{"id":122,"date":"2011-10-22T13:47:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T13:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2011-10-22T13:47:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T13:47:29","slug":"day-12-galway-to-brosna-with-a-stop-in-the-burren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/22\/day-12-galway-to-brosna-with-a-stop-in-the-burren\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 12 &#8211; Galway to Brosna with a stop in the Burren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were celebrating Michael Flannagan&#8217;s birthday in Brosna today so I must make the 200 km trip back south. I stopped to see my friend Dave Harper in Tubber which is in the Burren close to Crusheen. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Burren\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Burren<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Burren is a beautiful area of the country with unique vegetation. Harper bought himself a cottage recently and is using his building skills to make a beautiful home for himself and his partner Yuka.<\/p>\n<p>Then back to Castleisland where I met up with Jackie O&#8217;Connor. He gave me a huge feed of cabbage and bacon then we warmed up on some of our new tunes. Terrence collected us at 9:30 and we drove to Brosna. It is fun for me to listen to the 2 lads chat about Kerry history, local characters and football. We arrived at Flannagan&#8217;s bar and the place was packed to the rafters with patrons there to wish Michael Flannagan a happy 93rd birthday which had occurred the previous day. So if I have this right he was born on October 20th, 1918. Michael was in fine form directing various patrons, including myself, to sing a song. The amount of food they put out was quite amazing; wee Irish sausages on toothpicks, sandwiches and birthday cake. It seemed I was meant to eat a plate of 20 sandwiches by myself. There was a lovely 10 year old box player, Patrick Moriarity, who gave us some great tunes. He place 3rd in the All Ireland this year. Jackie, Terrence and I played til near 1am then made our way home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were celebrating Michael Flannagan&#8217;s birthday in Brosna today so I must make the 200 km trip back south. I stopped to see my friend Dave Harper in Tubber which is in the Burren close to Crusheen. \u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Burren The Burren is a beautiful area of the country with unique vegetation. Harper bought himself a cottage&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/22\/day-12-galway-to-brosna-with-a-stop-in-the-burren\/\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[16,15,11,18,20,14,26,17],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland-trip-2011","tag-accordion","tag-banjo","tag-fiddle","tag-irish-music","tag-jackie-oconnor","tag-jay-kuchinsky","tag-the-burren","tag-whistle"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phnddJ-1Y","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}