Though I have yet to make the journey at this time in my life, my Irish heritage has always been apart of my life. Growing up in Catholic family, celebrating irish holidays, enjoying tunes from the Clancy brothers, chieftains, as with the Dubliners. Along with many more on the more ambient and mystical side of music heavily incorporating the tin whistle, celtic harp, irish flute, along with many other tradition folk instruments. Of course being amazed with the class and precision of the Irish step dancers. All though some might not be fans of the very well known river dance and lord of the dance, I my self do enjoy it; seeing river dance a good 4 times and lord of the dance once. Although I am aware of the saying "too irish to be irish" I can't stop thinking about it and being in love with all aspects of the culture, the land, the history, and most of all the people. In past years it has been more of a fantasy and dream, though with in the last 6-8 months or so I had really started giving it a thought and thinking, yes It just might be a possibility for me to move to Ireland for an extended period of time. Beginning further research and reading on all aspects of past and current history of Ireland, going back to the druid times, 1921, Easter Rising, and bloody Sunday.
So people may say "what do i know about those event since not living there but all I can and am willing to do is to reading about it and familiarizing my self with what makes the irish people who they are. And in conclusion to this post; as of now it is my mission and all my concentration to learning as much as I can about Ireland and to really truly feeling apart of it.
13 February, 2008
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