thing is for in the wider blogosphere sense, but her basic … Continue reading
While re-reading a section of Joseph J. Lee’s Ireland, 1912-1985: Politics and Society today, I came across this snippet from his retrospective analysis of the career of Eamon de Valera (the founder of the Irish Fianna Fail party and one … Continue reading