Mobissimo

Ireland remains one of the icons of bucolic tourism.  A land unspoiled by massive tourism and huge corporate development.  Or is it?  Dublin is becoming a major business destination and with that comes all the other parts of corporatization - suburbs, retails chains, higher prices.  Read more here about the Emerald Isle via NY Times (reg might be required).

AN August night in the sea-scented village of Kinvara finds us at Connolly’s, a pub so permanent that if some codger were to tell you it was here before Galway Bay, lapping now just outside the door, you’d nod and buy him a pint. My wife and I are hunched at a small table with friends when a smiling woman in a peasant skirt sits beside us, carrying a perfectly appropriate accessory in this corner of Ireland — a button accordion.