Tag: Ireland

• Corned Beef and Cabbage

  Happy St. Patrick’s Day. It’s a big deal for me. It’s always been that way. A combined celebration, one of ancestry and heritage directly followed by my birthday. A one-two punch. I was almost named Patrick. I like Sean better. I used to go on a proper tear, I might have a touch but it’s…

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  March 17, 2023

  Reading Material

  #18, Bushmills, Corned Beef and Cabbage, Guinness, Ireland, Irish, Irish Whiskey, Jameson, Killbeggan, Mandela Effect, Mary Ryan, Memorial Park Boys, New York City, NYC, Powers, Queens, St. Patrick's Day, The Berenstain Bears, Thin Lizzy, Thurles, Tipperary, Tullamore Dew, Whitestone, XXI Team, XXIRISH

• Cathal Muhe

  -Queens Boulevard, 2004 He forced his very own metaphorical boulder across a boulevard associated with death.  He always found it amusing to liken himself to the mythological Sisyphus, though he was no ruler of Corinth, no ruler of anything, nor was he Greek.  He didn’t need Tartarus to hand out a sentence.  He punished himself for the misdeeds…

  SG

  January 28, 2023

  Reading Material

  Fiction, Ireland, Memorial Park Boys, Morrissey, New York City, Queens, Short Story, Sisyphus, The Smiths, Thurles, Tipperary, USPS, Whitestone, XXI Team

• The Thinning Of The Veil

  Happy Halloween, y’all. All Hallow’s Eve holds first place in the ranking of holidays for me. While I remain a hardened skeptic I must admit I have a deep love for all things supernatural and otherworldly. Predating Christianity and the Gregorian calendar, the festival of Samhain marked the season of allhallowtide, celebrated by the Celtic…

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  October 31, 2022

  Reading Material

  All Hallows Eve, American, Candy, Celtic, Chocolate, Christianity, Druids, Halloween, Horror Movies, Ireland, Irish, Jack-o'-Lantern, Memorial Park Boys, Michael Myers, New York City, Parenthood, Queens, Tradition, Trick or Treat, XXI Team

• Dart Etiquette – Ch. 37

  Kenny waited for me at the Hayes Hotel, situated in Liberty Square, it was re-established as the Hayes in the 19th century about twenty some odd years after my great great grandmother fled her hometown in the last year of the Great Famine. She crossed the bridge of tears, joining the diaspora instead of the…

  SG

  February 1, 2022

  Dart Etiquette

  Al Green, Book, Cusack's Bar, Dart Etiquette, Death, Fiction, ghostface killah, Hayes Hotel, Ireland, Memorial Park Boys, Metallica, Mets, New York City, Novel, NYC, Peter Cushing, Queens, The New York Mets, The Rza, Thurles, Tipperary, Whitestone, XXI Team

• Dart Etiquette – Ch. 23

  My friends were dependable, and if and when I needed them they were there, and that was reciprocated. It could be anything from a small loan to standing by my side to ensure a fair one stayed fair. I knew I always had a place to crash if I needed to get away from my…

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  January 4, 2022

  Dart Etiquette

  Baseball bats, Book, Box Cutter, Budweiser, Dart Etiquette, Death, Fiction, Finglas, Flask, Ireland, Irish Whiskey, Memorial Park Boys, New York City, Novel, NYC, Queens, Taco Bell, Whitestone, XXI Team

• Dart Etiquette – Ch. 15

    I bashed the tractor tire in our backyard. I hit it repeatedly with the sledge hammer as instructed by my cousin. furious, it was more than just letting off some steam, it was unadulterated hate. I don’t know how long I attacked the tire for but I must have been back there for a…

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  December 9, 2021

  Dart Etiquette

  Book, cannibal corpse, Cassette Tapes, Death, Deicide, Dysfunctional Family, Fiction, Finglas, Ireland, Long Sleeve T-Shirt, Memorial Park Boys, Metal Heads, New York City, Novel, NYC, Queens, Sledge Hammer, Tomb Of The Mutilated, Truck Tire, Whitestone, XXI Team

• Dart Etiquette – Ch. 4

  The floorboards creaked beneath heavy feet, above me someone was walking around the house. Who was upstairs? I knew who it wasn’t. I thought maybe it was the ghost again. I had heard one once. It was obviously not my mother, highly doubtful, she would never have returned home, she had been gone too long…

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  October 30, 2021

  Dart Etiquette

  Alvin Petty, Book, Dublin, Fiction, Horror, Horror Movies, Ireland, Irish Whiskey, Metallica, New York City, Novel, NYC, picture disc, Queens, records, Thurles, Vincent Price, vinyl, Whiskey, Whitestone