My photoblog (www.kozerawski.com) is shortlisted for Irish Blog Awards. Last year I couldn’t come to the awards gala. I was in Poland. This time I want to go to meet Irish bloggers I know only in virtual reality. The problem is the time of the gala. It is at 7.30 PM and I am afraid I will finish quite late and I won’t catch the bus back to Carlow.
If there is anybody from Carlow or who is going to Irish Blog Awards gala and will be driving through Carlow on his or her way to Dublin and back, and could give me a lift to Carlow after the party I would be very grateful.
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Looking forward to meeting you at the Blog Awards.
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.