Things You Love About Wexford......

Ledger

I saw this over in the waterford forum and thought i was a really great idea. Seemed to cheer people up a bit.


I'll start things off:

Sittin in the car at the hook on a windy day.
Fishing at Slade
Learning to drive on Duncannon beach
The Heritege park (really is a great day out)
Booley Bay on a warm summer's day
Walking over south street in Ross on christmas eve bumping into friends
Chips from The Penguin on a saturday


That's just a few lets keep the ball rolling and try to promote our beautiful county.

RedXIV

reading in the junior cert history book

The English landed at Dublin, and had no difficulty in subduing it. They headed south, with Wicklow and Carlow providing no difficulty. But Wexford was a different story....

When the teacher read that, it was the first time everyone the class shut up, looked around an nodding in satisfaction that our forefathers were tough B*****ds

Cantona's Collars

Still being proud of our All Ireland win in '96.

Telling people from the Wesht that you're from the Sunny South East and it's like living in Spain.:)

Having some of the best beaches in the country on our doorstep.

Big Vern

The Beaches...
Went for a walk on Blackhall Strand, down near Bannow at the weekend. Never there before, what a beautiful place....lovely sunny day as well:D

oldyouth

2 of the happiest days in my life happened in Wexford, 11/7/88 and 28/4/92. Nothing has come close since.

foolelle

fort mountain

Jesus Wept

It's so near Waterford.

castletownman

The camaderie when meeting other people from Wexford in Dublin (Coppers, Quinns, etc) or elsewhere in the country
The room-silencing renditions of Boolavogue, Cuchalainns Son, Purple and Gold at dinner-dances, weddings etc....
Walks down the Wexford Prom on a summers day (being from Gorey it's a rare joy for me)
My local beaches on a summers day
The sense of community in Gorey during Christmas or St.Patrick's Day
The sense of relief of seeing the "Welcome to Wexford" sign after a long journey home

castletownman

Oh yeah and our proud history

Ledger

not having to go through Gorey anymore. . . . . . . . . . . .

Murtinho

Ledger wrote: »

not having to go through Gorey anymore. . . . . . . . . . . .

patff

wine
the rolling stones
ernest hemingway
man utd
Shameless
thegoalposts.com
secularism
some more wine

Queen-Mise

B-Young (sp) and book shop also. Not in wexford often so thats it.

Gregsor

As a more than frequent visitor for 25 years-

Watching the ferries docking at Rosslare.
Getting the bejaysus blown out of you at Kilmore Quay on an Autumns day.
The coast appearing as you come down the Ferrycarrig hill
Some of the best weather in the land,seriously!
Have a great Tesco Extra,but now we have our own.
Great genuine friendly people

Thats only a few,it's late

bin laden

The road out of it, preferably the one going back to Dublin

Cantona's Collars

bin laden wrote: »

The road out of it, preferably the one going back to Dublin

Bye bye,miss you already-not.

Gregsor

bin laden wrote: »

The road out of it, preferably the one going back to Dublin

What a nice contribution,well done :rolleyes:.

Willam Barker

The as my wife said, 'ridiculously pretty countryside' green fields, rolling hils with the Blackstairs off in the background.

The Slaney Valley on the road to Bunclody or down around Killurin, Bellvue.

Climbing Vinegar Hill on the 21st of June or there abouts and literally feeling the history and knowing my forefathers once stood on this and other hills across Wexford and fought for the freedom of their families and their country.

The Hook Head, the little almost private coves and beaches, the rocks around the lighthouse, the sense of walking in an ancient place and seeing where the English first landed and asking 'what if'

The beaches which seem to go on forever, preferably in the evening or winter time.

Summer evenings walking or driving along the country roads and the world just seeming 'right'

The ripening of the corn and the golden landscape, magic.

The Stawberry sellers and Strawberries themselves.

Our history, especially 1798, a people united 'a risen people' and feeling part of it, knowing its part of who I am.

The purple and gold, just seeing it fly or on a jersey, especially in Dublin

Wexford Hurling, the image of a great man like Nicky Rackard literally carrying a county from obscurity and into the hearts of nearly every person in Ireland. A pride that we are still standard bearers for the greatest game, with its 2000 year history, know to man.

Genuine people, gentle people.

WexfordWarrior

walking down the main street at night... shops closed but street lights on ... walking past the bull ring and looking at the pikeman .... popping into mackens and sitting in the window with a pint of guinness and watching the world go by after a hard days work ...

driving along the coastline from the heritage park towards glynn barntown...beautiful stretch of road and scenery...trees overlapping the road on one side..the river flowing quietly on the other and the mountainous hills and forest the other side of the river rounded off with a historic castle at ferrycarrig...

the forest in the raven in summer, walking along in your shorts ands t shirt and then along the sandy coastline in curracloe beach.. has to be one of the most beautiful in the world.... to watch horses running by and people walking their dogs, people relaxing and playing ...some just soaking up the sun or reading...

driving past devereux's at night and seeing the friary in front of you..with its brilliant architecture like somthing from a movie... down the small side street past rowe street church and knowing the opera house is hidden away on that small unassuming streetway....

going to the sky and the ground for pints on monday, a trad session and listening to the old people sing song , complete silence and respect for it and then into the premier for a kiddy box or a rissole...

and most of all... just the people in general... no bull****, no levels of self importance , a friendly warm howaya hun walking down the street or a "yuuuuuuuuuuuup" from one of the boys .... aaahhhh wexford....

i have the pleasure of livin on the quay and in the morning time you see the sun rise, the orange pink and yellow sky beams down on the fishing boats and glistens along the pier ... and in the distance the raven point... i wouldnt swop it for the world !

and to echo the previous post... to see the Hurlers doing well and hearing the purple and gold sung still stirs pride and emotion whenever i hear it... a small place, a small population but we've had a massive impact on the world...

JFK,JOHN BARRY,... Big Jem Roche Heavyweight Boxer, actors,writers musicians.... hell even Ned Kelly (famous outlaw) had wexford roots ...an industrious people indeed....

Willam Barker

Forgot to mention the fact that we have the greatest county songs in Ireland:
Boolavogue
Boys of Wexford
Kelly the Boy from Killane

and of course the best GAA song ever....'Dancing at the Crossroads' supporters the length and breadth of Ireland envy us these riches...

Judgement Day

Willam Barker wrote: »

Forgot to mention the fact that we have the greatest county songs in Ireland:
Boolavogue
Boys of Wexford
Kelly the Boy from Killane

and of course the best GAA song ever....'Dancing at the Crossroads' supporters the length and breadth of Ireland envy us these riches...

You forgot to mention the comely maidens dancing at the crossroads. :rolleyes: By the way in an historical context you have an interesting username - is it your real name?

mcgarrett

WexfordWarrior wrote: »

JFK,JOHN BARRY,... Big Jem Roche Heavyweight Boxer, actors,writers musicians.... hell even Ned Kelly (famous outlaw) had wexford roots ...an industrious people indeed....

Great post, well written and a lot of my own experiences in there.

On the famous people bit, remember being told that Buffalo Bills father was born and reared in King St.

foolelle

mcgarrett wrote: »

Great post, well written and a lot of my own experiences in there.

On the famous people bit, remember being told that Buffalo Bills father was born and reared in King St.

heard that recently - anyone got any info?

McLoughlin

mcgarrett wrote: »

Great post, well written and a lot of my own experiences in there.

On the famous people bit, remember being told that Buffalo Bills father was born and reared in King St.

Buffalo Bill has no connection with wexford.

WexfordWarrior

i also heard the Vigelante based on Zorro was meant to be from rocklands ! hahaha ... sounds ridiculous doesnt it ? who knows...

mcgarrett

McLoughlin wrote: »

Buffalo Bill has no connection with wexford.

So no chance his Da played with the harriers

gollywog

bin laden wrote: »

The road out of it, preferably the one going back to Dublin

**** URSELF!

St Senan

bin laden wrote: »

The road out of it, preferably the one going back to Dublin

A typical Weekender Dubshie. :rolleyes:

mdwexford

Stores, thats it.

Noffles

Wexford town seems grand enough I suppose... anywhere else is shocking and under developed....

But that's not the topic so I'll shush!

WexfordWarrior

im sure whoever wrote "the road to dublin" is probably young 18-25 and has an identity crisis! thinks being in dublin is cool and trendy and doesnt see any goodness in wexford. If its that persons native county or evne worse town he should be ashamed of himself...but somthing which i guess he may discover as he or she gets older....

no doubt he is up in dublin speaking with a dublin twang, visiting the local trendy bars and talking smack about how its great "up in the blaydin sccchmoke maaan".

well the truth is pal..nobody will accept you up in dublin.. your always ging to be a culchie and thats even including a full blown migration to a thick inner city dublin accent... you see the real story is youll be from wexford all your life and it will make you look like an even bigger tit to both them and wexicans ... so youll be caught between being a dublin wannabe in dublin and just another idiot with an identity crisis in wexford who had no respect for where he was from and lived a lie all his/her life !

of course you could be just a random poster and trying to wind everybody up or is actually from dublin and moved to wexford under circumstances beyond your control and is actually a native of the pale which means my post on you specifically is irrelevant!

anyway wexford town is a great place, great people and we have the best of everything.... you want shopping we got it, you wanna go out to good pubs and clubs we got it...you want sandy beaches we got it, you want the best of nature, we got it, best opera house in ireland? we got it!!! ...... dublin is only 1hr 20mins up the road now,cork 2 hours, ferry at rosslare to europe or Britain for a change of scenery and we have rissoles and maggie hurley so if you dont like it we dont want your likes here anyway ! BYE BYE !