In preparation for my impending trip to the Emerald Isle I am trying to immerse myself in all things Irish, and, as the trip came together very last-minute I wasn't left the time for some long-term study or prolonged build-up of materials, instead I'm doing as much as I can as fast as I can. Like the night before an exam.
Modern technology, it turns out, is the perfect tool for this sort of high-speed, last-minute, cultural skimming.
So, I've changed my homepage from google.com to google.ie, following random twitter feeds published by anyone within two degrees of longitude of Limerick (oconlan), subscribed to a number of blogs authored by Dubliners (like Eclectic Micks) and non-Dubliners as well (culch.ie)
[Which is where I heard this cover of The Beatles Come Together which I had never heard before.]
I've also been creating new Pandora stations seeded with Irish bands, specifically The Dubliners, and The Young Dubliners, where I found this, hilarious, song:
I'm going to read the collected works of James Joyce tomorrow.
-t
2 comments:
Tom, thanks for reading. Drop me a mail and maybe we can drag you out for a pint while you're over here.
contact (at) culch (dot) ie
Are you in Ireland now? Or are you going for Dan Goldin Day in November? I'm confused.
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