#clonakilty

[luimnigh]

The first time I heard the album American Idiot was when I was on holiday with my family in Clonakilty, a small village near the southern coast of Ireland, where an aunt of mine lived at the time.

My sister had it, and played it in my Mom's car radio regularly during the trip.

As a result, the mental image I have whenever I hear Boulevard of Broken Dreams is this old water pump, on the junction of Larkin, Connolly and Casement Streets in Clonakilty:

It's sunnier in my memories.

[percolatingnorth]

I’ll never refuse the opportunity to restock Baker’s as long as I see it. The star of the show here is Clonakilty.

There is essentially zero information here from anyone involved so my best judgement is it was Black Button bourbon followed by Rohrbach barleywine. What throws me off is that it’s so damn creamy that I don’t know if it’s coming from the barleywine or they make BA bourbon cream.

Nose- Very creamy shortbread cookie.

Taste- Creamy shortbread cookie with hints of chocolate a là Chips Ahoy if it was a shortbread. Light char and tannins bring a nice spice note followed by brine. Single malt Irish whiskey “gently cut with water naturally filtered through our own coastal rock formations.”

Fantastic stuff, def need a back up bottle.

@wombatannihilator

[unteriors]

Fairfield Terrace, Clonakilty, County Cork.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1890 – Birth of Irish Revolutionary leader, Michael Collins (The Big Fella) in Sam’s Cross, near Clonakilty, Co Cork.

“Give us the future, we’ve had enough of your past, give us back our country to live in, to grow in, to love.” –Michael Collins, during the treaty negotiations. Michael Collins was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance in the First Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations. Subsequently he was…

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[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1922 – Michael Collins is killed in an ambush. On the last day of his life, he set out from Cork in a convoy that passed through Bandon, Clonakilty, and Rosscarbery on its way to Skibbereen.

Fuair siad bás ar son Saoirse na hÉireann. “Give us the future, we’ve had enough of your past. Give us back our country, to live in, to grow in, to love.” –Michael Collins Michael Collins was killed during Ireland’s Civil War at Béal na mBláth – not far from Woodfield, Clonakilty, Co Cork where he was born just over 31 years earlier. During the War of Independence, Tom Hales had undergone…

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[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1890 – Birth of Irish Revolutionary leader, Michael Collins (The Big Fella) in Sam’s Cross, near Clonakilty, Co Cork.

#OTD in 1890 – Birth of Irish Revolutionary leader, Michael Collins (The Big Fella) in Sam’s Cross, near Clonakilty, Co Cork.

“Give us the future, we’ve had enough of your past, give us back our country to live in, to grow in, to love.” –Michael Collins, during the treaty negotiations. Michael Collins was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance in the First Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations. Subsequently he was…

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[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1922 – Michael Collins is killed in an ambush. On the last day of his life, he set out from Cork in a convoy that passed through Bandon, Clonakilty, and Rosscarbery on its way to Skibbereen.

#OTD in 1922 – Michael Collins is killed in an ambush. On the last day of his life, he set out from Cork in a convoy that passed through Bandon, Clonakilty, and Rosscarbery on its way to Skibbereen.

Fuair siad bás ar son Saoirse na hÉireann. “Give us the future, we’ve had enough of your past. Give us back our country, to live in, to grow in, to love.” –Michael Collins Michael Collins was killed during Ireland’s Civil War at Béal na mBláth – not far from Woodfield, Clonakilty, Co Cork where he was born just over 31 years earlier. During the War of Independence, Tom Hales had undergone…

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[mynewwords]

clonakilty

noun

The trance you go into when you stare into an open fridge. 

You can also experience clonakilty at a supermarket while staring at a shelf full of things you thought would be just one thing. Legend has it that the reason Leonard Da Vinci found it so hard to finish anything was because of a series of clonakilties brought about by having all his brushes in one drawer.