Quite excited about my recent close encounter with O’Neills black and white pudding. I’ve been eating their fabulous dry-cured bacon – low salt/no water – in both joint and rasher form for a good few years. I normally pick it up in the excellent Kate’s Farm Shop off the Duncannon Roundabout outside Wexford town on
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The Charms of Wexford, part 2
All this said, it’s ‘the other Wexford’ that claims my affection, to the extent where friends have taken to calling me ‘The Ambassador’. It begins with a left turn on the N11 at Ferns towards the picturesque town of Enniscorthy. One the way you pass Salville House, a weekend retreat that enables you to do
The Charms of Wexford
I have just celebrated my 20th anniversary of coming to Dublin to live. When I arrived on 28th August 1987 the place was closed for business. Emigration, albeit not in famine ships, seemed to be the fate of Ireland’s populace once more. The ferries leaving Dun Laoghaire sat several feet lower in the water than
La Dolce Vita
La Dolce Vita is a cult film, made in 1960 by Italian maestro Federico Fellini. At a superficial level you could call the movie a remake of Roman Holiday but it’s much more than that. Fellini skilfully weaves a commentary on the life and times of a Europe emerging from post-war austerity and plunging headlong
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