My new novel. It starts with the award-winning, BBC broadcast prologue, "The Orphan and the Mob", and continues with Jude's quest for True Love in Tipperary, Galway, the Aran Islands, and Dublin... Love, death, arson, philosophy, and sex. Starring Jude, an orphan who looks the spit of Leonardo DiCaprio. Except for having two penises. Which makes True Love... complicated.
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Hiya Niki, I sent you some Ireland suggestions via Gmail, but may well do another version for my blog, as I've been asked a few times for tips.
But I'm not the ideal person to ask, as even when I lived in Ireland, I never went anywhere. When in Galway, I lived in the triangle formed by The Living Room (pub, great cappuccino, great staff), the Front Door (pub, great pint, great staff), and Charlie Byrne's Bookshop (great books, great staff).
A mysterious Bermuda Triangle, where time disappears. And an area of less than a thousand square yards.
Actually, it was more of a square, or rhomboid, because Neachtains was definitely at one corner of it. (Great pub. Great snugs. Grumpy staff, but once you've known them for about forty years they loosen up a bit.)
Otherwise, best traditional music is upstairs in the Crane. Don't be surprised if half the players are Scandinavian or Japanese. All traditional musics are talking to, and learning from, each other now.
But I'm not the ideal person to ask, as even when I lived in Ireland, I never went anywhere. When in Galway, I lived in the triangle formed by The Living Room (pub, great cappuccino, great staff), the Front Door (pub, great pint, great staff), and Charlie Byrne's Bookshop (great books, great staff).
A mysterious Bermuda Triangle, where time disappears. And an area of less than a thousand square yards.
Actually, it was more of a square, or rhomboid, because Neachtains was definitely at one corner of it. (Great pub. Great snugs. Grumpy staff, but once you've known them for about forty years they loosen up a bit.)
Otherwise, best traditional music is upstairs in the Crane. Don't be surprised if half the players are Scandinavian or Japanese. All traditional musics are talking to, and learning from, each other now.
January 16, 2008 |
Julian Gough
Julian Gough
In the event that I were to make it to Ireland in the summer, any suggestions as for places to go? I loathe being a tourist so... none of that busines, right? You know, heart of Ireland and all that jazz.
That myspace chicka,
Niki