I enjoyed this journey through Ireland and Northern Ireland: The zoom about the pubs of Dublin is interesting: there are about 800 pubs in Dublin,important places of meeting for the Dubliners. First of all the "Brazen Head" , a 800 years pub managed by John Hayne who told the story of the Irish rebel who as captured in his pub and then executed and whose ghost is now walking through the rooms of the pub. We meets Eoin Higgins (chief editor of the Dubliner and we see the "General Post Office"where on the 24th of April 1916 Patrick Pearse read out the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, we meet Peter, the newspaper vendor who enters into the "International pub" to sell the newspaper and who meets there a Irish singer. Then Laurent Girard, a French expatriate, shows the Grafton Street , a former workers neighborhood who has become an elegant neighborhood and we end the walk at "Paddy Cullens" pub where Laurent and his colleagues are enjoying a beer.
Then we travel to Galway and the Connemara: in this region there are quite many people speaking Gaelic. This region has been ruled by the "O'Flaherty" clan from 8th century to 16 th century: they built a castle around 1546 in Ballynahinch: then the castle was owned by the Martin family, a new castle was built in 1684.
We follow Michael Gibbons, a famous historian and archaeologist, who organizes archaeological tours and shows his discoveries near the cementery of of Ballynakill. We meet also Desmond Kenny, a bookskeeper who speaks Gaelic and sells books about in Gaelic language. Tim Robinson , a writer of Roundstone explains that Ireland is a land of story tellers and that the wild nature of the Connemara has inspired him very much. Finally we seeethe musicians playing Irish folk music in the Festivalof Cliften (the music is part of the Irish soul).
I enjoyed the encounters of Stéphane with the owner of the guesthouse in Belfast, with the black taxi driver (the visit of the frescoes), with Brian Connoly , the fisherman and fishing guide and with the manager of the "Maggee" bar in Belfast (the stout beer, the snugs, spaces for the ladies or discreet drinkers), nice encounters with kind Irish men and women.