“God created landscape photographers so dogs could see the world!”—Himself Three Goldens and ‘The Red Rocket’:  Jack, Luke, Riley and Heidi When I read a friend had lost a Golden...

****** Tipperary Hill: The Neighborhood Memory is described by the late John O’Donoghue in Walking in Wonder* as “… a place where our vanished days secretly gather, as a kingdom...

Tipperary Hill Revisited: From St. Patrick's Shamrock window to its iconic 'Green Light' We lived on Whittier Avenue, a few hundred yards from Burnet Park. I visited the zoo nearly...

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Across the bay the hills of Ibh Rathach draw, a ragged line along the sky, and on the other hand the country rises till the huge shape of Mount Brandon...

*Reprinted from Syracuse.com, Mar. 18, 2012 I grew up on Tipperary Hill in Syracuse with the memory of sitting on our front stoop with Pa Ryan and his dog listening...

Photographer friend John P. Kennedy (facebook) shared a link recently with news that a pub in Upperchurch, my grandmother Katie’s village, might be one of the best in Ireland! Above: a few shots...

Over 60 years ago, great grandchildren of the famine Irish were coming of age. I was one of them. We were neighbors and friends. Even now, I remember the musical...

On “Five Lakes Sunset” from Syracuse.com Posted on November 30, 2015 A few weeks ago, John Francis McCarthy took off on a quest. He drove his minivan east on Route...

On the road in Ireland, weather aside, it’s been an incredible journey -- Dublin to Omagh to Donegal south through Mayo and Galway, Doolin and Quilty, to Kilkee traveling along...