<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Ireland</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</link><description>Ireland</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[At Ireland's Golfing Greats,  The Grass Is Always Greener]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37376-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37376-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</guid><pubDate>Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:21:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On the first tee at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland I had the jitters pretty good, which made sense considering that I was a neophyte pilgrim on hallowed ground. I started into my routine, hoping that the procedure would carry me through, but then became distracted by, of all things, a smell.]]></description><author> Oliver B. Patton</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk About Travel]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18349-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18349-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</guid><pubDate>Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:21:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Vegetarian fare in Ireland, shoes for traveling, Park City, Utah...]]></description><author>LiveOnline</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ireland's Warm Cold  Season]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26690-2005Jan21.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26690-2005Jan21.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</guid><pubDate>Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:21:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The coziness of pubs, hallucinogenic light and fewer tourists make Ireland a prime winter destination.]]></description><author> Ambrose Clancy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Re-Joyce in Dublin]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34428-2004Jun11.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34428-2004Jun11.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</guid><pubDate>Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:21:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If my Dublin visit had been a play, the plump matron with the wisp of silver hair would have been one of those stray characters who pop up from nowhere. As she pulled a furry hound by a leash along the beach in the suburb of Sandy Cove, I approached and asked for directions to the James Joyce Museum.]]></description><author> Gary Lee</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk About Travel]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38856-2003Jul10.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38856-2003Jul10.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</guid><pubDate>Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:21:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Driving in Ireland, Pa. Turnpike...]]></description><author>LiveOnline</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ireland: On Road and Off]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43814-2003Jul11.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43814-2003Jul11.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</guid><pubDate>Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:21:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Loose chippings. That's what finally did me in on my road trip through western Ireland. Not driving on the left, not rain-slick streets, not sheep in the road, not hairpin turns, not distracting vistas, not tour buses hogging roads the size of sidewalks -- although I certainly encountered all of the above during my nine-day, 700-mile drive last month. No, it was the pointy little rocks on the side of the road. Signs warn you about these "loose chippings," with helpful pictographs of blown-out tires in case you miss the point. Heed them.]]></description><author> K.C. Summers</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Staying Put: After a week in Doolin, the lifestyle of song and drink takes hold.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43815-2003Jul11.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43815-2003Jul11.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</guid><pubDate>Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:21:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One of the strongest themes in Irish culture and literature is itchy feet, getting up and out, or being forced to. The tale of the wanderer, the rambler, the gambler, a long way from home and if you don't like me then leave me alone, was presented by traveling poets with harps slung across their backs for the pleasures of lords and ladies or, if that gig fell through, the pub or the fireside. Stephen Daedalus's and Leopold Bloom's day- and night-long odyssey is simply the logical conclusion to the earliest Irish poetry.]]></description><author> Ambrose Clancy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sheep Thrills in Ireland]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57667-2003Mar7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57667-2003Mar7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</guid><pubDate>Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:21:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ever since seeing "Babe," the 1995 movie about a polite pig who triumphed in the dog-eat-dog world of competitive sheepherding, I've longed to see a herding trial. Not because I wanted to spend time getting to know ewes. On the contrary -- it was the bossy dogs herding them that held my interest. However, there are precious few sheepherding trials in Manhattan.]]></description><author> John Rosenthal</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artful Dublin]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3318-2002Jan18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3318-2002Jan18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</guid><pubDate>Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:21:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Someone has crafted a dense, human-size spider web in a 17th-century baroque chapel. At the center of the swarming thread, a longhaired woman lies in a hospital bed, sheet to her chin. Silence, light filtering from stained glass, and her stillness trapped in the maze reminds the viewer of some old dada  wisdom -- any work of art that can be completely understood is the product of a journalist.]]></description><author> Ambrose Clancy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ireland's Pint-Sized City]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45711-2001Apr5.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45711-2001Apr5.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/ireland</guid><pubDate>Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:21:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Pasha's Rug Store in Galway City is one of many shops in the Bridge Mills, a 17th-century building rising beside the Corrib River. Cathriona Kilgarriff takes a silk rug to the window for better light. The Corrib is madly rushing past, white-water ribboned brown. She's asked if it is always so wild. "Only when it rains," Cathriona deadpans. And then her smile slowly grows, wicked with irony. A smile that could be the image of this jaunty old city, full of young people, facing the Atlantic.]]></description><author> Ambrose Clancy</author></item></channel></rss>