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Greg Meyer Final Ireland Portfolio: Death, Flowers, and Graffiti
“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan I’ve always been ashamed when Shane McGowan queries, “Have you ever walked the lonesome hills, or heard the curlews cry? Or seen the raven black as night upon the wind-swept sky? To walk the purple heather […]
Ireland J-Term 2013: Arrival in Ireland
Late Sunday morning, we flew out of the Twin Cities, snow and lakes forming a fractal-patterned Jackson Pollock painting beneath us. Up at thirty thousand feet, it was only a little colder than on the ground below. After landing in New York, a seven-hour layover gave us plenty of time to explore JFK Airport–we were […]