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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Love of City Not Country – Dublin vs. Ireland
Ever since the controversial Five Things I Hate About Dublin, Ireland post, numerous well meaning (I’m sure) people have asked me why we don’t just leave. The simple answer is, Dublin. The post, I now realize, was misnamed. Most of … Continue reading
Feeling Other – Racism and Racial Profiling in Ireland and Elsewhere
In Backwards and Forwards, one of my favorite books on writing drama, David Ball says that two connected events create one action. By this he means one inciting event invites/invokes/encourages a response event that becomes the inciting event for the … Continue reading