A hundred thousand welcomes … to our new blog. We (Dublin Ohio Convention & Visitors Bureau) 
thought this would be a good way to share some insider tips and start a conversation about our cool city. If you’ve ever been here, we hope you’ll let us know your impressions.
Although our roots are not exactly Irish (legend has it that the town’s Irish surveyor was given the honor of naming the town) … our attitude IS Irish! So, let’s start this blog off with a contest. In honor of it being (more or less) half way to St. Paddy’s Day, he/she who posts the best Irish toast/Limerick/proverb or story (by Oct. 28) wins an Irish gift basket including local goodies from The Sisters Sweet Shoppe and a gift certificate from Dublin Village Tavern. (C’mon, you know you want to try an Irish egg roll.)
October 21, 2008 at 6:44 pm
We love Dublin. We’ve been to the Blarney Bash several times and like to stay in Dublin whenever we’re in the Columbus area. Our favorite place to eat is the Dublin Tavern. We were on an Alaskan cruise in June and the captain was Irish. One evening before dinner his toast was “Where there’s a will I hope my name is in it”. We liked that one.
October 21, 2008 at 6:57 pm
My husband is Irish and he wrote me this little poem last year while we were engaged….
My home is in Ireland, tis quite fair and grand
My heart is in West Virginia, where I asked for her hand
In these hills and these valleys, I’ve found true loves gold:
My mountaineer bride, to have and to hold.
October 21, 2008 at 7:05 pm
This blog is for sharing tips so I’d like to share one with all of you. This rhyme is the best I can do.
This isn’t a toast but I do wish him well,
Ric “Da Fiddlah” from Homeland is signing off for a spell.
But, If you’d like to give him just one last smile,
Get yourself to Byrne’s Pub, Saturday night for awhile.
Byrne’s Pub in Grandview, OH Sat. October 24th. I’m going to miss his excellent fiddle playing so much. I hope he decides later on to join up with Homeland again. But, I’m just a fan that wants to give him one last smile. You can’t help smiling when he’s playing the fiddle!!
October 21, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Wishing you a rainbow
For sunlight after showers—
Miles and miles of Irish smiles
For golden happy hours—
Shamrocks at your doorway
For luck and laughter too,
And a host of friends that never ends
Each day your whole life through!
October 21, 2008 at 7:32 pm
May the saints keep your back from breaking while you kiss the Blarney Stone.
October 21, 2008 at 7:37 pm
There once was a Pole from East Lublin
Whose outlook on life was most troublin’
He looked at his glass
Twas half empty, alas
So he fled to the Tavern in Dublin.
October 21, 2008 at 9:35 pm
May everyone respect you,
trouble neglect you,
the angels protect you,
and heaven accept you.
Slainte!
October 21, 2008 at 9:51 pm
READIN’ THIS WARMS THE COCKLES OF ME HEART
October 21, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Can you say Slainte?
“Irish is an attitude” is more than just a saying
‘Tis truly a piper’s call to get the band a-playing
A challenge for visitors to rise and start a-swaying
To eat, to drink, to laugh, to sing
To walk, to run, to dance, to swing
To recall each and every Irish thing
While in the hotels of Dublin they’re staying.
October 22, 2008 at 1:07 am
Congrats to the Dublin CVB on the birth of your bouncing baby blog! Here’s wishing you many happy returns… and lots of link love and comments.
When I think of Irish words, phrases and poetry, I think of the beautiful classic song O Danny Boy. We sang it in my HS choir every year a capella, bringing our audiences to tears.
O Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountainside
The summer’s gone, and all the flowers are dying
‘Tis you, tis you must go
and I must bide
Amazing that I can still recall the lyrics after all these years, but what can I say… the Irish gets into your blood!
October 23, 2008 at 7:23 pm
This is a great idea. Thank you to the DCVB team for being such innovative pioneers
I am happy to work in such a well supported City.
I am looking forward to new entries and ideas.
October 24, 2008 at 1:13 pm
The Mouse on the Barroom Floor
Some Guinness was spilled on the barroom floor
when the pub was shut for the night.
Out of his hole crept a wee brown mouse
and stood in the pale moonlight.
He lapped up the frothy brew from the floor,
then back on his haunches he sat.
And all night long you could hear him roar,
‘Bring on the [gosh darn] cat!’
October 28, 2008 at 2:44 pm
My wife (Sue) and I found our way to Dublin’s Irish Fest last summer and had the time of our lives. We’ve attended the Irish Fest in Milwaukee for years and our opinion is that the Milwaukee fest places a fine second behind Dublin’s well planned event. Sue and I have hundreds of plaques, posters and various other memorabilia that highlight the great Irish sayings, proverbs, quotes and other banterings. Here are a few of our favorities:
1. For an Irishman, talking is a dance. Deborah Love
2. God made the Italians for their beauty. The French for fine food. The Swedes for intelligence. The Jews for religion. And on and on until he looked at what he had created and said, “This is all very fine but no one is having fun. I guess I’ll have to make me an Irishman. Author unknown
3.Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all that we will know for truth Before we grow old and die. I lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you and I sigh. William Butler Yeats
4. “We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.” Winston Churchill
5.The curse of the Irish is not that they don’t know the words to a song — it’s that they know them all. Susan Dooley
6. “Those who drink to forget, please pay in advance.” Sign at the Hibernian Bar, Cork City.
7.“This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.”Sigmund Freud- speaking frankly about the Irish
8.”When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?” Quentin Quisp
9.Had you English not persecuted the Catholics in Ireland … the greatest number of them would before now have become Protestants. Napoleon Bonaparte
10.“May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses? (The request of a young admirer to Joyce in Zurich). To which Joyce responded “No, it did lots of other things too”. James Joyce.
11. Who is a friend but someone to toast, Someone to gibe, someone to roast. My friends are the best friends Loyal, willing and able. Now let’s get to drinking! Glasses off the table! Irish toast
12. When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let’s all get drunk, and go to heaven! Irish toast
13. May you die in bed at 95 years, Shot by a jealous wife! Irish toast
14. May I see you grey And combing your grandchildren’s hair. Irish toast
15. Here’s to Eileen O’Hara For her life held no terror Born a virgin Died a virgin No runs, no hits, no errors. Irish toast
16. Here’s to good Irish friends Never above you Never below you Always beside you. Irish toast
17. A toast to your coffin. May it be made of 100 year old oak. And may we plant the tree together, tomorrow.” Irish toast
18. “Tis better to buy a small bouquet And give to your friend this very day, Than a bushel of roses white and red To lay on his coffin after he’s dead.” Irish proverb
19. “God is good, but never dance in a small boat.” Irish proverb
20. “Dance as if no one’s watching, sing as if no one’s listening, and live everyday as if it were your last”. Irish proverb
21. May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind illegitimate children chase you so far over the hills that the Lord himself can’t find you with a telescope. Irish curse
22. “When the roaring flames of your love have burned down to embers, may you find that you’ve married your best friend.” Irish proverb
23. “But the greatest love — the love above all loves, Even greater than that of a mother… Is the tender, passionate, undying love, Of one beer drunken slob for another.” Irish ballad
24. “You know it’s summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.” Hal Roach
25. “Ireland, thou friend of my country in my country’s most friendless days, much injured, much enduring land, accept this poor tribute from one who esteems thy worth, and mourns thy desolation.” George Washington, speaking of Ireland’s support for America during the revolution
25. “Ninety percent I’ll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I’ll probably waste.” George Best
26. “They say the sun never sets on the British empire — well, baby, it’s setting.” Frank McCourt
27. “Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.” John McGahern
28. “Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.” Alex Levine
29. On the chest of a barmaid in Sale Were tattooed the prices of ale. And on her behind, For the sake of the blind, Was the same information in Braille!
30. “Irish Alzheimer’s: you forget everything except the grudges.” Judy Collins
31. “Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish”. Ted Whitehead
32. “May your health be like the Capital of Ireland—- always Dublin!
November 6, 2008 at 11:20 am
No cute sayings , just a hearty cheer for this wonderful site and my appreciation for a great place to live and work.