Comments on: Irish Blog Awards - looking for a lift from and back to Carlow http://www.drakkart.com/eire2/2008/02/27/irish-blog-awards-looking-for-a-lift-from-and-back-to-carlow/ MacKozer's Irish diary Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:48:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: katharine larkin http://www.drakkart.com/eire2/2008/02/27/irish-blog-awards-looking-for-a-lift-from-and-back-to-carlow/#comment-24052 katharine larkin Tue, 27 May 2008 07:50:48 +0000 http://www.drakkart.com/eire2/2008/02/27/irish-blog-awards-looking-for-a-lift-from-and-back-to-carlow/#comment-24052 Your blog on the castle is good. I have seen what you are talking about. I have broken my heart a good few times in the last ten years over beautiful old places destroyed. Irish attitudes to heritage are different to a lot of other places. To a lot of people all the old stuff is English and pagan and nothing to do with them. Now there is a new bunch who are "experts" and they control development of heritage sites with a tick in the box approach, but they don't have the feeling or love it. Ireland is a very young State, less than 100 years and there isn't nostalgia for the past like in England and because of the long occupation old buildings are not seen as part of heritage. In Ireland people are attached to music, socialising, sports and religion as their identifiers. Tourists and immigrants who are the ones who feel wonder for old sites. To give some credit where due - the new river park is good. You can go to Council meetings and watch, and you can stand for election. You sound like you would make a good councillor. Your blog on the castle is good. I have seen what you are talking about. I have broken my heart a good few times in the last ten years over beautiful old places destroyed. Irish attitudes to heritage are different to a lot of other places. To a lot of people all the old stuff is English and pagan and nothing to do with them. Now there is a new bunch who are “experts” and they control development of heritage sites with a tick in the box approach, but they don’t have the feeling or love it. Ireland is a very young State, less than 100 years and there isn’t nostalgia for the past like in England and because of the long occupation old buildings are not seen as part of heritage.

In Ireland people are attached to music, socialising, sports and religion as their identifiers. Tourists and immigrants who are the ones who feel wonder for old sites.

To give some credit where due - the new river park is good.

You can go to Council meetings and watch, and you can stand for election. You sound like you would make a good councillor.

]]> By: James Corbett http://www.drakkart.com/eire2/2008/02/27/irish-blog-awards-looking-for-a-lift-from-and-back-to-carlow/#comment-17294 James Corbett Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:12:00 +0000 http://www.drakkart.com/eire2/2008/02/27/irish-blog-awards-looking-for-a-lift-from-and-back-to-carlow/#comment-17294 Looking forward to meeting you at the Blog Awards. Looking forward to meeting you at the Blog Awards.

]]> By: Irish Blog Awards » Blog Archive » The gigantic post of pre and post 2008 Irish Blog Awards meetups http://www.drakkart.com/eire2/2008/02/27/irish-blog-awards-looking-for-a-lift-from-and-back-to-carlow/#comment-17196 Irish Blog Awards » Blog Archive » The gigantic post of pre and post 2008 Irish Blog Awards meetups Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:24:57 +0000 http://www.drakkart.com/eire2/2008/02/27/irish-blog-awards-looking-for-a-lift-from-and-back-to-carlow/#comment-17196 [...] Also, if you are heading back via Carlow on the night, let this chap know. [...] […] Also, if you are heading back via Carlow on the night, let this chap know. […]

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