Ireland 2--0 pg 104

Ireland 2009 pg 104


all is well this morning June 1 my last bank Holiday in Eireann.
the good sisterS did not put me out to wander the streets this evening and will
Best for me to run upON the 5.00.
I stll have to be sure can get to the irport.
I should be Ok there.
So I am good to go.

Went over to theCapuchin Center and Bow St and Joan the nurse was onthe srving line a gave me my great Irish chicken with boiled potatos and greens and a nice, I think it was apple and canned great fruit pudding.
VVery good.
The Irish make a pudding with a fruit mixed in it and the fruit in the bowl and the puddign atop.
A lot like our american jello with fruit.
It is very good.
I told Joan she should get the golden nurse award for her work there.
the men have great respect for her and I read inthe papers she was planing a walk from Killdair to Dublin for the homesess.
A very dedicted Irish lady.
All the Capuchins need are good food well cooked.
They believe in life these Fransicans.

Yesterday took the Luas ride down to the south terminal at Tamlach not Tallaght.
I have no idea where the English get the 'T's from and the final 'T'.
Misleads the entire tourist population as to the word and its meaning.
The Tamlach .
The Tan was a name of agroup of military.
An army The Tan was the army.

I fogot what Tam is exactly but it is in the dictionarly
Tamlach would be the little Tam on the lake of the Tam.
[Tam means dream] Dream by the loch]
There is a hospital there Tamlach.
So it may be a healing place for the wounded of the Army.

I will let uyou know.

Right now everything is packed but the cloths I have on ,my nighty and this journal to ride the Luas and the 41 bus up to the Airport.

Here in Dublin 2 city buses go up the 41 the Drumcondra and the 16A through every place on earth.
But the fare is 2.40 as compared to the Airlink 6 Euros charge.
Some of the big hostels like Paddys Tours are advertising 15 Euros a night free airport trip.
Which is well worth it for students and seniors alike.

I dont heve the 15 Euros for Paddy too but he has tours all over Ireland including the north to Giants Causway and seems reasonalbe but some with luxury stops and luxury foods and luxury hotels which I guess his clients want.
Its his busniss.
The Burran tour from Galway was 16 Euros and the tours from Cork to Kerry are about the same.
The Dublin s 'Hop on Hop off 'is good for 24 hours.
13 Europs to the seniors and the students which is fair.
It goes all over the famous city.

Phoenex Park, Kilmainham, Glassnevin cemetary.
The Castle the Butonic Gardens and on and on.
I think it goes down to the Grand Canal as well.

So Dublin is not that expensive for a stay of a week at either one of th eGardner St hostels or one of the Rick Steves off site hotels 39 to 59 a night and teh Bord Fialte is well schooled in the tours and the sites in every district of the country.
Usually with in reach of the public transit points and full like the American rest stops ont he Parkways, of booklets and places to see, things to do, and good food and local events.

Irelands M roads ,straight ugly things spitting up the lovely countryside into squares. UGH!

The rest is in better shape and along road with the confusing timpealls and the road to Dublin, the road to Derry, the road to Cork ,the road to Bealfeast and Limeric.
And the roads running off of them to lesser known villages and towns.

I dont thihk there is a classification of a settlement here in Ireland that could be called a village anymore, a Clachan -group of mostly houses and cottages off the roadside.

There are vestages of camps like Armagh .
And vestages of farm communities built up on a straight sort of line at a crossroad now the timpeall roundabouts where the roads converge.

These crossroads ar now subdivisions of great areas of land and now having factoys ,petrol stations ,and so forth running about the road to the timpeall and than another brink on the usually 4 roads converging at the roundabout.

You must remember as you go round you are leanng to the left not the right as otherwise you will miss your road ,screw up the flowing traffic who will mightliy let you know how stupid you are.
Laying on the horn screaming out the windows.
It is the Italian Influence but I know not if that is the latent relgion or some ancient cross breeding.
They drive like the Italians.
I did not try it.

The best driveres are the big semis.
Mostly youngish men.
The bus drivers mostly youngish men 27-37.
Family types and those zipping by occasionally in well heeled motor home rigs I take to be ex Travelers who had the state of the art long ago inthe little red horse drasawn rigs.
No childs peer out their motor homes rins.
Sedate 40 ish style people and sometimes a teen or 2 in the dining seat sernely being driven along by their in charge parents.

Not like American they do not seem to be using these Caravan rigs to earn a livng.
No bards. No trailers of goods tacked on headed for the flea markets.

They seem to congreagate in these rigs at various national sporting events and races and are not free flowing with information as are the farmers and street Irish.
By the street Irish I mean those well settled in a community who know everyone and everthing about the place and are very happy to find out just who you are ,why you are there, where you are staying and anything else of interest.
Most of them claim to have kin in America.
I think most of them have kin in the defense forces myself.
However they are good helpful and well directed people.

I get sick of the where are you from from both Irish groups and tourist alike.
I have given this state inthe midwest more free publicity than allthe big governors trips to promote businessa nd investment.
Most of the Iriris have never heard of the middle ameican places.
They can get Chicago and thats as close to their old gold field of Calif or the big ranches settled by railroad Irish relatives gone of and waked some century or more ago.

The Indians leave you alone.
They could care less where you are from only that you are in their store to buy somethoing expensive.
They sell a lot of 60 cent sausages and French pastry and rolls and sanwich meats and newspapers.

The Irish buying the newpapers.
The French students buying the French breads and the sandwich meats and the homeless Irish and immigrants buying the saugage and potatos.

These potato wedges are well worth their weight in gold and very tasty the way the Irish slice and cook them.
They cannnot be found in American as they are a diffent type of spud those grown on the island being used.
A product as yet not discovered on export.

The tourists go to the restarant and the Pubs with signs out for 8.95 breakfast or only 10.95 lunch and God only know where the government employees go for the diner hour, half 12 till 2 when everything is closed.
The Irish Life building off Abby sports a government cafeteria but I think you have to buy a chair there to sit down and the toilets are fettered with a coin box on the mall floor.

You have to remember that if you expect to get anything done and of course the Dial and the Taoisech are totally off limits.

I do believe Parliament in London is accessible as is the US Congress but the Dail is much to precious to be exposed to their possibly violent constituants, or disgruntled rate payers or noisy and nosy americans.
It is none of their business what important work goes on in the Dail.
It is only their business to collect money and funds for projects as the EU NDP programs as well .

The nest must be secure from other birds.
Fly by and local birds who have their own nest and the Gardai ,as it protects justice and the courts ,protects the Dail and th general elected government from association with their own people or any others.

However they do put out about 50 pounds of paper booklets about their accomplishements which outline the proceedures to access anything connected with the government.

This little island that has suffered so much death and tragedy and subjection over self govenment over centuries of a thousnd years has now after that glorios Rising and the Proclamation and the Civli War over self govenment manged to exclude the elite from the People of Ireland and in the same way the former Viceroys of London excluded themselves from the big house vs the school vs the parliament and fron door of the privledged.

The British system prevails politically, justice wise, ecomomical land use, language use, An Uisce, police wise ,and the American investment prevails in the corporate structue of American and the food brand men of American and the layout of communites on the new made glass structures . All now 'To Let'.

I will go off tomorrow if I make it to the Busras and can get my ticket down to the Europort at Rosslaree on the tip of Leinster throu the Wicklow Mountains I hope, and along the Irish Sea and St Georges Channel and than back up I hope ,dirctly to the airport terminal at 9 where I hope ,can get thew security ,spend the long hours of the night and board the flight to JFK.

And so the 'Slainte ort agus ferr go Eireann 2009' .

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009