[Leica] Friday Flowers SonC / Ireland

[Douglas Barry]

I've been a bit lax here due to this, that, and the other, Sonny, am 
catching up with LUG prompted by reading Ilsa's article in the paper 
edition, and just spotted your email on it. It's an excellent piece, and 
perfectly sums up the riotous lifestyle and relentless party grind we 
have to endure for the honour of being Irish. Pity the photo of her 
isn't a bit sharper and, with a full glass to her lips, she's almost 
adopting an Irish burqua :-)

To clarify for those who wouldn't be familiar with scribblings from 
Ireland, "The Gloss" is a glossy monthly that comes out with the best 
Irish daily newspaper The Irish Times. Of course, I would say that as I 
get that particular paper delivered every day, but only got around to 
reading the mag today. She must be delighted to get her toe in the door. 
Hopefully, she'll get more opportunities there in the fullness of time.

Equally, she should try and get some colour pieces on Ireland from an 
American slant into US publications while she's at it. After all, there 
are loads of stories, especially as we're all transfixed by the border 
implications of Brexit over here. Most Irish people are finding it hard 
to credit the stupidity of the Brits in sowing the wind and probably 
reaping the whirlwind, as the potential re-emergence of a hard border 
between the Republic and Northern Ireland will prompt hard headed men in 
the North contemplate their internal greenness, and dig up forgotten 
guns. Maybe the potential catastrophe won't happen, but paper never 
refused ink, and the pay is good....

Douglas
from the edge of somewhere in Ireland where tomorrow's bacchanalia is my 
camera club's Christmas party














On 15/12/2017 10:20, Sonny Carter wrote:
> I’m thinking of Ireland this week.  Roses in the morning at my daughter’s
> home in County Wicklow, one of my favorite images from a visit in 2008.
>
> http://sonc.com/look/?p=5717
>
>   One of her articles published this week in *The Gloss Magazine*, recounts
> an American contending with life in rural Ireland.   Good read:
> http://thegloss.ie/how-to-survive-the-irish-dinner-party/
> <http://thegloss.ie/how-to-survive-the-irish-dinner-party/>
>