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joedonnellan.com
by Joe Donnellan
Irishman in the US just reading out his blog posts that try to make sense of his new life and unravel the childhood he left behind.
Episodes
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Schillaci
Subscribe to the audio blog on Spotify | YouTube | Apple Seamus sat at the table, leaning forward, cereal box in one hand and his spoon moving methodically from his bowl of Corn Flakes to his constantly accepting gob. He was ferociously consuming the ingredients that were printed on the back of…
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The Rat Bastard
Subscribe to the audio blog on Spotify I glared down at my empty piece of paper. Maybe empty was the wrong word. Quiet, it was a quiet piece of paper, as quiet as the room in which I now sat. The mood, the humor, the sense of any frivolity had been sucked clean out of... The post The Rat Bastard...
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Audio Blog | Intro
Spotify | YouTube Hello, my name is Joe Donnellan, and welcome to the introductory episode of my audio blog. I actually invented the concept of an audio blog just last week but then I Googled it and realized I was not the first. Think of this as a mini podcast but without any banter whatsoever.…
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I Ran Away From Home
Subscribe to the audio blog on Spotify | YouTube | Apple I was the rural 90s Ireland version of Michael Bluth when I was a child. I never uttered his famous words “I’m done with this family,” but during my childhood, I walked out of the homestead with no intention of returning more times than I...
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Cheating on Ireland
Subscribe to the audio blog on Spotify | YouTube | Apple While on a late evening chocolate-biscuit-run (that’s picking up biscuits to accompany a cuppa, rather than knocking out a quick 5k to offset calories from previously consumed biscuits) to our local grocery store recently, I picked up a…
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Kampala, Uganda | Volunteer Trip
2025 update: I went on a volunteer trip to Kampala in 2012 with a non-profit called Project Have Hope. Christina had previously interned there and I ended up becoming the bookkeeper for the following 12 years. They still do great work in the Acholi Quarter in Kampala and it is a testament to the...
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Everyone Has A Story
The first six months I spent in America made me a bit of a recluse. I find this funny because I lived out in the countryside on a farm in the West of Ireland for the first 23 odd years of my life. I had to come to a beautiful, leafy suburb of one of... The post Everyone Has A Story appeared first...
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Waffles 2012
When an Irish man says goodbye to his native shores and dives head first into the international community, he does so to gain new experiences, to meet interesting people, try foods that are not popular in his home country, and drink exciting beers. He attempts to soak in the culture of the place…
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Paddy’s Day
Follow the audio blog in Spotify This is a rather tongue-in-cheek article not intended to personally offend you if you are of Irish heritage and do know that it is not Patty’s Day. I don’t hate America as many people suggest. This holiday just brings out the scrooge in me. Dear America, First of...
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Oxegen Festival Survival Guide
Follow the audio blog in Spotify This post was originally written for a competition in Hotpress Magazine. I was a runner up – along with 15 others behind the 4 winners – and was published in the magazine. We got to go up to Dublin for my prize. I’m pretty sure my parents were away... The post...
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