Back to the Beginning
I've been in Ireland for some time now and after being here for a month I think I can begin to reminisce on my time spent in Dublin. It was amazing: the architecture, history, stories, food, and people. I have yet to see another place in Ireland like Dublin. What made it even better is the fact that I was there with my friends and could experience night life in another country with them. We drank; it was in Dublin that I tried Harp for the first time. We listened to all sorts of music, traditional Irish tunes, pop, rock, rave; it was definitely an experience. We also saw sights that made you laugh and worry at the same time. There was at a point a man so blubbering drunk that he fell backwards out of his chair and all his friends (along with him) laughed and laughed. So, what brought these feelings of nostalgia to the surface? That would be James Joyces short story "Counterparts" which is located in his larger work of literature Dubliners. The protagonist "went th...
