Thursday, February 26, 2009

Happy Birthday Jeanne


Happy Birthday to My Better Half. Thanks for all the great years together. .

Monday, February 23, 2009

A little bit of blarney..... Some books

I got a few Irish and Irish American books I'm reading or planning to read. I will review them after I finish. They are:

Are You Somebody? - Nuala O'Faolain
All Souls - Michael Patrick MacDonald
How the Irish Saved Civilization - Thomas Cahill
Fables of the Irish Intelligentsia - Nina Fitzpatrick

Write a comment and suggest other books I should read......

Monday, February 2, 2009

Irish Writers - February


"On Pembroke Road, look out for my ghost,
Dishevelled with shoes untied,
Playing through the railings with little children
Whose children have long since died"

Patrick Kavanagh 1904-1967