OK, I’m getting serious now. I’m starting to draw up plans for a visit to Ireland in 2012. That’s all I know at the moment. No wait, I also know there will be two couples at first and we’ll do a couple weeks of B&Bs moving after exploring a region for several days. We know we want to visit Dublin, Co Wicklow and the west. Then I have the option of sending the wife home with the others and doing some more serious music/genealogy travel. Genealogy would be in Co Tyrone.
There, that’s all I know.
I’d really enjoy putting together a string of house/pub sessions so I could enjoy some tunes and see life as the locals see it. Any takers?
A festival might be fun too.
I could do a whistle making/playing seminar if there was a reason to.
Just kicking around ideas at this point, so anything goes.
Hmm… Actually she said she’d not want to be gone for more that two weeks, and didn’t want to dig in libraries etc, so if I want to do that, I should stay over some. More like “let” the wife go home I suppose.
When you’re up north, it would be worth your while to drive over to Glencolmkill in Co. Donegal. There’s often really good music in the pubs, particularly Biddy’s and Roarty’s, on summer evenings there, thanks to the Oideas Gael language and culture school. They do get started late, though, so if you do that, you might want to make it an overnight.
While you’re in the Dublin/Wicklow area, don’t forget to visit Glendalough. It’s stunning. The traditional music pub crawl in Dublin is also worth doing. They take you to pubs that the locals go to, rather than the tourist pubs.
