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May 24, 2004
Fondue is good for you.
I took Shera and Adriana to The Melting Pot to celebrate their graduation from the Master's of Criminal Justice program at Weber State University. It was very expensive, but well worth the experience. We had "The Big Night Out" which came with a cheese course, salad course, entree and dessert. It was good, heavenly in fact. The dinner I shared with them Saturday night, is certainly how food should be enjoyed. Slowly. It took us three and a half hours for our meal from the beginning of our cheese course to the end of our dessert course. I highly recommend The Melting Pot to celebrate special occasions.
Now...onward to Ireland.
4/23/04 - Castle View B&B, Two Mill Borris.
Breakfast this morning was YUMMY, once again. We set out on another geneology adventure today after making reservations for our last few B&B nights. Strangely our 1st choice was booked, but our second turned out to be one of the coolest families and storytellers, Pierce and Joan Duggan.
After making our reservations we went to Upperchurch and found...O'Dwyer's Groceries and....Undertakers...the same family, in the same building. Now, I know that Pub families generally did the pubbing and the undertaking, but was startled to see the grocery duo. The husband had just left, but Pierce Duggan and Mrs. O'Dwyer both believe that it is a relation. We also visited with Father Flynn in Drom, where we believe Martin Flynn was from originally. Father Flynn (no relation) the parish priest in Drom told us that excellent stories, one in which the Flynn's were driven out of the village by the British in the mid 1850's. This story explained why we were having such a difficult time finding anyone by the name of Flynn in Tipperary County. Many of the Flynn's were sent to Australia.
After we finished our geneology work we headed to Two Mile Borris to check into Castle View. Mrs. Duggan recommended the Horse and Jockey Pub in "Horse and Jockey".
Dinner was excellent and on our return Pierce was waiting anxiously to speak to us about our adventures. Mr. Duggan is amazing. He had such a depth of knowledge and sense about Two Mile Borris, Thurles, Upperchurch and Drom. Later we discovered that he was once the parish priest in Upperchurch but after meeting Joan found that he wanted to embrace the love he felt for her. His former vocation shines through as he is wonderfully philosophical and opens your eyes to things you wouldn't necessarily notice or see at first.
He said that there are definant "stories" from the records we have, but that we need the original Marriage certificates and told us to research records at the Thurles Library and Historical Society. We're going tomorrow. We also plan to go back to Upperchurch to see if we can meet up with Mr. O'Dwyer.
Mr. Duggan was very cool. And he was happy for me to tell him that I thought he was. I'll have to post a picture of me with him. He was surprised to find that I was so knowledgeable about history, particularly Irish history. IF you're ever in the area....visit his family's B&B you won't be dissapointed.
Posted by Sarah at May 24, 2004 01:50 PM
Comments
i desperately want to go to the melting pot!!
how expensive is expensive?
Posted by: jodi at May 24, 2004 06:35 PM
For the three of us, with drinks (3 iced teas, 2 coffee's after dinner) and tip it came to $170, which isn't too bad considering it's four full courses.
Posted by: Sarah at May 26, 2004 04:38 PM