This summer has been a memorable one for Chicago Scots President and CEO, Gus Noble, filled with celebrations and sorrows. Just a few weeks before heading overseas to be among those honored as an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE), Noble’s father, Bob, 80, passed away June 11 back in… Continue Reading
For Bloomsday, Best Fest Buddy Tom and I broke out the kilts last Friday to hit the Chicago Scots Scottish Festival and Highland Games in Itasca. Bloomsday is a very Irish lit kind of day. But marking the June 16 in 1904 that James Joyce set Ulysses at a Scottish fest, you say? It’s… Continue Reading
It’s already been a week since the Scottish Festival and Highland Games in Itasca – and a few days longer still since Bloomsday. You know Bloomsday. July 16, 1904, the day on which James Joyce sets “Ulysses”, which was published in 1922. You’re reading an Irish blog. You should know that! Right? Wasn’t Paul… Continue Reading