Island View, Castletownbere?

bronxbomber · Veteran Member

Island View, Castletownbere?

Michele Erdvig · Host

Bronx,

Nope, I haven't stayed there. However, I do have it bookmarked for a future visit. You MUST visit McCarthy's Bar while there. In fact, read the book of the same name before you leave. You will love it.

Michele

Itallian Chauffeur · Moderator

Michele -- Some of your Great Mind must have rubbed off, as I gave bronx practically the same advice over on Fodors, when I suggested your site biggrin

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The little red x's SHOULD be 'CLICKable' biggrin

Bob

-- Edited by Itallian Chauffeur on Saturday 16th of January 2010 11:48:59 AM

bronxbomber · Veteran Member

Hackney's right. I loved that book. Everyone visiting Ireland should read it. And since we're speaking of books, next on my list is Hungry Hill, a novel by Daphne du Maurier, and An Irish Diary by Heinrich Boll. BTW, Hack, thanks for telling me about this place.

murphy · Guru

Since we are talking about books, (besides McCarthy's Bar) I also read: Pint-Sized Ireland by Evan McHugh, and Round Ireland with a fridge by Tony Hawks before our NW Ireland Trip last August. All three books were a hoot, and would suggest them for anyone contemplating an Ireland vacation. I try to round up 3-4 good Ireland books to help with the long wait and anticipation before a trip! I am also reading Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O'Sullivan. It is all about Blasket Island life off the west coast of Ireland, and quite interesting. Dan

bronxbomber · Veteran Member

Dan, I've ordered the first two of your recommendations from the library. As I'm not going to the Blaskets, I'll skip your third one.

Last year I thoroughly enjoyed The Course of Irish History by T.W. Moody and F.X. Martin, and Thomas Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization, which is a good one to read before going out to the Dingle oratories.

After forty-five years of starting and stopping, I finally read Ulysses. I learned that the only way to do it is to read the Gabler edition, along with Ulysses Annotated by Don Gifford. So you're going back and forth between the two books! It took a long time (I'm retired), but it was worth being in the mind of a genius, day after day.

I'm looking at some poetry anthologies. In my first pass through Yeats, I found him to be difficult. Last year, our literary-minded son drove us to Coole Park, near Gort, County Galway, to Lady Gregory's magnificent old estate, with its famous yew tree and carved initials of Yeats, Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, and many others. What I will always remember from there is the unique and pervasive aroma of wild garlic.

-- Edited by bronxbomber on Saturday 16th of January 2010 11:43:29 PM

Michele Erdvig · Host

Bronx,

Ohhh, I love Coole Park in the spring when the bluebells and wild garlic is blooming. I can smell it now. Like a really good Italian restaurant. Unfortunately parts of the estate were under water during the recent flooding.

Michele