This the third part of our trilogy to Ireland. We saw some of Ireland’s best weather in 2007 and Killarney was our third stop after Dublin and Galway. We took a jaunting car ride through Killarney National Park, and the fine driver, whose name escapes us told of John McShane a builder who left for America and built the Pentagon with Philadelphia legend John Kelly Sr.. John Kelly Sr. was father to Grace Kelly and made his fortune in the brick business. According to our jaunty car driver, John McShane moved back to Killarney Ireland where he passed away in 1997 at the age of 92. He left his mansion and land to Killarney which now a folk museum and National Park. Happy St. Patrick’s Day Jimmy CraicHead
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Dublin Ireland was the very first place in Europe I visited back in 1981 enroute to Paris. It was just a one night layover and about the only thing I remember was a large gathering or protest for Bobby Sands
an IRA prisoner who was well into his 40th day of a hunger strike. Well it long over due to go back to the roots of my real surname “Coffey”. One really special tour we found was The Musical Pub Crawl which feature a couple of musicians that play and teach the history (in 3 different pubs) of traditional Irish music and the “sessions” held around the country. None of that American Danny Boy shite!
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Ireland Easter week saw some of the nicest weather “in ages” according to one of the locals. Galway, a University Town on the western side of the island was a 4 hour left sided drive from our landing in Dublin on Easter. We catch up with James Britton an American graduate student living there since August, drink up some Guinness at The Kings Head and have some good Craic talking about Galway and Ireland in general. Stay tuned…the search for Craic and Irish trad folk music next post!
