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Today on the radio show. 1 - Smoko chat 5:11 - 3 from a 3-year old. 9:03 - Daily dump - https://bit.ly/3ACgdqC 12 - Get in my belly. 13:35 - Mind benders. 17 - Hypocritical parents. 21:24 - Work partyblowouts. 25:54 - Whiskey Island. 29:47 - Buster from 2 flogs got mistaken for Dunc. 31:46 - Football has been given a sick new format. 35:09 - Lost in the forest. 40:11 - Song about being lost in the bush. 43:48 - Late mail. 47:45 - Last drinks. Get in touch with us: https://linktr.ee/therockdrive
Whiskey with the extra ‘e', this episode is all about the history of Irish whiskey, the fall and resurgence of Irish whiskey and the whiskey experience on the island.Today, we're joined by John Callely from Whiskey Island, as we go on an exciting dive into the delicious drink that is whiskey. We explore its history, from its rise to prominence to its remarkable resurgence in recent years and leave you with some top tips for whiskey drinks.For more information on Whiskey Island and their tours visit www.whiskeyisland.ie This episode's Irish words or sayings:Uisce beatha (Water of life / whiskey) – Pronounced: ISH-ka bah-haAn Irish toast:Health and long life to youand land without rent to youA husband or wife of your choice to youA child every year to youAnd may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you are deadSláinteDrink recipes:Irish Old Fashioned•A young blend Irish whiskey – 60 ml•Benedictine Dom (instead of sugar syrup) 25 ml•Angostura bitters - 2 dashes•Orange bitters - 2 dashes•Rocks glass with orange peel•Good thick well-packed ice-Stir(Irish) Whiskey sours •Teeling small batch•Lemon juice•Honey sirup•Apricot brandy•Egg whites•Coupe-style glass-Shake upIrish coffee•Pouring cream•200 ml size glass•Good coffee-Shake the creamJohn's favourite cocktail (batch)•Young Irish whiskey (full 750 ml bottle)•Cranberry juice 1l•Apple juice 1l-Stir-Pour into slim jim glasses with ice and a slice of limeExperiences mentioned:The oldest pub – Sean's Bar, Athlone: www.seansbar.ie
Green rolling mountains, sleepy and bleating sheep, idyllic villages and vivid cities with wonderful people, vibrant traditional pubs with passionate folk music, delicious local food and, of course, a long and quite eventful history of producing whiskey…… Does that sound appealing to you? If yes, come join Miri on her trip to Ireland and experience the Emerald Isle with her!For this episode, the three of us sat down together to have a chat about Miri's journey and, of course, Miri didn't come back from Ireland empty-handed. She brought some short interview snippets with her, which she recorded on-site at several distilleries. So, you can look forward to interviews with Alex Chasko of Teeling Distillery, John Cashman of Powerscourt Distillery and Diarmuid Madden of Jameson Distillery.Guided through the country by John Callely of Whiskey Island, who you will also get to know during this episode, and Gracie Boylan of @tourismireland and @entdecke_irland, Miri had the chance to discover the stunning beauty of Ireland and we couldn't wait to listen to Miri's and her interview partners' stories – maybe you feel the same now?!If all that has made you curious, sit down, relax, pour yourself a lovely dram of whiskey and come discover a glimpse of Ireland with us.
My friends, as a wise man once said many moons ago to a group of weary travelers and curious on-lookers: all Big Ass Augusts must come to an end. And, with this episode of This is my Bourbon Podcast, we're bidding adieu to the greatest month of the year. We're doing so, though, by welcoming old friend of the show Gregg Snyder back to talk about all the new and exciting things happening at Chicken Cock Whiskey and get into a review of their Island Rooster Rye expression. We've got lots of good pours, great laughs, and some wonderful Tips 'n' Bits to go along with your favorite little podcast all about America's Native Spirit. Enjoy, and goodnight, Australia. Become a patron of the show at http://www.patreon.com/mybourbonpodcast Send us an email with questions or comments to thisismybourbonshop@gmail.com Check out all of our merch and apparel: http://bourbonshop.threadless.com/ Leave us a message for Barrel Rings at (859)428-8253 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mybourbonpod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mybourbonpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mybourbonpod/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisismybourbonpodcast PayPal, if you feel so inclined: PayPal.me/pritter1492
Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, Karen J. Weyant is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Stealing Dust (Finishing Line Press) and Wearing Heels in the Rust Belt (Main Street Rag). Her poems and essays have appeared in Chautauqua, Copper Nickel, Crab Creek Review, Crab Orchard Review, cream city review, Fourth River, Lake Effect, Rattle, River Styx and Whiskey Island. Her poems have also appeared in Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry Series and the Sundress Publications Best of the Net annual anthology. She lives in Warren, Pennsylvania and is an Associate Professor of English at Jamestown Community College in Jamestown, New York.
Photo: Weather vane, Whiskey Island, Cleveland, United States CBS Eye on the World with John BatchelorCBS Audio Network@BatchelorshowIs OPEC planning for a change in the weather? Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomisthttps://www.economist.com/podcasts/2021/06/09/aint-easy-being-green-the-bottlenecks-threatening-the-energy-revolution
Welcome to the 2nd Songs, Stories & Shenanigans Podcast. This is J publisher & Editor of the OhioIANews. I’d like to start out with sharing a story form this month’s issue, Called Donnybrook, written by John Myers. Our heritage, American and for me, Irish, is the blueprint of what makes us who we are; have you been to The Greater Cleveland An Gorta Mor Stone? It is a good place to start. The Stone, on the banks of the Cuyahoga River, as well as a stone’s throw away, Settler’s Landing, soothed by the flowing Cuyahoga – the river, both physically and symbolically, is the gateway to Cleveland, for anyone, but especially, for the Irish. The river was the reason many came to Cleveland, and the gateway to Irish Town Bend. Irishtown Bend runs along this River, along the Flats. It is roughly the area from West 25th Street east to the river / north of Detroit Road. It was swampy. It was developed during the 1830s by the Irish who came to the area as laborers for the construction of the city's railways and canal. Many soon found work on the bustling city docks, or in the growing industries. Steel wouldn’t come until later of course, but other industries did. The area was characterized by the extreme poverty of the outcast Irish. We all know of the “No Irish Need Apply” signs, right? On shops, in newspapers – there is plenty of proof, if you wish to find it. For a period, the majority of the poorer Irish who came here lived in nothing more than flimsy shacks, built from discarded wood, anything they could find on the sometimes shifting hillside above the polluted and disease propagating river. Due to their outcast status in Cleveland (or name your city) society, the Irish formed a very close knit, closed neighborhood, much like the Italians & other ethnic groups like mine did. I kid you not when I say 3 and 4 FAMILIES, lived in a room, in double and triple decker houses. The weight alone sometimes caused the collapse of the houses. They would stop, bury the dead, and salvage whatever material could be used to build a new shelter, on the same spot. The constant threat of disease and the backbreaking work most engaged in made life in Irishtown tough, at times violent, and often very short. A bachelor’s life is no life for a single man in Irishtown bend. Life was centered on 10-12 hour workdays, 6, or 7, days a week; their community; the pub; and their faith. We all know of the Irish reputation for drinking. I hate stereotypes; don’t spread them. The brave may not live forever....but the cautious never live at all. There are some who will disagree with this history and say the poverty, the crowding didn’t happen. I think they look too late, in time. It evaporated when business pushed it out, heading into the new century. Increased immigration during the 1840s as Ireland headed toward Black 47 brought more of their countrymen, causing Irish Town Bend to expand. The neighborhood became known as the Angle, including old Irishtown and Whiskey Island. In the 1860s, St. Malachi Church was built in Irishtown, with St. Patrick's on Bridge near Fulton built earlier a little further west. With continued growth, the Irish expanded as far west as West 65th Street, adding a third parish, St. Colman's on W 65th & Madison, in the 1880s. West 65th Street was the first location of the West Side Irish American Club, before moving to W 93rd, and then to Olmsted Twp, where they have been since 1990. It is the largest of the Irish clubs, with 1,900 households as members. My dad has been President since 1991. As the Irish immigrants entered the 1900s, they had started to gain some upward mobility in society. Cops led to lawyers led to judges and through it all, politics. Increased industry and job opportunities, as well as business of their own where they paid it forward by providing jobs to newly arriving Irish, allowed for economic growth in the community. Irish to Irish called those that did well Lace Irish – both a hidden source of pride at making it, and a derogatory term, at taking on airs of success. Who knew being able to afford curtains would carry so much meaning? However, the Angle, especially Irishtown, remained the poorest area. This remained the case until early into the 20th century. As the Irish of Cleveland began to join the ranks of the middle class, they left Irishtown and headed for the western suburbs of Lakewood, Fairview Park and West Park, where I was born and raised, and returned to. I was working at a coalmine in Alabama when I got a job offer to return to Cleveland. Whoosh, I was gone. On Irishtown Bend, the homes that were left behind would become inhabited by Hungarian immigrants for a brief time, and then abandoned. An Gorta Mor Stone was designed, funded and placed by the Greater Cleveland Hunger Memorial Committee, founded by John O’Brien, Sr., my dad, and made up with “get things done” people from throughout our community, like me. It is a 10-ton, 10-foot stone, hand carved by stone cutter, craftsman and committee member Eamon D’Arcy, who passed away in 2014. What a legacy he has left on our shores. It was placed to coincide with the 150th Anniversary of Black 47. Forgive me if you know some of this, but here’s a quick blurb: There were over 4 million people in Ireland leading up to 1845. That number is debated; the number quoted depending on who is doing the counting. The governing authority, the British, said 2 million, and based their number on the Hearth Tax – in which the tax man, called the Excise Man, that you hear about in songs, walked around Ireland, and counted the hearths. “Run like the devil from the Excise man, to the hills of Connemara”… The Excise man attributed 1 man, 1 woman and two children to each hearth. Now I don’t know many farming families in Ireland that had only two children. The average was closer to 10. Often, a grandparent, or two, an unmarried aunt or uncle, or both lodged there as well. Some say 1 million died on the coffin ships, so called because people were packed in so tightly, and buried at sea when they died within, or left to shores world-wide, including Cleveland. I say it is more than 2 million, significantly more. Either way, a massive number of boats filled with grain were leaving Ireland while people were dying on the road, evicted for not being able to pay their rents, when the crops failed, for 5 consecutive years. The main crop was potato, and a man would eat 10 lbs in a day – a rich source of nutrients, and perfectly suited to the climate in Ireland. The crops have failed before, they have failed since, but the perfect storm of 1845 – 1850 sent the Irish across the world. Most prefer it be called An Gorta Mor (The Great Hunger), rather than The Famine, since they view it as a deliberate act of the British, rather than an act of God. The governing authorities wanted to convert farmland to grazing land – there was much more money in beef than in potatoes. 100 yards east of the Famine Stone is Settler’s Landing – it represents the spot that 42-year-old Moses Cleaveland brought a survey team of about 50 people to, in 1796, from Connecticut. Cuyahoga is an Iroquois name given to the river, it literally means, crooked river. The Superior Viaduct began in 1875 and completed in 1878. The Detroit Superior Bridge was built in 1918 – 102 years old. 100 yards from the Stone is Lorenzo Carter’s resident replica, built in 1976. Across the street is the Flat Iron. It is the oldest Irish pub in Cleveland. It was started in 1910. To the left of the building was a stair there, gone now, but I remember it. It led up to tiny rooms, just wider than a bunk, which held a bed and a little table. Outside the rooms was a wall full of cubbyholes. Men in town, Longshoremen who unloaded boats and sailors, got their mail there, after 3, 6 or maybe 12 months at sea. It gave them an address for family back home to write to. Too often, they came home to find a letter telling them a loved one had died. Yet still, they continued the practice of working, saving, enough to bring another from home. One who came was Tom Byrne, a flute teaching local legend, who emigrated to Cleveland in 1948 to join family already come over. He came into Terminal Tower on the train, to catch a bus out to his family. He was nervous, excited, hopeful and scared. He walked onto the square and the world had gone mad. Streamers, confetti, a parade, tens of thousands were on the street singing, hugging, cheering, and he thought, “Wow! What a country, to welcome a poor farm boy to their world.” He thought the celebration was given for everyone. He didn’t know that the Indians had won the World Series the day before. Let it be again, please God. These stories of cheering and sorrow are highly unusual to us here in America. But they are the stories of America. They are not unusual to those who left Ireland, Italy, all over Europe, for a better life. Many war veterans won’t talk about the war. Many immigrants are the same. But if you ask, respectfully and with curiosity, you might get them to tell. They have such amazing journeys; our challenge is to get them to tell those stories, before they are lost forever. It is what the Ohio Irish American News is about; the stories of our past, that shape our present, and future, they shape us. Ask them, I promise you will be amazed. I was going to do a bit of poetry to end the day, a work of mine called The Vacant Chair. I’m not going to, it’s sad and it’s sweet and I know it complete, but we’ll save it for another less stressful time. The news came out this week that Fests cancelled. All I ask is that: Vote by Mail Support Rest/Pubs/Import Stores As John Denver said, “Follow me where I go, what I do and who I know; www.OhioIANews.com www.facebook.com/OhioIrishAmericanNews www.twitter.com/jobjr Instagram: OhioIANews Thank you for allowing me to share my story with you; Please share yours, with me See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Megan is an English Teacher and Department Coordinator at Cuyahoga Heights High School. She has been teaching English language arts to high school students near Cleveland, Ohio since 2004, earning her master's degree from Kent State University in 2007 and achieving National Board Certification in 2013. She has ventured beyond her own classroom to work with urban youth through the Akron based organization Alchemy, Inc. and has also traveled to Istanbul, Turkey to work with teachers and students on developing constructivist practices. Her poems have appeared in English Journal, Belt Magazine, Whiskey Island, Into the Void, and elsewhere. She tweets @MegNev. Poet Jose Olivarez said of her new chapbook, Rust Belt Love Song, “Megan Neville’s poems are unflinching in their observations of cruelty and tenderness alike. Rust Belt Love Song is still music, and Neville is a worthy artist—stretching ordinary moments to show all of the wonder, pain, and yes, love that exists just under the surface.” The post Megan Neville — Episode #92 appeared first on Talks with Teachers.
"A rejection letter doesn't mean it's not working." —Caroline Knecht of Whiskey Island Founded in 1977, Whiskey Island is a nonprofit literary journal published by Cleveland State University. They accept submissions of original poetry, fiction, and creative essays during two reading periods: August 15th through November 15th, and January 15th through April 15th.
"A rejection letter doesn't mean it's not working." —Caroline Knecht of Whiskey Island Founded in 1977, Whiskey Island is a nonprofit literary journal published by Cleveland State University. They accept submissions of original poetry, fiction, and creative essays during two reading periods: August 15th through November 15th, and January 15th through April 15th.
Hear how the G33ks Urban Shadows campaign ended. What will their group play next? Hear about Sam's last backpacking trip from which thankfully everyone survived! In the News Corner they discuss Jessie Smollett again, Asus accidentally installed trojan software on thousands of PCs, and some Boarderlands speculation! Also some new Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and a truely scary story happening here in ohio.
Welcome to Delta Dispatches with hosts, Jacques Hebert & Simone Maloz. Today's first guest is is Bren Haase, executive director of Coastal Progress & Lost Lake at the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA). To kickoff the show, Bren looks back at the CPRA's successes in 2018 such as Whiskey Island, Lost Lake, and Center for River Studies. Next, we look ahead to what's next for coastal restoration in 2019. To end the show, Simone and Jacques bring on Kenny Bahlinger, a project manager with CPRA. After talking about Kenny’s role with CPRA, the hosts ask Kenny about the Lost Lake Project and more!
By this summer, the island will be 1,000 acres larger. But the state will have to periodically rebuild it in the coming years. The post Audio: Whiskey Island shows the progress and challenges of beach restoration projects appeared first on The Lens.
Kristen Brida’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hobart, Whiskey Island, Bone Bouquet, REALITY BEACH, and elsewhere. She is the editor-in-chief of the intersectional feminist journal, So to Speak. She is an MFA candidate at George Mason University. She tweets @kissthebrida On the Edge is a production of Cleaver Magazine and is produced by Ryan Evans. Visit cleavermagazine.com for more high quality art and literary work.
Novel Ideas discusses the book Whiskey Island DB58098. Below is the synopsis from bookshare.
In episode #16, Millenia and Roberta discuss our April 2012 pick (137th) WHISKEY ISLAND by Emilie Richards! For more information about our online book club, visit our website: http://www.thereadingcove.com