• Irish-English terms and phrases   • Dutch customs and culture   • Irish pubs' opening and closing times... - - - - - - - - - .   • The accidental American bombing of Nijmegen in 1944...   • Pope John Paul II in NL...   • The hyper-polite motorists in Bend, Oregon...

• The stupefying habits of the bilingual... • But I'm an immigrant. "No you're not." An American in Ireland... • The byzantine complexity of ownership in a troubled historic Kilkenny Ireland laneway...