Spring Break Ireland 2005

[Maine Finn]

Here's the first batch of pictures. I'll post more as soon as I get them on PhotoBucket.

On the way to Killarney from the airport. This is around six in the morning.
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Saturday night, after sleeping off jet-lag. O'Donoghue's Pub is one of the two pubs adjacent to our hotel. There was a party goin' on!
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Sunday's trip to Ross Castle/Loch Leane.
Ross Castle as seen from the water.
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Bit of fun on the viewing deck.
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[Eat a bullet]

Damn cool! woot
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Looks just like my backyard. :lol:

[Shar.]

Those are some nice pics you've made mf :D

[Maine Finn]

More pics!

Trip to Dingle, on Monday.

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Back at O'Donoghue's Monday night. One of our guys turned twenty-one so we threw a party for him, with the blessing and assistance of Joan, the manager.
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Shot of Wild Turkey with rum and Coke for a chaser. Happy birthday!
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Gotta say, the birthday boy got utterly f***ed up. By the time things started winding down, he'd had thirteen shots, two beers, a rum and coke, and the whole damn bottle of champagne. Nothin' like a good party, huh? ;)

[Haiw]

Wow... if you had told me some of those nature pics were from Africa I wouldn't have doubted ya! :lol: Looks pretty cool.

[Maine Finn]

Bagpipers from the Washington D.C. Fire Department playing in the Killarney Cultural Centre. They marched in the Saint Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin and were touring around Ireland.

In the background, there's a couple ladies dancing to the music.
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The D.C. group performing in O'Donoghue's at our group's request. It was cool, 'cause the scheduled band was just finishing and these guys came in and just started playing.
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A former US Marine with our group standing at attention during the playing of the Marine Corps Hymn.
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I've got a couple video clips, too, but the quality isn't all that great. If anyone wants to see 'em, I'll try to get them hosted and posted.

[disabled1]

i would love to go back to ireland

[Pook2]

Oye, love them pipes, I need to get some pictures of me playing mine.

[goldman]

That is so cool woot

[Midav]

Great pics!!! woot

[Ria]

So pretty. I love the castles! Glad you had fun Em. :hug:

[CG51]

more pics of Ireland please... woot

[moughoun]

Ah, Bunratty castle, I've passed it many time's on the way to Limerick, btw good job making it through Limerick alive........ ;)

[James]

Thank you for sharing Maine Finn.

[Ratamacue]

Do they really post all signs in both English and Gaelic?

[moughoun]

Do they really post all signs in both English and Gaelic?
yes we do

[Stormy]

Nice pictures, Finn. I see you had some fun.

[Maine Finn]

more pics of Ireland please... woot

Like I said, I've got a couple video clips, but I don't know if they're too big to host. I'm checking on that right now.

I can post 'em if anyone's interested.

Yeah, we had a great time. Here's a good reason why you should not take pictures while drunk:

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The person on the left is one of the Londoners who was drinking with us Sunday night.

[Stormy]

http://s11.yousendit.com/default.uplx <---- Upload it here, Finn.

[Ratamacue]

Do they really post all signs in both English and Gaelic?
yes we do
Do people still speak it there or is it really just sort of a way of holding on to your heritage?

[moughoun]

Do they really post all signs in both English and Gaelic?
yes we do
Do people still speak it there or is it really just sort of a way of holding on to your heritage?
it's not that widely spoken, but we have an Irish tv and radio channel, we have lot's of Irish only school's, they are very popular because of their quality, and there are several area's of the country that Irish is more common then English, especially in the Gaelteacht in Galway where you have to speak Irish, the number's of fluent speaker's has actually started to increase for the first time since the famine

[Maine Finn]

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It's not Oscar-material, but hey, not bad for my little digi-cam. :D

[Clarsachier]

When I was there in 2002, most of the traffic signs I saw were only in Gaelic. I was delighted my 'book Irish' was finally of some use!

[Ratamacue]

it's not that widely spoken, but we have an Irish tv and radio channel, we have lot's of Irish only school's, they are very popular because of their quality, and there are several area's of the country that Irish is more common then English, especially in the Gaelteacht in Galway where you have to speak Irish, the number's of fluent speaker's has actually started to increase for the first time since the famine
Interesting. I was always under the impression that it was pretty much a dead language aside from use by scholarly types and whatnot. Pretty cool that it's not the case.

[Maine Finn]

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Apologies for the poor video quality.

[Shar.]

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Apologies for the poor video quality.

great vid, nice irish music :D

[ShotOver]

Hrmmm... matey, I want to go to Ireland woot