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...Galway, Ireland—At 8 a.m. a few Sundays ago, I heard a knock on my door. Having hit the pillow at 4 a.m. after clubbing in town, I moaned, turned over and tried to ignore the fact that it was time to get up. I heard the steady sound of rain on the window—something I hear nearly ever morning here...
...ever the snobby New Yorker/Bostonian, I’ve come to appreciate that a city as tiny and intimate as Galway can be cosmopolitan in its way. This town attracts both the normal and the freakish from all over the world, melted together in a big love-fest of live music, dusty bookstores and drunken walks home over the quaint cobblestoned streets. I love Galway so much already, and I know by the time I go home and I’ve walked those streets infinite times, I’ll feel like it’s mine...
...leaving Galway has its pleasures, too. Last weekend I experienced again the inexhaustible thrill of being a young traveller, of getting off a bus in Dublin with a backpack on and trying to find my way to a hostel using a tiny Let’s Go map. When I stood (with a high school friend who had popped over from Oxford) at the gates of Trinity College for a “backpackers’ pub crawl” I heard the gorgeous sound of travel stories being exchanged in various accents—“We?...
Harvard’s strategy proved to be successful as the Crimson triumphed over the Isis Boat Club by a length and a quarter and then sent the University of Ireland back to Galway, Ireland without...
Since Lawrence's move from Galway, Ireland in 1989, both he and his brother have worked in the Square's Border Cafe, Grafton Street and in Temple Bar on Mass...