i'm rudy maxa on the emerald isle, hoping a bit of irish luck will rub off on me. this time, we'll uncover the best of celtic culture in country homes, ruined castles, and smiling irish eyes. next up, it's "ireland's west coast" on "smart travels." announcer: major corporate support for "smart travels" is provided by expedia.com, a travel web site that offers travelers a variety of ways to create the trip they're looking for, including flights, hotels, and vacation packages. captioning made possible by u.s. department of education "smart travels" is a grand tour of the old world-- the people, places, sights, and distinctly european flavors. our host is travel writer and columnist rudy maxa, public radio's original savvy traveler. now tips, trips, and secret places on "smart travels." maxa: "a little bit of heaven fell from out the sky one day," or so the old song goes... [sleigh bells jingling] and western ireland is a celestial place for a vacation. with mist-shrouded hills, a relaxed pace of life... [waves crashing] and the soothing sound of the sea never far awa

i was thinking that was a year after my irish american family came here. why don't my irish american family know this information. i want to try to find out what it is. i didn't know at that time what i was undertaking. i heard it said with irish american it's not genealogy it's archaeology. i found out about that later. it's exciting to hear the nuts and bolts experience of discovery. and at the same time i know i heard from both of you that a very spiritual and unmeasurable experience happens of people come alive in the histories of your family's lives. i was wondering if you could bring alive for the audience the individuals or characters of your family's history and also if you can both reflect on this point that daniel's making of the importance in going to the lands and seeing what is there. what that experience was like for you personally. >> i thought i would read a bit at this point. i think this is a good point for that for me. and so you will hear a little bit of what my writings been like in this experience when i went to ireland for the first

it's also a symbol war of irish people against irish people so it is a civil war within the british empire over whether the british empire extends river its subjects go in the world. and then finally is a civil war might involving native people who are on both sides of the border and of the war. ultimately by telling the story of this border land war, i want to say that it is less about some sort of nationality understood as ethnicity than it is as a contest between a republican the empire for the allegiance of diverse peoples who lived on both sides of the border. both republicans and here i am talking about people who ideologically are committed to a republican form of government. both republicans and loyalists and here i mean anybody who is committed to the mixed constitution of great britain. republicans and loyalists suspected the continent wasn't big enough for the rival systems. republika and mixed constitution's. one or the other would have to prevail in the house divided. like the revolution is a soulful war between competing visions of america. either one still loyal to the entir

c-span: what's 'the irish thing'? guest: the irish thing? now? c-span: well, as you refer to it in your book. what's the--what are the--how do you define what the irish thing is? guest: this--it's a kind of trinity of nationalism and--of catholicism and immigration. this is--these are the characteristics of the--each nation, i think, has certain characteristics. another characteristic of the irish, which i thought was disappearing, was the drink. that's how it's referred to: 'the drink.' not drink, not alcohol, the drink. in--when i was there last week, i noticed it. it's still--the swilling that goes on is unbelievable. and i don't know where they get the money. it's a booming economy, so--but it--it's always--they always seem to have the money for the drink. and it's destroyed so many people, so many families. c-span: do you drink? guest: yeah, moderately. i d--i just don't have the capacity for it. c-span: how about your brothers? guest: they don't. three brothers don't drink anymore. they all had problems with it, and they gave it up. i sa--w

i was going to exclude dairy. >> host: what is the irish team? >> guest: the irish they now? >> host: as referred to in your book. how do you refer to at the irish thing is. >> guest: at that kind of trinity of nationalism and our catholicism and immigration. these are the characteristics of each nation having certain characteristics. another characteristic of the irish, which i thought was disappearing was the drink. that's how it's referred to. when i was there last week, i noticed it. it's still there swilling because it's unbelievable. i don't know what they get the money. it's a booming economy. but they always seem to have the money for the drink. destroyed so many people come in so many families. >> host: do you drink? >> guest: yes, moderately. >> host: how voucher brothers? >> guest: they don't drink anymore. they all had problems. they went into the guard and they were thrown as customers. >> host: why is it the end of the drink? >> guest: i tried to figure it out. there is nothing else. in a country that was completely uncluttered. compare the irish with which cult

it is not the irish finance minister. it is the irish finance minister. he resigned after a week of political in-fighting. he said it is time for change. i think we need a new party leader. the issue went to a vote tonight at the irish parliament. the irish prime minister survived. after that, with an minutes and was a point of-term. he had a turbulent year months. he is not how many days left in government. an election year is scheduled sometime within the next hundred days or so. there will be a countrywide election on march 25. it is a weaker so after st. patrick's day. in spite of winning tonight's vote, it would be a huge surprise if he is reelected come the spring time. >> what about this over a century old? they belong to ernest shackleton. they went on then expedition to the south pole. they are back in scotland where the story began. >> it was a long, long winter. they called this home. when they left in 1909, they fail to reach the south pole. they left behind precious cargo, five crates of whiskey, brandy, and port. at one time it was brought b

that brings an irish voice to the immigration reform bedate. as other speakers here, the irish are in real terms a minority in this debate. there are approximately 50,000 undocumented irish throughout the united states. but we are a very vocal minority, and i thought i would share with you some of the things that has worked for us in lobbying on this issue. and to my colleagues who are here tonight on their issues, there is no substitute for direct lobbying of officials on this. do not leave it to the mayor or even this commission tonight to lobby on your behalf. take it up and go after it yourselves. one of the wolf things about american politics, whether you are legal, illegal, in status or out of status, you can walk through the doors of federal government, and knock on those doors, and find someone to talk to, and if you try hard enough, you will get to the cossak person or senate person sooner or later. we have brought on several occasion 2,000 irish undocumented to washington, d.c., held a holiday on the hill, and marched through the corr

assets as collateral to take over the country the irish people to join their brothers and sister in tunis in tunisia in staging this global revolt against these banking terrorists the people in dublin the people into this common cause is the same or a wall revolution it's one global revolution. you mention this hell hole of money preachers world means one hundred trillion dollars more credit says world economic forum so the world expected economic growth will have to be supported by an actual one hundred trillion dollars by twenty twenty so they want to double the world's credit supply not that we don't already have too much debt outstanding but wait a minute they say look this is exactly what is going on in ireland the government can't resolve the problems they can't stand up to the crooked bankers like sean fitzpatrick and others so what they're doing is they're saying well we need to re monetize reka lot of allies refloat just another few transfers of bonds to try to make this problem go away now endeavor the global banking elite are saying well instead of pursuing the corrupt ba

how the musical contrasts are in -- irish folk music. the musical contrasts are in close proximity and that is what makes the are so special. >> regard traditional music and rock music. -- we have got traditional music and rock music. >> it is different. >> it is a very social place. the leak could people here. >> as a child, collin o'toole wanted to be in the start, but he became a bartender. he is glad he did. >> michael has been here 73 years now. -- my uncle has been here 73 years now. >> the harbor barge or just south of dublin in the small town of -- the harbor bar just south of dublin in it the small town of bray. >> crocodiles and walls might not be so commonplace, but if you were toboggan to them out of this studio, it would not be that unusual at all. we gotta put this photographer on assignment. -- we caught up with this photographer on assignment. ♪ >> pictures by one of the world's most renowned animal photographers, tim flak. unlike human models or buildings, animals are unpredictable. before tim, that is part of the appeal

place in the world where they're already at that at some stage where you have to pay for all this irish lenders see central bank for emergency loans. and other lenders had borrowed fifty one billion euros from the irish central bank by the end of december under an obscure program listed in the balance sheet as other assets can conduct from international monetary research says quote this is a horror story it shows the cataclysmic condition of the irish banking system the banks have borrowed one hundred eighty three billion euros in total or one hundred ten percent of irish g.d.p. they have burned through all of their capital and a lot of their deposits as well this is going to end up on the national debt yeah the key phrases there they've burned up their capital as in capital reserves exactly what i was just saying go blue go back to iceland circa two thousand and six two thousand and seven they loaned out ten times the country's g.d.p. and then gave him stock fraud by lending money to insiders to buy shares in the banks to force the shares higher so that the option would go higher so th

it was not the irish prime minister. it was the irish foreign minister. he resigned after a week of political in-fighting. on sunday, he stood up to the prime minister and said i think it is time for change. i think we need a new party leader. the issue went to a vote tonight in parliament in the private room on the fifth floor. the irish prime minister survived. after that, it is a point of principle. the foreign minister resigned. he resigned after a turbulent few months. he does not have many days left in government. it is scheduled sometime within the next hundred days or so. >> you are watching bbc news. still ahead of a mediator stepped up their efforts to diffuse the political crisis in lebanon. some fear a new civil war is brewing. >> an earthquake of magnitude more than 7 has just hit southwest of pakistan. there are no immediate reports of damage. it was felt in several provinces. >> the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, but this is seen across pakistan as people realize what happened. and strom earthquake in the middle of the night when mo

banks indebted to the irish banks and vice versa so in other words the u.k. population is actually bailing out irish banks yes but they all waiting out our banks but what what's always annoyed me even more is here is the beginnings is the beginnings of the sort of xenophobia backlash with the germans saying oh we're bailing out those feckless greeks and the tabloids here saying muffing docu about bailing out the irish where is you and i both know the half of the money that's going to be taken to ireland to the irish banks will then be smartly returned to british banks because it's the british banks who we're ultimately bailing out so we will blame the irish but get them to buy a loss out seems to me to be doubly on just right so you have all of this this bailout money and debt extending and pretending ending up generating fees for the very bankers that create the debt to begin with no g.d.p. growth no want to line growth unemployment is skyrocketing now let's get back to. generation debt for a second how they get into this debt what we know that for ten or fi

. >>> david lynch, when did the look of the irish runout? >> about two years ago in the midst of the global financial crisis which really expressed some tailings of an irish economic and social model that has brought great change to ireland of recorder century. my story cites a 1984 when ireland was poor, stagnant, troubled, and the country over the next ten or 15 years rose to be the richest in europe, had a cultural vibrancy that it never had before and it was at peace for the first time in generations. then as any fatalistic irishman would expect, things went badly off the rail and the country ended up in a housing and credit bubble that was even larger than the one we have here in the united states and now faces some very difficult choices. >> how did on your wind rise in the 80's and 90's? >> in the late 80's they followed a multi part strategy. they got the public finances straightened out allowed interest rates to come down. they attracted a lot of investment from the u.s., companies like intel, citicorp, microsoft, all poured into th

this poem goes into that and the last part is a translation from an irish song, the ring. >> i followed the winding coast road back from cove airny moore and her brother cast in branz at the center entrance head of a line at elis island looking as though they a choired dreksz in their own country. dim passage through american wait and coffinship the figures of a prior generation real to swells and sound effects each swollen in the ache of crossing. my father's ship united states streaming to the harbor, the way it steamed in the narrows below the rising towers of the bridge. above the keys, saint coalmans resided over the dock where my mother's mother waited and my father's forefather disappeared like vermon in the fields they flooded home. i can tell you where the to beins first landed that invited me to the patio in the house glass of whisky regard in luminous in the long twilight. if you drive east on the way to gonegarvin off to the right you will come on the ring road where there are to beins from norman times. the name [inaudible] into our own name now. i had known history but not

. >> david lynch when did the luck of the irish run run out? >> ran out about two years ago in the midst of the global financial crisis which really expose some failings of an irish economic and social model that has brought great change to our land over a quarter of a century. my story starts in 1984 when ireland was poor, stagnant, troubled in the country over the next 10 or 15 years rose to be the richest in europe. it has a cultural vibrancy that it has never had before and was a peach for the first time in generations and as any fatalistic irishman would expecf the rails in the country ended up in the housing and credit bubble that was even larger than the one we have had here in the united states and now faces difficult choices. companies like intel, microsoft gateway port into the country. they negotiated agreements and tripartite agreement to train the government labor and business community to make investments predictable, devalue the currency and 86 and again in 92 and it all ended up with the growth miracle that was dubbed the celtic

so, part of reclaiming ourselves as irish americans and having the biggest life possible means knowing everything there is to know about ourselves and our people. >> i will talk briefly about the going to saint john i set that trip up and 911 happened. and so i endsed up going on this journey back to where 3450i family came over a week after 911 which was a remarkable experience in itself because the airports were empty much everybody was gone. until we got to canada where there was a crush of people moving through with added security and so forth. when i got to saint johns i went to the perish rejist ree. met the woman i spoke with on the phone and she gave me complete access to the archives. ship lists and when they came over 1550 or 1851. there was no marriage record. they probably got married on the boat which happened often. that's where i found out that the trade with the merry times and county cork was a lumber trade. they brought lumber over and humans were brought back. profound history that, you know, my ancestors were a part of. not just mine bithousands and millions of peop

this is an irish american grave yard a memorial to the experience of coming over her in famine times partridge islands is where they had to go through. i stood about where the plot was which was a mass grave. there was no marker at all. they were buried together with the other poor in a little area. to be standing there in the space where your great, great grandfather was and other members of your family and have no marker they are the grass. they are the grass underneath your feet or their bodies are. that is a humbling experience. we are part of a remnant if we think we are not we are diluting ourselves that genealogy searchs should humble you. because it's only traces left. there are only signs left. those signs are not empty. you know, they transsubstantiate the lines that were that were there that were gone and yet are somehow encoded in us. >> thank you. >> the person i am excited to meet her. her book is called, my miserable, lonely lesbian pregnancy. please, partake our free pens. andrea. >> thank you for wearing my buttons. it comforts me to see sad faces. my miserable, lonl

and my father said, "i'm gonna build my grandson his own irish pub."d about a year later, when he finished, i got to see it. and he had guinness on draft and everything, and it was incredible and i thought -- >> jimmy: really? kegs of beer and everything? >> oh, it's -- it doesn't look like he put a pub in the house. it looks like somebody built a house over a pub. [ light laughter ] and i told him he ruined it for me. it was the most amazing thing that -- now, if i ever buy a house, i'm going to have to have pub in it because it's so cool. and a few years ago, we bought a house upstate and i built sullivan's east. >> jimmy: is that right? [ laughter ] do customers come? >> sometimes. >> jimmy: neighbors and -- >> well, people i don't know very well have shown up. but friends. and it's amazing. it's a really -- >> jimmy: is it like a -- is it a dark pub? like -- >> yeah, it's got tin ceilings and 30-foot bar. i have guinness on draft and -- >> jimmy: really? you got a jukebox? >> uh-huh, uh-huh. and i've got shuffleboard, and i've got all sorts of hist

banks suffered a liquidity crunch and facilitated the irish bailout. >> we must learn our lesson for the next set of stress tests. >> euro zone finance ministers must have been relieved to have something to talk about other than the financial rescue fund. they are looking to move away from purely reactive responses to a proactive strategy for more stability, a lower budget deficits, and better coordination of economic policy. >> i hope that the current developments continue. that we can gradually convinced the markets that fundamental indicators are more stable than the rumors on the trading floors would have people believe. and that all members are willing and able to defend the currency. >> that could also mean that national budgets would be subject to closer scrutiny by the european commission. however, the more power given by brussels, the less say individuals will have over their economies. >> european union officials have raided the headquarters of several truckers in an anti- trust iestigation. competition authorities have alleged that the companies violated competition rules

irish up 7 nothing.reece to floyd 34 yards. 28 career receiving touch down most in irish history. they look lucky a team on the rise. canes look a team in difficulties array. 34 yards. irish led 27 nothing at the half. 33 17 is the final. notre dame finish the year with 4 straight victory. chicken filet bowl winner gate bucket of chicken. just kidding. first quarter. on the move. garcia. oh. about marcus. lit up. smith. 46 yards the other way. look at that again. about left the game. obvious concussion. he will be okay. late in the fourth 19 17 knowles. manual rolling right. finds ester licensing in the back of the end season. florida state. 26-17 champs. here we are. final day of 2010. just few hours left. so much has happened in the local sporting scene this past year. in case you have forgotten any of it here's reminder item our year in review. >> this is best moment of my life. fact. p.m. pennington. he has it. throw to fir. if he had a done it. he did it. about dallas if threw a per game. wow! if oh

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i thought of the scots irish and again proposal, book proposal, and an editor who saw it said, well, this is all very interesting but why not do a book on the tories? that hasn't been one written in a long time. so that was it. and it did become a quest for records. and the records were all over the place. a lot of them here, a lot of them in canada because that's where a lot of the tories went. and there were in england and the records of in the state archives. there wasn't any country yet so they could have been much yet in the national archives, but in the state archives. for instance, in delaware, which was a bloodthirsty set of folders in what they call their treason file. because they declared that if you were a tory and you did anything that looked like is going to be raising arms against the rebellion, you could be hanged. well, that was at the beginning of the discovery that one of the reasons we -- well, i was trying to find out why is it we don't know much about tories. i mean, i had read a lot about the 18th century and george washington and so forth. and i couldn't reall