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Kippers with Mustard Butter and Guinness Bread
Kippers & Mustard Butter…..I remember as a child going with my mother to buy kippers on the Belfast’s Newtownards Road. At the time, kippers were one of the few fish the average working class family could afford. I’ve always loved them for their rich, very distinctive flavour. Kipper is the word for the process in […]
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Duck Eggs!
To me, duck eggs were never one of those trendy ingredients – people have been eating them for years. In my childhood days, my Uncle Jack used to bring them to the house as a treat for use every now and again.Uncle Jack was a true original –a working class man from near the Woodstock […]
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Sure I’m Only Codding Ya!
Sure I’m Only Codding Ya! Famous Irish Sayings… who knows what they mean? Banjaxed – Begorrah – Cogging – Do Lally – Flahed – Lapsy pa -Loo-lah – Loopers Manky – Skitting – Smithereens – Thing-a-ma-bob – Yoke – Me dazza
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The Flying Ducks Spring Tour Montreal 2017
Did ice hockey originate from hurling in Ireland? This topic has fuelled numerous heated debates throughout the years with a widely held belief that hurling influenced the creation of the game of ice hockey. Imagine then that The Republic of Ireland is the only European county without a permanent ice rink. Given this it does […]
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“Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!” Yeats
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin on June 13, 1865. With Lady Gregory and others, he founded the Irish Literary Theatre, from which developed the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1896. His poetry includes Mosada (Dublin, Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1886); The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (London, Kegan Paul, 1889) Crossways, 1889; The […]
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was born in Westland Row, Dublin on October 16th, 1854 to an eminent surgeon, William Wilde and the famous nationalist poet, Lady Jane Wilde, known as Speranza (her Selected Poems were published in Dublin in 1900). He settled in London in 1879. In 1882 he embarked on a lecture tour of the United […]
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“I saw a sign that said ‘Drink Canada Dry’. So I did.” Behan
Brendan Behan was born in Dublin on 9 February 1923. He grew up speaking English but became fluent in Gaelic in prison. His father, painter by trade, was also an Irish republican. The Behan household was as a result steeped in Irish history, literature and song. As a member of Fianna Éireann, the youth wing […]
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Niagara Falls Goes Green!
Minister Coveney & Ambassador Kelly visited Niagara Falls with Tourism Ireland’s Canadian Country Manager Dana Welsh on the weekend. Minister Simon Coveney flicks the switch so to speak… as Niagara Falls prepare for St Patrick’s Day this Friday. Housing minister Simon Coveney is in Canada at the moment as part of the ‘Promote Ireland’ programme […]
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Tourism Ireland wishes the world a Happy St Patrick’s Day
New Tourism Ireland film celebrates the greenest day of the year and invites the world to visit the island of Ireland Tourism Ireland has unveiled a new online film for St Patrick’s Day 2017, to encourage prospective holidaymakers to come and visit Ireland this year. The 60-second film includes wonderful footage shot around the island […]
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The Real Story of St. Patrick.
The Real Story of St. Patrick by Mark E Fisher. As I researched my historical novel, The Bonfires of Beltane, I realized what a tale the life of St. Patrick presents and how few people know it. Are you ready to hear the real story of St. Patrick? Born to Wealth and Privilege Patrick was […]