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Football is soccer in the US. It’s March Madness, OSU is in Lexington and Nationwide Arena is hosting basketball teams from around the US but here I am on 3-16-2007 trying to figure out who the Hibernain Football Club is? Where the Hibernian Football Club is?

A Scottish blog, linked to my blog yesterday about Central Ohio Celtic Pubs and to a blog about ‘football” Hibeesbounce entry in a blog about a soccer team called the Hibernian F.C.

F.C. means football club? European football club is soccer… I assumed it was an Irish soccer club because I thought Hibernian meant Irish.. and it turns out it does. Or did in 1875 when the Hibernian F.C. was established in Edinburgh Scotland by Irish immigrants to Scotland.

And looking at the Scottish Blogh* I am confused by entries from the future.. 11-3-2007, 8-3-2007… how could there be entries from November and August? Then I remember..

I know Ireland from Scotland but I get Scottish and Irish confused, if that makes any sense. Maybe I knew before that Galloway on the westside of Columbus was named after a place in Scotland not a place in Ireland. Maybe now that I’m bloghing (*blogh sounds kinda Gaelic when you write it that way… I was looking for Dublin Ohio blogs and found a blog called Barbara’s Bleeuugh… in Dublin Ireland ) committing that Galloway is named after a place in Scotland to writing may help me remember. Next year. I am really only Irish in March… well and in August for the Dublin Ohio Irish festival…. I just have an Irish name and an Irish face.

Galway is in Ireland. Galloway is in Scotland. I could be mistaken but I think both are on the west coasts of their respective islands…

I have enough trouble with US geography… but I do pretty good around Central Ohio. Galloway is /was a village west of Columbus. The most famous resident was John W. Galbreath. The most famous place in Galloway is Darby Dan Farms. Most of the Galloway zip code, 43119 is in the city of Columbus now or rural areas on the west side of Franklin County. Maybe I will remember now that Galloway is Scottish … now that I am bloghing about it.

It seems the Hibernian F.C. has a very important game on Sunday.

I found an Irish blogh ‘an seanchai’ that says:

“Blogh is the Gaelic word for a snippet of information, an anecdote or a vignette. In techie Gaelic, blogh is the word for a fragment of data on a hard drive.”

Name change… this is Columbus Best Blogh for a day or two… until St. Patrick’s Day is over and the Hibernian F.C. has won their match Sunday…..

Sellsius° Blog had a photo of Dan Donnelly’s arm on their site last year. Just Dan Donnelly’s arm. It’s mummified.

Dan Donnelly was a boxer. I guess he had a great arm?

The Irish Examiner an American Irish Newspaper shared these lyrics about Dan Donnelly’s arm when it was attached to the rest of him:

“Come all ye true born Irishmen
And listen to me song
And hould your wrist and clench your fist,
For that won’t take ye long

So here’s to Dan, our noblest son,
No other need him dare,
For today he made the English run
On the Curragh of Kildare.”

Sellsius° Blog’s Legendary Boxer’s Arm Arrives in New York, Alone

Dan’s arm can be seen in a glass case in The Hideout Bar in Kilcullen, Co. Kildare. What does all that have to do with Central Ohio Irish Pubs? Nothing.

Central Ohio Irish Pubs

P.K. O’Ryans

Claddagh Irish Pubs

Columbus, OH - Downtown
585 S. Front St.
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: (614) 224-1560
Fax: (614) 224-1595

Columbus, OH - Polaris Parkway
8745 Sancus Blvd
Columbus, Ohio 43240
Phone: (614) 885-0100
Fax: (614) 885-0957

Fado Irish Pub

Tommy Keegan’s in the Brewery District

Brian Boru’s - In the Short North
Irish Pub, spirits
647 North High Street 221-1250

see comment… thanks Walker Evans (what a cool name)

Byrne’s Pub

1248 W 3rd Ave
Columbus, OH 43212
(614) 486-4722

Brazenhead in Grandview
1027 West Fifth Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43212
614-737-3738

Brazenhead in Dublin
56 North High St. Dublin, Ohio 43017
614-792-3738

Brazenhead is based on a pub in Limerick?

Brazenhead Irish Pub - Dublin
“Why the name Brazenhead, you ask? Well although the story is unreliable, it is likely that the name of the original bar was derived from another tavern in Limerick called “At The Sign of The Brazen Head”, so named for a red headed girl who watched the siege of Limerick from the same spot many years before.” She lost her head?

G rated St. Patricks’s Day I have Limerick’s writtten by Central Ohio kids for the Columbus Dispatch on Discover Columbus…

There are mainly two Irish celebrations in Central Ohio… the Shamrock Club’s Columbus celebration and the City of Dublin’s.

Columbus St. Patrick Day’s parade and the Irish Family Reunion are on March 17th no matter what day of the week St. Patrick’s Day falls on. The Dublin celebration is on the weekend.

Choices have to be made when St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Saturday.

The original Wendy’s Restaurant in downtown Columbus is closing, today. Dave Thomas started the restaurant at 257 E. Broad Street in 1969.

According to Columbus Business First article writtten by Saleha N. Ghani, founder Dave Thomas would understand as sales are half that of a suburban location.

With limited parking, the building at 257 E. Broad needed work and there was no way to add a drive through.

“Memorabilia at the store will go to Wendy’s headquarters in Dublin, including the strands of colorful beads that hung in many early stores and the mementos from 1984 ads with little old lady Clara Peller’s “Where’s the Beef?” a phrase appropriated by Democrat Walter Mondale in that year’s presidential primary. ” according to an article in the Columbus Dispatch entitled;

Farewell, 257
“Wendy’s chain thrives, but closing of original restaurant provokes sadness”

Funny I remember the ads but I don’t remember the phrase being used by a political campaign….

Business has been brisk at the original Wendy’s this week with people returning to a Columbus landmark for old times sake.

We have already had thunderstorms today. So hopefully this will count as March coming in like a lion and it will go out like a lamb. Happy March First!

Columbus Blogger, writer, poet Steve Kuusisto was recently featured on NPR on All Things Considered Listen to NPR from Steven’s Blog Planet of the Blind:

“The Day the Wind Lured Me to Walk Into Traffic“ about a windy spring day in New York City…. Kuusisto’s new book, ‘Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening’ is described: “Blind people are not casual listeners. Blind since birth, Stephen Kuusisto recounts with a poet’s sense of detail the surprise that comes when we are actively listening to our surroundings. There is an art to eavesdropping.”

I heard of Steven’s NPR appearance thanks to Connie Kuusisto’s Home Inventory blog which is in my Columbus Blogroll here… oops Connie’s Blog must be in the Discover Columbus Blogroll not here… but I have added her blog here to the Columbus Blogroll. I’m not a poet, writer just an ordinary blogger and real estate licensee and as such I gotta leave an HER Real Living polka dot until I can figure out how to put one in my right column…

Listen for the thunder and rain today.. and throughout March. For me it is better than snow…lets get that stormy weather out of the way and get on with a nice, warm, gentle spring.