Why did I not spend every minute of this weekend studying for it?!
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Dancing on the beach in Buncranna, Northern Ireland with my best friend. (Frank Sinatra added to set the tone.)
Lady Liberty at Dublin Castle. This statue of Lady Liberty is unusual - she is not blindfolded, her sword is drawn, she seems to hold the scales with disgust, and her back is turned away from the city and toward the castle. Not a very symbolically proper depiction of Lady Liberty. Many jokes are made about this.
“Siodh-Dune” by munira_zen on Flickr.
I’m currently on the 2 hour bus ride to Dublin and normally I’d be ptfo by now but I already ended up doing that last night with an unintentional 10-hour nap. Lucky for me, this bus has free wifi! Unreal.
Photos of Dublin from 50 years ago compared with photos from today. Some gorgeous shots of old Dublin, love how the Elverys store hasn’t moved an inch.
St. Margaret Beach, Ireland. 7th July, 2009. By Astrid Friis
Country Cottage (by ColleenM)
Lyrics, the arrangement, the atmosphere….just beautiful.
Submissions for Volume 1 are now closed. In the next few days, we’ll be announcing a pre-order campaign for Volume 1, which is due out at the end of July.
For Volume 1, we have writers from as far as Ireland and India and Iowa represented. Some are new and never-before-published, and some are veterans. And we also have a special interview and new writing from Chicago novelist and playwright, Joe Meno. Good news all around.
In the pub with an IWP friend and one of my housemates. That is not my hat that I am wearing.
#Ireland (Taken with instagram)
(by emeybee)
The Drombeg Stone Circle (also known as The Druid’s Altar) consists of seventeen closely spaced stones spanning 9 m (29 ft) in diameter, of which 13 survive.
The site was excavated and restored in 1958. During this process a pot was found in the centre of the circle, containing the cremated remains of a young adolescent wrapped with thick cloth. Carbon dating of samples taken from the site suggest that it was active c. 945 - 830 BC. The pot was buried near the centre of the circle along with 80 other smashed sherds, four bits of shale and a collection of sweepings from a pyre.
Green is far more than a color to us. It’s a symbol for everything that we are, and everything that we’ve been through.
When I was three years old, my family took a vacation to Northern Ireland for my Nana and Papa’s 50th wedding anniversary. I honestly don’t remember much about this trip but it does hold my first and favorite memory. I remember sitting at the top of the stairs at my Nana and Papa’s while everyone else was in their rooms just doing their own thing. I was trying incessantly to tie my shoes for the very first time and kept failing. Then, for the first time in my life, in a foreign country no less, I tied my shoes. I cannot express how happy I was in that moment. I screamed at the top of my lungs for everyone to come out. They all raced out of their rooms to see what was going on. When I showed my family my freshly tied shoes, my moms first response was “They are on the wrong feet”. I was so devastated because I was convinced that I would never be able to tie them again. And that is exactly what I told my mom. Thus began my life long flaw of no confidence in myself whatsoever. Why this is my favorite memory, I have no idea. But to this day, it is. The end
I THINK YOU WILL FIND THIS RELEVANT TO OUR INTERESTS
That movie I planned to love but instead sort of hated
LOOK FAMILIAR?
BECAUSE IT SHOULD
The Rock of Dunamase
Which we visited
TWICE
(Because the tour guide screwed up
we were supposed to go to the Cliffs of Moher
but all’s well
because I got better photos the second time around
So if they thought they could sneak this past me they were wrong
It’s embedded in my brain through two sets of photo edits)
(such liars. The movie put it next to that train station and called it the Rock of Cuchulainn or something. LIKE NO ONE WOULD NOTICE)
What I am saying, Hannah
is
that
our feet have trod the same dirt as Matthew Goode.
Dappled Light (by Child of Danu)
Kilmalkeadar Church (by cubanjunky)
Keith’s new Facebook picture #1 :)
“If you believe in what you’re doing whether it’s shit or a masterpiece, the important thing is you yourself are proud of it.”
