List your top 5 favorite fruits.
Okay, here’s my top 5 fruits from 5 to 1.
5. Orange
4. Cherry
3. Strawberry
2. Raspberry
1. Blackberry
Why blackberries?
Because firstly they taste amazing and secondly they would grow wild and freely available from bushes along roads everywhere while growing up in Ireland. A real happy childhood memory!
‘The Lonesone Boatman’ was a song released in 1980 on the old Banshee label by The Fureys & Davey Arthur. Written by Finbar Furey, it’s a haunting tune played with a long tin whistle known as kerrywhistle cobre high D alongside guitar and other traditional instruments.
This version on YouTube is from the 1985 Harmac compilation album called ‘Green Fields of Home’.
..recreated a bit of Dublin nostalgia kitsch from the 1980’s.
This well-known neon sign from the old Cats wine bar on Leeson street in Dublin city Ireland is now available on a t-shirt from the Irish Nostalgia webshop (check links below). All recreated down in our design dungeon by ‘Big Pen Louie’! ✏️
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This design is now available from the Irish Nostalgia store on Redbubble and also on Teepublic . ..Go check it out!!
..created in 1931 by Prof.Thomas Smith in the back of his shop on the Old Cabra Road Dublin, the nappy rash cream ‘Sudocrem’ was originally packaged in glass jars. Yesterday was a sad day though, with the news that the manufacturing of this wonder cream used for many ailments and famously favoured by Madonna is now moving to Bulgaria. 😔
.. one can only wonder if it will ever be the same without that Irish touch☘️ …will Sudocrem simply become a Pseudocrem? 😳
…this little bird has flown to travel agent heaven! …sad to hear about the end of Joe Walsh Tours today after 60 years serving the Irish traveller.☘️🏖️🌅 😔😔
– The Luas –
Dublin light rail transport (tram) opens it first line (Green Line) on June 30th, 2004. The locals in Dublin sometimes refer to it as the Daniel Day Luas.
..popping into Easons on a Saturday morning – O’Connell Street, Dublin in 1968.
..the face of the old one punt (pound) note, the mythical Queen Maeve. A powerful woman not to be messed with.
This was part of the Irish Pound banknotes series. The Central Bank of Ireland started issuing these 1 Irish Pound banknotes in 1977. They were withdrawn from circulation in 2002.
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