Ireland

Golf-course features include the putting green and the flagstick.

From India to Ireland... for golf

India's growing middle class is being targeted in a campaign to bring more of the country's golfers to Ireland. Arjun Atwal's win in the US last weekend has focused attention on a market that is potentially one of the biggest in the world.

How to tell a story

Eamonn Fitzgerald writes: "Telling a story is not as easy as it sounds."

"Yu Ming is ainm dom"

"Today, 300,000 people speak Irish daily"

Beyond the Dingle Peninsula (Irish: Corca Dhuibhne)

Five houses in Ireland

Puck Fair takes place in Killorglan, Country Kerry, on 10, 11 and 12 August. The event started in pre-Christian times as a celebration for a good harvest and it is thought that the star of the show, a wild goat, may represent the pagan god, Pan.

Steve does not do punctuation

"An apostrophe plus 's' forms the possessive case"

You, too, could be Irish

The Irish government is planning to introduce certificates of Irish heritage for as many as 70 million people of Irish descent around the world. It is expected that many descendants of Irish emigrants would wish to buy one to display in their homes.

Spotlight 7/2010

LANGUAGE
We explain why native speakers talk as they do, and give you listening exercises to practise what you've learned.

Travel: Cycling in Ireland

For our travel feature this month, correspondent Julian Earwaker spent a week cycling through the west of Ireland. Listen now to a portion of an interview with John Heagney, who organizes cycle holidays.

James Joyce, textorized with an excerpt from Ulysses. Author: Maxf

In Dublin with James Joyce

The events in Ulysses took place in Dublin on 16 June 1904. The day has since grown into "Bloomsday", a festival of everything to do with James Joyce. If you'd like a break from cappuccino and croissants, you'll love the Bloomsday breakfast.

Ulysses "Seen", the online graphic novel adapted by Robert Berry from Joyce's Ulysses (http://ulyssesseen.com)

Joyce, Ulysses, Bloomsday - Medium

James Joyce's epic novel Ulysses chronicles the activities of Leopold Bloom in Dublin during the course of one day, 16 June 1904 (when Joyce first dated his future wife, Nora Barnacle). What happened in Ulysses? What's happening around Dublin on Bloomsday? Review the past tense and the present continuous.

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