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The Battle of Clontarf Heritage Trail

History
A couple of weeks ago I set out on a coastal run little suspecting that it would be paved with the storied bones of...
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Would You Like to Go to Phoenix Park?

History
Thunder and lightning is no larkWhen Dublin City is in the dark.So if you have any money go up to the parkAnd view the...
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Me and You and SARS-CoV-2: A Year in Review

History
Historians will look back at 2020 with the same fascination as arborists looking at one of those tree-ring anomalies that signal something cataclysmic—a wildfire,...
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Running Away from Newtownards

History
We've been having an unsettled week here in Northern Ireland. The house we booked for December turned out to have an intractable internet problem...
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Picturing the Coastal Path

Travel
For the past few weeks we've been doing a lot of walking around the town of Bangor (N.I.) and its attendant bays. One of...
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Walking to the Shop in Bangor, NI

Travel
For a couple of weeks now we've been in the seaside town of Bangor, Northern Ireland. The winter weather here is not infrequently 'manky',...
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Old-Timey Travel for the Holiday Deprived

Travel
Exotic vacations are not easy to come by right now. Even if a vaccine has been announced, it will be a few months yet...
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Rounding the Ards Peninsula

Running
This week we moved to an apartment by the sea in Bangor, Northern Ireland (i.e. not Wales or Maine). The first thing we noticed...
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MacNeice in Ireland: A Prism of Delight & Pain

History
Until recently, I knew three things about Louis MacNeice (1907-1963): that he was from Ireland, that he was friends with Auden and that he...
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The DeLorean in Dunmurry

History
I’ve been wondering about the DeLorean for a couple of months because this space-aged car of stainless steel played a big (albeit brief) part...
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Risking a Trip to Titanic Belfast

History
It seems kind of weird that Belfast would capitalize on its links to a terrible shipping disaster, but that’s what it has gone and...
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Walls and Peace in Belfast

History
Yesterday we went on a taxi tour of the murals of Belfast. Our guide was clearly a tough customer. About fifty but wiry and spry,...
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