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Notes from a Damp Island

Marci Cornett

Not a(nother) guide to Ireland but stories to make you thankful you don’t live here, told by an admittedly homesick Kentuckian.

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Irish phrases I wish I could use in Kentucky

I blame it on the years of dance lessons while I was young.

I learned to watch the most prominent person in the room, mimic their movement, then make them my own.

Since moving to Ireland, I’ve discovered I still do this. But not with move...

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Help! The mixer ate my fingers

About ten years ago, just after I returned to Ireland as a newlywed with an Irish husband (god help me), I took a job at a shop where I sold fresh pasta made on the premises, often by me.

I wish whipping together a batch of tagliatelle wer...

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Ep. 1: Grocery shopping with the Irish

First, the tea shop that sells loose leaf by weight.

I love it here and often have a poke around, even though I only ever buy the same two teas. Earl Grey and English Breakfast (which my Irish husband refuses to call anything other than “B...

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Irish vs. US opinions on money, politics, nudity…

I recently incited an argument with my Irish husband over whether or not a chocolate bar is a snack.

Actually, he wasn’t arguing with me. He agreed a chocolate bar is a treat. A dessert, even.

But I’d just watched a YouTube video called “...

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When did I get so compressed?

Earlier this year I told my doctor in Kentucky about some unusual back pain I’d been having.

Basically, I felt like I’d been punched at the base of my spine.

As I know mysterious pain can turn critical if ignored, I thought it important t...

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    Moved to Ireland for the love of a man, and now just wants to move away (for the love of god). Also a prize-winning short story writer and a complete Jane Austen obsessive.

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