Today, I had the wonderful opportunity to get a personal tour of the Armagh Cider Company by one of the owners, Philip Troughton. While the Troughton family business has been growing apples since 1898, they only began commercially producing cider in 2006. While we managed to get lost on our way to the apple orchard, […]
Today I had the incredible opportunity to visit ‘Armagh Cider Company’, a unique bottling operation just down Drumnasoo Rd. in Portadown, Co. Armagh. The Armagh Cider Co. has been on the same land in 1898, run by the same family, but only just started producing cider (hard and juice-type) in 2006. The entire process ‘from […]
For my final project for the class, I decided to write about the local cuisine in Armagh. We stumbled upon the amazing place that was The Armagh Cider Apple Company. I don’t want to give away many details, since I’m doing my story on them, but I’ll give you the overview of our visit. When […]
Well, that escalated quickly. No, I am not referring to the horrid World Cup match last night, instead I’m talking about my title for this post. Regionalism sure is a strange combination with ice cream but I’m almost certain that you the reader immediately approved of the post a bit more. What I’m getting at is […]
Humans like to categorize everything, including themselves. As others have said, we like to feel like we belong but also like we’re distinct from other individuals or groups of people. Many people i know take pride in being “different” from others. However, I do think that globalization is taking away a lot of the unique […]
I think that a lot of smaller communities are currently suffering culturally from globalization all around the world. I see it all the time in the towns I visit in the United States. People are losing their sense of community, local identity, and the aspects that make them unique. It could be seen as a […]
When we were asked to write about regionalism, I had a hard time deciding what to discuss. But then, I realized that regionalism is a huge part of my life. I am extremely proud of where I come from, which is a small town outside of Chicago, Illinois. And, I am very proud to be […]
Tap. Tap. Tap. A sound eerie, haunting in the night that harkens the death of someone dear. Such is the tradition surrounding the deathwatch. When a family member was on the sick bed often another would sit by their side the night through and a rhythmic tapping in the night would foretell the death of […]
Regional identity can be both a diverse and sore subject, depending on where you are and whom you are asking. Northern Ireland specifically has a history of violent protests over the fear of them losing their own regional identity, and for the freedom of deciding what that identity was. While we are in the midst […]
Here on this lush island, the parameters of locality seem smaller; each town displays its individual personality. Perhaps identity shifts between villages, across fields and through streams, haystacks and the boughs of oak trees. Reach the next municipality and, like birds, the townspeople announce their territories: Armagh, here! Portadown,here! Lurgan, here! “Landscape doesn’t have an […]
