Ireland
Music Travel Monday ANNOUNCEMENT from VERA MARIE: Kerry Dexter’s blog, Music Road is a finalist in the 2012 Bloggies. You can go to the Bloggies page and vote for Kerry as the BEST Music blog on the Internet. Voting closes in mid February, so do not delay. Destination: Romance Music: Lover’s Well by Matt and [...]
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Culture Travel Tuesday Destination: Ireland Museum: Derrynane House By Dr. Jessica Voigts Exploring History at Derrynane House, County Kerry, Ireland Imagine Ireland in a time of great change, both political and religious. There was great social inequality as well as religious persecution. In times like these, great men arise. And indeed, the story of Daniel [...]
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Destination: Ireland Book: My Lady Judge: A Mystery of Medieval Ireland by Cora Harrison (2007) The Burren of Ireland fascinated me when we traveled through County Clare. Long, flat tables of gray stone stretch toward the sea. Cracks and ridges and deep fissures make walking across the limestone ground an adventure. Lovely little wild flowers [...]
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Destination: Northern Ireland Book Review: Northern Ireland: An Old Castle Standing on a Ford: One Yank’s Life in an Almost Peaceful Belfast (2010) by Caroline Oceana Ryan A GUEST POST by Kerry Dexter, Music editor at Wandering Educators.com Caroline Oceana Ryan is an American poet, playwright and travel writer who in 2000 left her life [...]
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Destination: Ireland Movie: The Secret of Kells (2009 Europe; 2010 on DVD and BluRay) A GUEST POST by Jane Louise Boursaw Print PDF
Destination: Ireland and Scotland A GUEST POST by Jessie Vogts Jessie writes: For our upcoming trip to Ireland and Scotland, I contacted several of my favorite travel writers and asked them for their top tips. Here are Favorite Books about Ireland and Scotland. Print PDF
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Book: Galway Bay (2009)by Mary Pat Kelly, Grand Central Publishing A GUEST POST by Kerry Dexter “We didn’t all die. Some of us escaped, one reaching back for the next… we saved ourselves…” Print PDF
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Destination: Ireland, Oklahoma Movie: Far & Away, Directed by Ron Howard Stars Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise look so young in this 1992 film. The story takes a snooty rich girl and a poor peasant lad from Ireland, where they are escaping what was known as the land wars of Ireland* to Boston** and finally [...]
