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It’s a kind of tradition for the PSU program at UL for the faculty member to prepare a turkey for her American students over the holiday. UL does provide a free Thanksgiving lunch all day for their American students, but our students like the idea of a more intimate, ‘family-style’ celebration with their peers and [...]

After we left St. Paul’s Cathedral, Greg and I headed down the embankment to the Tower of London. We arrived at the ticket booth at around 3:15 to discover the attraction closed at 5:30 AND tickets cost 16.50 BP per person–our most expensive outing yet. We decided to go for it anyway; we were so [...]

Greg and I went to London over Halloween this year while he was visiting me in Ireland. We didn’t plan for it to be Halloween; things just worked out that way. My students at UL told me this was probably a good thing; apparently–like every other holiday, it seems–Halloween is big at UL. Students prank [...]

Greg flew over to Ireland for a visit in late October, and this was his first trans-Atlantic flight. One of the big things we discussed before I left for Ireland was what we were going to do on his visit: did he want to explore his first European country, or did he want to take [...]

First of all, I am not a drama queen. But.
Things just happen to me, I swear.
So Greg arrived in Ireland the morning of October 24th. He crashed from his jet lag on Friday, and we spent Saturday, in traditional Irish style–in the rain–at the weekly Milk Market where he fell in love with cheese and [...]

For those of you (you brave and happy few) who have been anxiously waiting for a blog update, my apologies. As the number of photos saved on my hard drive keeps growing, I decided I needed to look for another alternative for storage. Which led me to flickr.com. My friend Cathie used flckr for her [...]

Because Limerick is not exactly a tourist town, it is rather difficult to plan organized activities for visitors like bus tours. However, in some of my snooping for my mother’s visit I found two options: one through the Irish Rail system which offered a bus tour of Bunratty Castle, the Burren, and the famous Cliffs [...]

So, my mother flew into Ireland on Friday October 3 for a nine day visit. She’s visited me on many of my UK trips before: she visited me at the end of my first trip to England in 1992; we went to England and Scotland together in 1994; and she visited me in England again [...]

Last night, the director of the International Studies office took me to see a talk by Michael Colgan, director of the now touring ‘definitive’ production of Samuel Beckett’s existential play, Waiting for Godot. The GATE Theater has been active for 80 years, and to celebrate their anniversary, the company is doing 40 Irish performances of [...]

On Saturday mornings, Limerick city holds what is still called “The Milk Market” on Denmark Street, right up the road from St. Michael’s Church and O’Connell Street, the busiest strip in the city. It is a traditional farmer’s market with produce from organic farmers, artisan cheese mongers, bread makers, chocolate makers, and other food [...]