I am very pleased!

Folks:

Just a quick note to tell you that I am very pleased to see the ways that people are jumping on the blog idea. Let me encourage all the rest of you to participate as well. The conversation and your posts can be directly related to Questions I or others post, but you should also feel very free to originate posts on other topics, formal or informal. I would be glad to see the blog take on the character not only of a fairly specific scholarly conversation, but also more stream-of-consciousness informal interaction...more like the "crack" at a pub session.

Congrats to our Girls who made it to the step-dance class at the Rec. Let me encourage others to look into this as well: when we travel in Ireland, we will be in several locations where set- and ceili-dancing is very much encouraged. Check out these photos from last year here.

I have added a short video clip of Darach O Cathainn singing "Oro Se do Bheata Bhaile" to "Materials - Week 02 - Links." Check it out; on anything other than a broadband connection, it will take several minutes to download and play.