Tag: Galway

• The Silent Songs of the Burrens and the Rebel Songs of Galway

  I stood at the edge of the famous Cliffs of Moher.  Just a short drive from Shannon Airport, this site is one of the first stops for tourists.  The last time I stood at this edge of Ireland where the Atlantic Ocean pounds silently far below us, at the base of rock faces that can…

  patrickjegan

  June 13, 2015

  Blogging, Creativity, Everyday Events, Family, History, Ireland, Love, Memories, Nature, non-fiction, Objects of Beauty, Real Personal History, Travels

  father and son, Galway, Galway Bay, Irish music, Limestone, memories, Salthill, the Burren

• May The Sun Rise To Meet Him

    On Wednesday, my son, Brian will step off the red-eye flight from JFK and the sun will rise to meet him.  I will have my son, my boy, my only boy with me while we tour our ancestral island with my wife (on her first visit, too). It’s been thirty years since I’ve been…

  patrickjegan

  June 6, 2015

  Blogging, Creativity, England, Fables & Folklore, Family, History, Ireland, Memories, Real Personal History, Travels

  1916 Irish Uprising, Ben Bulbeen, Bobby Sands, Cliffs of Moher, Galway, hunger strikes, Ireland, Irish bards, Irish pubs, Kevin Barry, potcheen, Rock of Cashel, Sligo, Yeats

• Dance Like A Wave Of The Sea

  I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree… –W. B. Yeats Three decades have passed since I last walked the streets of Dublin, Galway and Sligo.  A great many things have changed in those years.  And, a great many haven’t.  The smell of peat-fires in Dublin on a December night, the blasts of…

  patrickjegan

  May 16, 2015

  Blogging, Creativity, England, Family, Ireland, Love, Memories, Real Personal History, Travels

  Cotswolds, Dorset, Dublin, England, Galway, Guiness, Ireland, Sligo, traveling with your son, traveling with your wife