Monthly Archives: May 2012

Owned and operated by Edward Melvin of Dublin Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mick O’Pedia has several million ‘Hiberno-Anglicised’ articles online. According to Wikipedia it:

… uses a Python script to convert articles (taken from the English Wikipedia) into Irish (Hiberno) English. The link structure and content of Mickopedia is the same as that of the English Wikipedia. Only the wording is change to reflect Irish Hiberno English words instead of more common standard English words.

Get your Bejasus on here.

(Thanks @AmandaF)

Lowry says he intends running in the next general election. He says that despite all the “public humiliation” he has had to endure, he has managed to build up a local political organisation, the “Lowry Team”, with eight councillors, including his son Micheál.

“If I’m knocked over by a bus, it won’t be the end of the Lowry Team. The Lowry Team will go on in Tipperary.”

Welcome to Lowryland (Irish Times)

(Photocall Ireland)

Adamstown, county Dublin. More metaphor than suburb.

Other than a postman, a pair of council workers mending a pavement and a solitary jogger, the place seems empty.

The silence is only broken by announcements from the station tannoy, blown across town on the breeze, telling non-existent passengers to step back from the platform edge as a fast train is approaching.

The place has the feel of an American suburb, rather than a bustling Irish town.

The first people who chose to live here were assured that their pioneering spirit would be rewarded.

There would be nearly 50 shops, nine restaurants and two public houses. To date a single convenience store, a hairdresser and a pizzeria are the only community facilities.

Irish recession: Inside an ’empty’ town (BBC News magazine)

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