Kerry Dexter

Ireland by Podcast: 4 of the Best Ireland by podcast: language, politics, music, and history each center 4 of the best Irish podcasts; the wider subject for all of them, though, is community

#Ireland by🎤☘️ podcast: explore history, language, politics, legends, music, & more with my recs for 4 of the best perceptivetravel.com/blog/2020/03...

Gaeilge: 3 Ways to Explore Irish Language Gaeilge. Gaelic. Irish. the Irish language: 3 ways to explore, and several reason why you'll want to and why it'll add to your experience of Ireland.

Learn a bit about the Irish language, and hear 🎶☘️ songs in Irish from @muireannnic.bsky.social @cathieryan.bsky.social @caradillonsings.bsky.social too: story at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #Ireland #SaintPatricksDay #creativity #Gaeilge perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/03...

Sunday Sessions: a song for Saint Bridgid a song for changing times and seasons

As you prepare for Saint Patrick's Day, take a moment another Irish saint kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...

Ireland: A Drive in County Down Northern Ireland Legend, mystery, landscape, and music along the road between Newry and Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland

Discover a place pf mountain, sea, legend, history. music, and more: County Down, Northern Ireland #travel perceptivetravel.com/blog/2026/03...

Sunday Sessions: a song of courage, creativity, resilience and wild flowers

Courage, resilience, creativity...and 💐☘️ wild flowers kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...

Northern Ireland: 4 Songs To Help You Understand Northern Ireland: a land of legend and of history, of welcome and exploration. Four songs and a bit of reflection to help you understand travels in the North.

Northern Ireland: songs to help you understand from @caradillonsings.bsky.social @cathieryan.bsky.social &more #creativity #history @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #travel perceptivetravel.com/blog/2022/05...

Winter Holiday Gift Ideas: 2 Great Books + Bonus Ideas Winter holiday gift Ideas: two very different books plus links to more of our stories guiding you to great books that will take you traveling

I wrote about these books as winter holiday gifts; they make good reading just now as well. Revisit The West Wing series and see Northern Ireland through a musician's memories; bonus idea is 4 books w/ differing aspects of hope perceptivetravel.com/blog/2024/11...

Highland Games and Gatherings: 11 Things To Discover Scotland's Highland games and gatherings: What are they? Why might you want to attend? Are they only in Scotland? A guide to all that and more

It's getting to be time for Highland Games & Gatherings, in #Scotland & elsewhere. Ideas on how & why to attend --> #sports #travel #history perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/05...

I always vote early. I pick a convenient day, & give myself time to review a sample ballot online first. Too many Election Day horror stories (esp. long lines) here in Texas for me to trust that day-of option. If there's bad weather or some kind of glitch during early voting, I still have ... 1/2

Those are among the reasons I get a vote by mail ballot, and walk it over to the courthouse and hand it in during early voting (& my actual precinct is way far from where I live in a not so safe neighborhood). Hope I'll still be able to do that.

I went a bit overboard taking #PHOTOS of the last night's #Sahara sunset! So, here's another ... It was lovely of the egret to come out for a little night fishing, exactly as I started taking snaps. I did have a heck of a time keeping all those horizontals straight tho! #NatureIsMagic #photographs

Brunch time? Nap time? In any case, it’s always time for a thread of great public scholarship! Please share if you’re able. 🗃️ @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Fiddle, Flute, Guitar: 3 Ways To Explore Ireland Fiddle, flute, guitar: each plays a part in the sound of Ireland. Ideas on why to listen and who to listen for. Explore Ireland even at distance.

Explore ☘️ Ireland through the work if musicians🎶 on fiddle, flute, guitar #creativity #trave l perceptivetravel.com/blog/2020/08...

Wild Atlantic Way: Explore Ireland's West Online Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way: adventure, community, story, music, nature, history, and more. Explore all this online; prepare for visiting in person

Explore the west of #Ireland☘️ online: plan, remember, dream #WildAtlanticWay @wildatlanticway.bsky.social #travel perceptivetravel.com/blog/2020/06...

Ireland by Podcast: 4 of the Best Ireland by podcast: language, politics, music, and history each center 4 of the best Irish podcasts; the wider subject for all of them, though, is community

Ireland by ☘️🎤 podcast: 4 of the best #StPatricksDay #creativity perceptivetravel.com/blog/2020/03...

National Gallery of Ireland: 3 Top Reasons to Visit Three top reasons to visit the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, whether art is top of your interests or no. Creativity, family, history -- and shopping too.

> @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social : great reasons to visit even if #art is not your top interest. Story at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #creativity #Ireland perceptivetravel.com/blog/2023/04...

Ireland, Poetry, Story: Seamus Heaney Listen Now Again in Dublin Lfe, work, and creativity of Seamus Heaney explored in an exhibit from the National Library of Ireland at Bank of Ireland Cultural & Heritage Centre

As you anticipate the @nlireland.bsky.social virtual tour of Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again exhibit on 18 March, have a bit of a taster in this story perceptivetravel.com/blog/2019/01...

woman at laptop wearing headphones

Join our exhibition guides for an online tour of #SeamusHeaney: Listen Now Again

📅 Weds 18 March, 1pm:
https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/online-tour-seamus-heaney-listen-now-again-33

Explore the highlights of Heaney's archive, from his rural origins through to his remarkable career as a poet.

Sunday Sessions: Wild Mountainside Wild mountainside.

A song of courage, love, and more... kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...

Sunday Sessions: Keep it in MInd Rani Arbo had been driving her then young son to school.

Keep it in mind... kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...

They do host a lot of live performances, and the whole soundtrack played over speakers is Austin based artists, of all sorts of genres

House Sparrow perched on a branch

“It gives me an enormous sense of wellbeing
And then I’m happy for the rest of the day, safe in the knowledge their will always be a bit of my heart devoted to it”
#birds #HouseSparrow

Have you been to Austin's airport, Andy? Only local musicians (many have national/international reputations as well) played there. At times, I hear the voices of friends, which I enjoy...

‘My passport’s green’ | Seamus Heaney and Ireland In Celebration of St. Patrick’s Day

‘My passport’s green’ | #SeamusHeaney & Ireland ☘️

#StPatricksDay tour tracing Heaney’s journey — from Bellaghy to Wicklow and Sandymount Strand — and the landscapes that shaped his poetry.

📅 Mon, 16 March, 2pm: https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/my-passports-green-seamus-heaney-and-ireland

Evening views of Bamburgh beach and castle from across the rocks. Partially cloudy sky gave some muted sunlight colours in the clouds

Evening stroll and dog walk at Bamburgh Beach, Northumberland. Started off relatively cloudy but the clouds started to break up a little aand give some lovely soft light in the sky across the beach and rocks. A worthwhile wander.

#Northumberland
#sunset
#uk
#evening
#Castle

Sunday Sessions: Walk by the Water Is there a place where you take time to connect with the natural world?

Finding peace in a walk by the water in #Ireland, through a song from Aoife Scott kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...

Harps in Ireland: 3 Musicians to Discover Music is a deep part of life and history in Ireland.. It makes sense then that a well known symbol of the country is a musical instrument: the harp.

The harp is 🎶☘️ Ireland's national symbol & part of its music scene as well. Learn about 3 contemporary players as #StPatricksDay draws near perceptivetravel.com/blog/2021/03...

At last, an Oscar for the people who decide who gets to star For the first time in the history of the Academy Awards, the people responsible for casting movies will be honored at the Oscars ceremony. There are five nominees in the inaugural achievement in casting category.

For the first time in the history of the Academy Awards, the people responsible for casting movies will be honored at the Oscars ceremony. There are five nominees in the inaugural achievement in casting category.

Delighted to speak w host Tarik Robinson of CBC Radio One Key of A (Alberta) about my new album Hardscrabble Hope this week. The interview will air Sat, Mar 7, 2026, on your real FM Radio at 4pm MST; on-demand at: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

I'll not be there to stop by, but wishing you a great time.