I spent a year in Galway teaching on a Fulbright. It was a lovely town then and still is. She couldn’t find a better place to study. Be sure to go over and spend time in the West of Ireland while she’s there.
I visited Galway for a conference about 20 years ago, and I took a day off to drive out to the Connemara district. Wildly beautiful, but that day I also understood why my forebears left and ended up in Australia during the 1840s.
Of course. I should have realized you would already have visited Nora Barnacle’s home there and looked for Michael Furey’s grave, not to mention Thor Ballylee and all the other Yeats sites.
August 27th, 2010 at 6:36PM
I spent a year in Galway teaching on a Fulbright. It was a lovely town then and still is. She couldn’t find a better place to study. Be sure to go over and spend time in the West of Ireland while she’s there.
August 27th, 2010 at 6:47PM
Wild horses couldn’t keep me away, Dennis.
August 27th, 2010 at 8:12PM
I visited Galway for a conference about 20 years ago, and I took a day off to drive out to the Connemara district. Wildly beautiful, but that day I also understood why my forebears left and ended up in Australia during the 1840s.
August 27th, 2010 at 8:17PM
It is wildly beautiful. I’ve been to the west coast a lot, and love it madly. Can’t wait to go back.
August 28th, 2010 at 6:37PM
“Ireland, ah, the grass was so green and the sky was so blue…”
“And why did you leave Ireland, Grandpa,” we small children would ask.
“I was starvin'” he’d reply. And we’d all laugh uproariously.
Grandpa = my grandfather, an immigrant (~1905) Irish plumber.
August 29th, 2010 at 4:03PM
It’s the birth of a Soltan Blogging Dynasty!
August 29th, 2010 at 4:26PM
I dunno, Crimson05er. She’s so busy with her other stuff – Facebook, texting, tweets … I think she lacks my single-mindedness.
September 1st, 2010 at 4:23PM
Of course. I should have realized you would already have visited Nora Barnacle’s home there and looked for Michael Furey’s grave, not to mention Thor Ballylee and all the other Yeats sites.
September 1st, 2010 at 4:45PM
Dennis: Actually, though I’ve been there a lot, I haven’t visited any Nora sites. Lots of Yeats places, though.