@Ireland Curator: Mark O'Brien

@len_patrick thanks. Off home now to @obrienmark

@EricaSuperba good thing. I finished here now heading back to @obrienmark

@aiden_lacey thank you

And a great big thanks to all who took the time this week to join in. For me home is where we all are......

Thanks to @worldirish for letting me be part of this great project

It has been a great honour and I would love to invite you all back to mine @obrienmark to keep on chatting

Ok that's just about me done with. Maoiliosa Kiely @maoiliosak will be curating this from tomorrow. keep the great conversations going

@FizaIsa thank you

@FizaIsa :)

It has been an honour to curate here for the week. I will be moving back to my home @obrienmark later this evening. Youre all invited over

Is home where you feel most comfortable?

An urge that is woven into the Irish DNA

Connection between 5 year old singing in kitchen to Colm Wilkinson in Les Mis to Luke Kelly and to Bono is the urge to express and share

From professional to amateur to kids and back again. It's all on our stages and we all want to watch. Pride

Now we have Blues Brothers. 7 of them

'You've got a friend in me' sung from the stage. Packed house. You cant beat a kids variety show

@bigrig480 great photo

@ConorPDunne love the stillness and the beauty there

@lainibop Galway a great city. Love the power of the corroborating river through the town

@ninaangelica77 theyre deadly

8 year old delivered to the stage door

@scarie I remember first time there on school tour many moons ago. Great spot

@bigrig480 that is a stunning picture

A dedication to this week and next youtu.be/KqcdTinjKvA

@SandraOCallagh history and peace two fantastic words

@davidmaybury sounds interesting. Love the idea that we want to hear how something happens rather than what happens

Lets leave the week with a place you would bring a visitor to Ireland, spectacular, old, new, big or small. #home

@vinniequinn @joe8908 @Achill_Henge Just saw this now, tell me more

@jmccdub thanks for that looks great

Tales of theatre floating around @axisBallymun

Back online and on my last day curating this brilliant feed. Let's chat about home

100 American, Canadian, and Irish people sit down for brunch. Sharing, awarding, congratulating. A week of homemaking pic.twitter.com/5JuT2iZA

What a morning. The prizes are all given and the goodbyes being said. Big thanks to all staff @axisBallymun pic.twitter.com/6SygQCW7

@shanda1701 Luke Kelly's version is incredible

@shanda1701 One of my favourites

@GalantaEvents @axisBallymun for last night of Acting Irish International Theatre festival

There was lots of sport yesterday and lots of winners but only one World Champion @ktboxing

@donegalgatherin no can do I'm afraid hope it goes well

@GalantaEvents absolutely

The octanauts are at war with Fireman Sam as part of the Birthday opening ceremony

@WeAreFilipinos thank you very much will pass it on

Lots of Americans and Canadians heading home or heading on for holidays in Ireland today. Great singing and storytelling session last night

Morning all. My last day curating this account. Off to awards brunch for #AIITF soon @axisBallymun

@saltandsparkle thanks. I have really enjoyed doing this. I back @obrienmark from tomorrow

@Ziggystarduster great age

@patquirke will do and will try not to

@AidanOBoyle :)

The littlest man is 4 today

@NiamhNic aw shucks

@turtlemull A great song and as sung by Luke Kelly it is a thing of beauty

@garethoconnor My pleasure. Some evening of sport

@saltandsparkle :)

I've just sang Raglan Road, listened to Dylan, and drove home tired but happy. Sharing

@ScottArbs ok you win :)

@VibrantIreland gorgeous indeed

Beautiful sky over Ballymun tonight. What's it like where you are? pic.twitter.com/8I1wInHH

@daveleavy1 :)

or maybe not #nosuchthingaskarma

United lose the Premiership to two goals in injury time and Bayern Munich look like they going to win Champions League. Gotta love Karma

@eoinbutler Only following it on Guardian website and twitter but has that feel off it

@fhayesmccoy :)

@daveleavy1 Just about nails it I think

@walkcork Ah but as long as the batch is alright

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis!

The sun has got it's hat on, hip hip hip hooray

@fhayesmccoy Beautifully put

@Britt_W Maybe it's all in the questionning..

Maybe that's it... Home is the feeling of being part of something

The live nature of sport & theatre is the attraction for me. The feeling of being part of something.

@refaymatzion You're contributing now. Good to say hello :)

@eilisnic :)

Well Well that's it Rochester are onstage with Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill. And I just recieved a gift of a festival hat. :)

Congrats to Leinster

Not going to see any of the sport this evening. Radio and twitterfeeds for me

@belindamckeon No escaping the Sawdoctors

Leinster seem to be doing well. Timeline a deluge of Rugby at moment. Just finished a nice pizza

@meganspecia yes that coupled with a few days in March makes it 55 hours and 4 seconds of summer. Yippee

@meganspecia where where where where where?

@Smartheat Midlands smells of turf to me, love it also

Mosconis, Dry Rain, the Flood, Cinderella Rockafellas, My left Foot, The Miracle, Square One, St.Stephens' Night out #hometownmemories

@Smartheat you can't beat a view of the sea

Cliff walk, Boatbells chiming in Harbour, Duffs, Bray Head Hotel, the cove, John's Stall, Second hand bookshop, Swans #hometownmemories

Cliff walk to Greystones, Boatbells chiming in Harbour, Duffs, Bray Head Hotel, the cove, John's Stall, Second hand bookshop, #braymemories

Off to collect my suit

Getting geared up for awards brunch tomorrow @axisBallymun and last show tonight from Rochester

This week is after going so fast. Just over a day left for me here. Fascinating conversations, great insights.

@donnacadhob less the second time than the first :) too much bull

@davidmaybury send congrats from all @axisBallymun to them

@davidmaybury great school, great library and great openness to develop arts projects

@irish251 ye kids love the air show. Remember the first ever one, showing my age

@travors a new Olympic sport when we host

@Smartheat :)

@mmeller good luck in your search

@donnacadhob been in Kilmallock mart a few times

@irish251 oops sorry bout that. I remember festivals with the street concerts on main street

@elizafoxxx great mix of culture, history and fun

@irish251 any great bray memories?

@EricaSuperba know it well

@IrishBerliner it is indeed

@JJT that's brilliant. Must have been wonderful surprise

@travors when in fact they are jumping to avoid incoming water bombs

@elizafoxxx not much to miss weather wise today. Berlin is a great city

@albertmbaker wow great story. Love when half a world makes no difference to the connections

@GLarAuna thanks :)

@TaxguyMN hope you do

Celebrating World Food Day pic.twitter.com/uGV3txuY

@IrishBerliner thanks for that. Eloquent as always. Hope all well in Berlin

@elizafoxxx here feels like being in a lake weather

@meganspecia We're really trying :)

@sdempsey :)

@sdempsey having been at three childbirths I can't fathom what use a bagel might be. Except to throw at somebody maybe

@OgaEva Emm would need to get verification on that :)

@hectoron2fm having a chat over here about #smallworld stories. Those random, mad, coincidences, meetings that blow your mind. Any examples?

How were bagels invented? #lunchtimequestions

Bray Co.Wicklow. My Hometown. Where's yours? youtube.com/watch?v=aLSFcF…

Speaking of Home all week. Bray in Co.wicklow my hometown. Any more Brayheads out there this morning should be very proud of @ktboxing

@ktboxing Well done Katie & all your team. Pride doesn't begin to describe it. And a Bray woman as well, from one darglesider to another :)

@conor_pope #chillaxed grrrrr

@neeviefitz National Drawing Day and World food day...interesting combination

You're nicked pic.twitter.com/kD169RTS

Loving the #smallworld stories. World shrinking and brain expanding, keep em coming and spread the word. The world is full of connections

@Holymackers world food day... most excellent... wondering why I've been so hungry all day

@davidmaybury a chapter?

Anyone got any change for the weather meter?

I am now being Captain Haddock seemingly #saturdaykitchen

@corkwan a classic opener :)

@corkwan great story. How did it come up?

@sextonireland Nuts indeed and lots of them

Perils of eating jam toasty while using iPhone. #stickyscreensyndrome

@elfeay everyone else probably does but not alas me

@sextonireland classic

@thewhitmore Howdo. we asking the question today. What is the most coincidental, mad, random, #smallworld story you have. Some great stories

@SamhainNight my brain hurts :)

@brandalisms how did that come up?

@SamhainNight ok great stuff and in 140 characters

@Fearnecotton we asking the question today. What is the most coincidental, mad, random, #smallworld story you have. Some great stories..

@eilisnic how did that come up on conversation?

@elfeay that's incredible ( what's SL?)

@SamhainNight keywords?

It most definitely is... Keep the stories coming youtube.com/watch?v=SFsHSH…

@TheatreLovett do you have any mad #smallworld stories to tell?

@TheatreLovett have a great one :)

Ask whoevers with you about their maddest #smallworld story. You'll be amazed

@fearraigh75 Six degrees of seperation becomes one degree of connection :)

@NonyFitz :)

@fearraigh75 it's amazing the connections we make

@pauljcorcoran deadly

@fearraigh75 how did you discover you were related?

@pauljcorcoran ye I think you're right

@fhayesmccoy wow

@fhayesmccoy ok now that is freaky. Ever find out why?

Are #smallworld happenings an Irish phenomenon or is it because we always strike up conversations and are inquisitive?

@fionndavenport hi hope all is well you must have some #smallworld stories from your travels. Worldshrinking and mindblowing.

@undermeoxter :)

@undermeoxter great story and photos as proof as well. Was it a picture from a production?

@amhaincreations ouch

@scarie A bit? A lot more like. Interested in getting responses to question of small world connections though

@donnacadhob mad

@Jonathanwpurvis no not me but hoping to hear some #smallworld stories

@donnacadhob @barbicancentre did you tell her?

Let's spread the word on this if you at #hype2012 or Heineken cup lets get those stories on here #smallworld

@shaybearshere go hiontach

@sligeach :)

Am asking the question today. what is the most random, freaky, mad, coincidental connection that you have discovered on meeting someone?

@sligeach great one. I'd be looking out for her again

@Sinead_Fox great story. Spread the question would like to get as many as I can today

@Sinead_Fox do we as a race seek to find the connections?

@Daracho excellent

@Claredaisy was talking last night that maybe we more prone to it because we ask the first question

@Claredaisy great start Clare. Do you think it a quintessentially Irish phenomenon?

Pride does not come close to describing ...“@thejournal_ie: Katie Taylor seals fourth world title on the trot in China jrnl.to/J8OVmD”

What is the most coincidental, mad, random, small world meeting that you have ever had?

Trauma of iphone with dead battery and unable to find charger but all is well now

@casabeca couldn't agree more

Ok I didn't mean it you can stop getting heavier now #rain

@CaitrionaW :)

@anniewestdotcom and now you still are :)

This will be in afew minutes heading to my car from @axisballymun ... minus the hat brolly and the dance moves youtu.be/p7QL46cK7B8

@ScottArbs enjoy it :)

@alsiewalsie on top yes

@anniewestdotcom @MiriamAhern @mcculld O yes the pailwiredrierbrie machine.. love it

@anniewestdotcom But you are

Here she comes again youtu.be/g3DgAJwVeVU

@anniewestdotcom gerrupowradat :)

Time to embrace the rain, bring it close, make it feel loved, then maybe it might get lost...

@anniewestdotcom more than welcome and love your work

Ah that makes me feel better youtu.be/UZ8KU0wPE_I

Ok heading out to a soggy M50 in a few minutes

After a week of curating @ireland I am beginning to wonder if home is where the rain is?

@anniewestdotcom not at all, by the mere fact that you have drawn it makes it real. Well at least in my head :)

Penultimate show onstage. What a week. Great hosting all these wonderful people on our stage @axisballymun Sharing, performing and meeting

@ScottArbs you are welcome to all of ours :)

@CaitrionaW No unfortunately not just looking outside at the weather

@Warnermusicirl @djjennygreene @rte2fm Howdo as we try and put the fun into Friday

@Warnermusicirl Great loads of interesting conversations and interesting people.

@weareFrance you missed out your favourite, trains.. Would definitely love to watch a plane or a train reverse parking

@Warnermusicirl Turn your #sadface into a #funface :)

Watching reverse parking can be highly entertaining

@Warnermusicirl Me but not with a #sadface with a #festivalface

Working late this week has introduced me to the perils of late night television

@paulmwatson :)

Drizzle Drizzle Drizzle Drizzle Drizzle Drizzle Drizzle Drizzle Drizzle Drizzle Drizzle Drizzle Drizzle Drizzle Drizzle

@cocamiu No will be watching on TV though

@cocamiu Ok so.Hope you have a great summer wherever you will be :)

TRAFFIC WARNING: A truck carrying toilet seats has overturned on the M50. Gardai say they have nothing to go on @darraghdoyle @kiliandoyle

@TheatreLovett @southbankcentre Hope it goes deadly

@cocamiu How are preperations going for the Euros?

Great excitement in the office today as the awards arrived for The Acting Irish international Theatre festival.

Friday Floor filler youtu.be/etviGf1uWlg

Some Bray Head sounds youtu.be/n3oQgAFBfWU

Friday's back in the day meant that going to the Alternative Disco in Bray Head hotel was getting closer #greattimes Where did you hang out?

Bad quality video recording, Incredible quality song youtu.be/OmEvTa7Npk0

@eilis_boyle again love that tagline ' less moaning more dancing' :)

Was trying to remember name kids TV programme that freaked me out back in the day, found it few weeks ago, stillscary youtu.be/bLpcr7KTi9I

@TarquinDunwoody faceted not fauceted :)

How do you brand something as multifaceted as Ireland?

@patmoroney stop please stop too much sugar :)

@shanda1701 don't know that one..

@Poormanatee :)

@fhayesmccoy Now that is a great answer and a great thing

The Irish soccer song for Euro 2012 is actually very good. An omen perhaps? Italia 90 had some cracking tunes youtu.be/vqzz7B7V2IE

@darraghdoyle @NiamhNic @axisballymun #toomuchsugartooearlyintheday

Even when working on Saturday, Friday has that certain something.

@travors couldn't agree more

@TarquinDunwoody artichokes seem to be the exception

@ZwartblesIE :)

Now we're chatting about water. Bottle v tap

@Smartheat birthday for one of my colleagues and I've had too much sugar

@misterebby great thanks

@bohoe don't think that the case for guy in my company

Green vegetables? Appetising or turn off #lunchtimequestions

Yum 2 pic.twitter.com/Yuc6MXLl

Yum pic.twitter.com/SUASggSv

@misterebby I don't know that one please enlighten

@WeAreFilipinos great musical

Happy Birthday @niamhnic .... One of the best pic.twitter.com/yu6nC7XK

Speaking of Musicals and seeing as it's Friday what are your favourite songs from same. Somewhere from West Side Story is up there for me

Mad weekend ahead. Last show and awards ceremony for Acting Irish festival. Champions league and Heineken Cup finals & 8 year old in musical

Really like Aslan's new single.

@RadioUnplugged YOU BET YA

@TheatreForumIE you bet ya

@brownenutrition absolutely love Flann O'Brien

@DenisMcEvoy Ouch. Optrex please :)

@TarquinDunwoody Plough and The Stars?

@ChristineBohan #keeptalkingbohanitsalwaysinteresting

Just got programme for the @theatreforumie conference in Belfast. Looks great....

@louisemee thanks louise

@conibonjovi Thanks love twitter name by the way

@DenisMcEvoy Now that's a mental image I didn't need

@TarquinDunwoody Why thank you kind sir

@PenTroll Thanks Andy

@DenisMcEvoy Thanks Denis

@Britt_W Thanks

Is it the Eurovision tomorrow?

@patquirke In the midst of a wonderful guitar solo. That segment of music is one of my all time favourites

@Britt_W Nice on from the top of you head and I am really trying to Imagine sun in the sky today

Think this day needs some colour. Lets sing. What's your favourite line from as song?

@thisispopbaby :)

The glamour just after buying an enamel bucket. That and it's Friday I can't cope pic.twitter.com/mCrDNUsB

@thisispopbaby Bon voyage

@AWanderingIrish beautiful book

@ChristianHughes now there's a new one on me

@fboss absolutely that would be great. Also interested in finding out what Home means to people

@fboss thanks for RT

Morning all. Grey day in Ireland. Let's make it brighter. What's your favourite Irish novel of all time and why?

@ninaangelica77 best of luck :)

@2CdnGirlsInEire great description

@shanda1701 excellent

@bonzapies you bet ya

@darraghdoyle sssh

@EannaBrophy thanks for that

Late night TV is a mad place

Home is where I am

@walkcork :)

This land is your land

@ninaangelica77 right back at ye

@caoimhghin77 @axisBallymun for Acting Irish International Theatre Festival

Folks from Belfast, Winnipeg, Dublin, Chicago, Toronto, Rochester, Calgary, Conneticut, Milwaukee meeting, sharing, singing, dancing tonight

Listening to @QVibration sing Just like a woman makes you realise what a great songwriter Dylan is and what a great voice Colm has

@bonzapies absolutely

And this just reminds me of why I'm into music youtu.be/g-w2wgceXUE

Or this from Mr Waits reminds me of Lamplight and Old friends youtu.be/9ZmqbcBsTAw

Ok favourite songs for me are a place called Home. Here's one of mine youtu.be/6SkT6vflu3M

Just met a great friend of my Aunt @axisballymun who came to the show because of connections with Winnipeg after hearing it on Radio. Mad

@bonzapies I really really love that. A fit of giggles to banish homesickness. Bottle it, patent it, you got a fortune

@laura193laura Couldn't agree more Laura

@newzealand bed is a wonderful thing especially on the rare occasion when you wake up and realise you can sleep on

@qvibration will play a few tunes for our guests tonight... excellent

@irishberliner Love to hear your thoughts good sir on what home means to you

@orla_tinsley There's a statement :)

Great quote from Maya Angelou 'I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself' ... What makes it so?

Conversation and the openness required has always interested me. Home to me is a place you can share

Love the fact that every night on @axisballymun stage this week there has been a different set. Great camraderie and dedication from all

@brownenutrition as I get older most things induce sleep :)

Getting near Showtime at the Acting Irish International Theatre festival @axisBallymun pic.twitter.com/O8G6vTeI

@travors ouch

@brownenutrition yes but can also make you very sleepy

@glynes like a wood stove myself but still can't beat the open fire. Even setting it is a great experience

@brownenutrition and did it change when you left school or at weekends?

Was having conversation about open fires v central heating. To me there's no comparison. Open Fire all the way. Must have a fireplace though

@paulmwatson brunch? Tis far from brunch i was reared :)

@GenEmigration Hello there. Hope all is well

@Smartheat Feeding the kids at the optimum time is a most important thing

@travors Granny Smith?

@paulmwatson Oops didnt know I was about to restart something. So in South Africa always at teatime?

Teatime. Chatting earlier when as children we had our big meal of the day, lunchtime or teatime. Seems to be an urban v rural difference

@TarquinDunwoody @penny_ha :)

@monasterium amazing what a typo can do

@helpwithdebt you know I never thought of that

@penny_ha @tarquindunwoody new order. Wow

@TarquinDunwoody @penny_ha that must have been some game :)

@Smartheat medicine wearing off and very thirsty but hanging in there

@carolynUK great spot and great gang in the Playhouse

B

@TarquinDunwoody Yes I know what you mean, really interested in what Danny Boyle does with the opening ceremony

@LucerneBelle :)

@penny_ha archery never got me, I do love a good game of darts though

@cataclysmicha Think it is. Lots of chalk flying in the air

@TarquinDunwoody Ouch. Not a fan then?

@AnseoAMuinteoir You get ya. Katie Taylor is one of our greatest sportspeople of all time. And from Bray

@cataclysmicha The beam in Gymnastics is incredible

The thought of flying into water from such a height at such a speed is truly frightening

So a summer of sport awaits us all. Olympics, Soccer, Rugby. What event do people look forward to in the Olympics? I like the diving

@carolynUK looks wonderful

No better feeling to hear resounding laughter coming from a theatre particularly at twenty past two in the afternoon

Sitting in the green room watching the show on the monitor as the sound of flats being demolished seeps in from outside

The memory wall in @axisBallymun dressing room pic.twitter.com/Jio7XZW3

@carolynUK penistone viaduct?

@ccferrie ye great performance. Don is brilliant

@ccferrie me too, looking forward to seeing it tonight

Lunchtime. The Parting Glass onstage then quick turnaround for The Muesli Belt tonight

@carolynUK @PeopleOfUK That;'s a part of the world I've never been. What type of bridge?

@ccferrie Jealous

@ccferrie Great trips Ciaran, particularly interested in the one in Greece, sounds amazing

thanks for all the remedies. onwards into the day we go. Some interesting journeys being discussed. Love that feeling of waiting for a train

Ok M50 calls

@LynchEddy o dear

@WeAreAustralia @weareaustria tell me more

@PeopleOfUK never done the train journey but been in all those cities

@damoboggler @s_masterson that is hilarious GP in a starlet. Love it

@PeopleOfUK wow how romantic

About to make one of my well worn journeys along the M50 to @axisBallymun

@damoboggler @s_masterson @toromeinstarlet great idea. Any part of the journey that still resonates now

@WeAreAustralia @weareaustria But is there one journey that beats all?

@WeareAustria have never been. Any favourite trips?

@damoboggler @s_masterson Now that sounds like fun. Starlet the car of the gods :)

@damoboggler went for walk last year up over the top of Powerscourt. Amazing

@Smartheat thanks

@mcculld yes for last two days has been happening a lot

@weareFrance Was on a fishing boat going to the Aran Islands on a windy day. Awesome

Let's talk fave journeys today @We_R_Russia @peopleofleeds @tweetweeknyc @tweetweekusa @tweetweeksyria @peopleofuk @wearefiji @weareaustria

@damoboggler now that's a great walk. What views you like so far?

Or the walk from my bedroom door to my bed

I used to love the walk to our corner shop in Bray. Lots of jars of lovely sweets. Also love the stretch of dart between Dalkey and Killiney

After all the talk about airports and trains yesterday. Today I am interested in talking about favourite journeys. Where and Why?

@blathnaidhealy hi blaithnaid hope all well

@weareFrance will start with the tea so

@sothisisliz books do have a tendency to form mounds of rubble as well

@muchachaK true :)

@tisJames morning James hope the day treats you well

Ok looking for remedy for fiery throat as something seems to have taken up resident in the night

Morning all

@dorascuiltravel Oh I feel a debate on best tea coming on :)

@lainibop nice

@MarketaDee enjoy

@beakelleher like it

@MarketaDee hi Marketa. If you haven't read Midnights Children you should give it a go. Exquisite

#staringatmybookshelves

Fairytale of New York by JP Donleavy warrants a reread.

Neil Jordan's Mistaken a quite beautiful novel also. Captures Dublin exquisitely

Love Salman Rushdie's work, particularly Midnights Children, Satanic verses, the ground beneath her feet, lot to say about home

@DavidClinchNews @storyful Not much.

Listening to the radio and reminded of Night Train with Cagney. A truly brilliant radio show on 2FM. Anyone remember what year it finished?

Have just eaten too much too late. I am going to pay

@beakelleher fewer things to distract when we are in transit?

@paulmwatson I'd be in the plain camp, adaptable to any situation and many additions

@saltandsparkle @nonyfitz have seen individual pieces of work but would love to see full collection

@Britt_W Yes but who's counting?

@Duil_ie @IrishArtsCenter Great idea, Beir bua

Mention of tea and the kettle is on

@Greensideupveg Giving me pause for thought tonight. Comes from conversation on here today

@MrGreen0380 Lot in that answer

Just looking around my desk and see the remains of at least 6 cups of tea #thatswhereallthecupsaregone

What defines us when we are between places?

@weareFrance @newzealand There is an amazing soothing sound from trains, great rhythms as well youtu.be/d9zFt6M_GLo

@redmum Bit more heat and stability needed yet :)

@weareFrance Here's to the future so

@TarquinDunwoody @penny_ha Ouch

@MaryM1985 There is something about it, seems to strike a chord

@penny_ha Thanks for that

@penny_ha Flights of fancy :)

@weareFrance Or maybe you can't. I keep thinking of 'All that you can't leave behind' youtu.be/-wfjPmDlCB0

@LucerneBelle Touché

@penny_ha The place of potential fear for me is lift-off and landing once I'm flying I'm fine. Why do I think I'm writing in metaphors :)

@weareFrance I think there's something in this that I'ld like to explore in the context of previous conversations about Home

@penny_ha watching them but not flying in them?

@unakavanagh no all good I think, really enjoying it

@unakavanagh Good luck

@weareFrance Not really and the noise becomes part of it, the getting louder and getting quieter. Exits and entrances

@penny_ha Yes indeed. What do you think it is?

@PeopleOfUK :)

@unakavanagh That's good going. Make sure you leave time for an alert re-read

Watching airplanes makes me think of that place we call home and the distances in between. What defines us when we are in transit?

@weareFrance Not addicted but very relaxing. especially at night, flickering distant lights getting bigger and smaller as they come and go

@PeopleOfUK With you on that one, cornflakes, couple of bananas, pack of mints, half a sandwich and will shortly be seeking out a burger

@SimonDelaneyEsq No bother Simon, hope all is well

I was always amazed when I drove up by airport at number of people parked up watching planes take off and land, Then I tried it myself...

Going down to see a show up, when I get back lets hang out and chat. 'Anyone for the last few choc ices' #soundsofireland

Just felt like hearing this and felt like sharing it with ye...Instant Karma - John lennon: youtu.be/EqP3wT5lpa4

Just listening to Morning Ireland piece on Acting Irish Festival. Cultural tourism in action.

A day of theatre conversations wouldn't be complete for me without music question. What's the best use of a song in a play that you've seen?

@CuratorsMexico not sure what it's been like across the water but here has been colder than usual, rain, hail, sun & that can be every hour

We have Someone Who'll watch over me by Frank McGuinness tonight @axisBallymun as part of acting Irish, I really like this play

My view from where @sweden it is just possible to see IKEA pic.twitter.com/zWogFwYm

@CuratorsMexico Hello Mexico. What's the weather like where you are?

Interested to hear from actors about the favourite part they played and from everyone else about standout performances

Global Tweet up @TweetWeekNYC @TweetweekUSA @TweetWeekSyria @PeopleOfUK @PeopleofLeeds @We_R_Russia @weareFrance @WeAreFiji @WeareAustria

@sweden oops just saw previous tweets. :)

@sweden ?

Howdo, just out of meeting. Planning the biggest breakfast ever seen in @axisballymun Like the responses to what sets Irish Theatre apart

@karenboconnell beautiful part of the world

@gingerbeans Road at the Beckett Centre was superb

@JassByrne Howdo Jas. Still remember your Macbeth in SFX

@beakelleher you know I don't have many regrets but missing this is one

I also interested to find out what you look for in a theatre piece & if there is anything that marks out Irish theatre

@rickoshea :)

@rickoshea missed New Electric Ballroom. Seafarer a great play. Was in Conor's first full play in Dramsoc back in the day. Brilliant writer

@AbbeyTheatre Hi there welcome aboard

@deirdremullen Garry Hynes is a great talent and her work on John B Keane is astounding

Medea with Fiona Shaw @abbeytheatre Giselle by Fabulous Beast, Smycz from Teatr Polski

@karenboconnell One of my favourite plays. Is Muckross Farms in Killarney?

@clockwork_rob Great play. Mark O'Rowe's writing is amazing

@barbaraedwards1 @donegallive No can do Barbara but sounds great

@JimmyForan excellent

@elbon2 Pat is a stunning performer. I had the honour to share a stage with him @AbbeyTheatre many moons ago in The Colleen Bawn

Saw a fabulous Macbeth from @LooseCanonT8er in SFX in 2001 and Innocent Erindera @galwayartsfest in 1992

Great responses so far to fave theatre piece. I saw a student production of Conversations on a Homecoming in '93 that blew me away.

@CamilleJanszen @Transportradio Excellent that's a first :)

@JimmyForan What made it so special.?

@CamilleJanszen @Tukker76 @Transportradio Translate?

@RachelYoder @EverymanPalace That piece has a special place in my heart. Had a great time directing it with @rayeates for @axisBallymun

@muchachaK write it down

@ZwartblesIE No I'm laughing and will look out for sheep droppings

@muchachaK One never retires, one is simply resting :)

@da_kar Missed that one but love both Stephen Rea and Oscar Wilde

@da_kar Saw footsbarn in Iveagh Gardens in Dublin many moons ago. Great company

@ZwartblesIE oops apologies :)

@seanohargain @watergatekk Lovely theatre and great play

@muchachaK hi there. Great to have you aboard. What best piece of theatre you were ever at?

@seanohargain that sounds amazing experience to be onstage with Chieftains

@ZwartblesIE ok now I am green and not just cos I'm Irish :)

@ZwartblesIE ok seriously jealous about those Brook is one of my heroes

@unakavanagh the West End and Musicals, a match made in heaven

@liamcredmond :)

@psneeze Simon is a great actor

@NonyFitz Saw the film not the play but truly funny and clever

@Melb_Andyboi tell me more about the piece

@liamcredmond haven't seem wicked yet but by all accounts it fab. Great songs. Big fan of musicals done well

@austinstacksabu Catalpa was exquisite. Still have images from it in my head

@weareFrance have read blasted but never seen. Electric writing

@psneeze great play Jim. Where did you see it?

Ok today would like to find out best piece of theatre you were ever at and why? Multiple answers allowed

@NiamhNic morning

Great news #katietaylor has qualified for London Olympics

@newzealand put it back on I can take no responsibility for her daring :)

@NonyFitz just an eclectic gathering from down the years

@weareFrance @newzealand yes i agree maybe a better thought than reality

@weareFrance @newzealand let's mock the weather back and wear shorts :)

@weareFrance thanks. A great week so far

@newzealand sunny here at moment but have had hail sun wind and rain over last few days so who knows?

@newzealand @peopleofuk @curatorsmexico @wearefrance Day 3 acting Irish international theatre Fest for me & will be tweeting about the arts

@NonyFitz one of my favourite artists

@newzealand how are things in New Zealand?

Breakfast time and the Ninjas are restless

@CuratorsMexico @wearefrance @peopleofuk @newzealand Good morning all and Good night to Mexico

A strange, beautiful and brilliant day. pic.twitter.com/TP9BOS5T

@darraghdoyle wow that's some cast in many different ways

@darraghdoyle Chris Moyles?

'Home is when you hang a framed picture on your wall' ....Thanks for that @NonyFitz Now what would we be in it? For me it has to be Chagall

@AnnsNews or this 'one by one they were all becoming shades'

@AnnsNews Great quote. Glad he found some though

@CaitAine thanks willdo

Here's one to end a day on. Favourite line from an Irish writer?..... Yes I said Yes I will Yes

@PatFitzGerald in between the hailshowers

@CaitAine excellent

@njpatg duck in plum sauce, cold no less, but very tasty

Two founders of acting Irish festival who met in USA back in the day & discovered they from same road in Inchicore #mad pic.twitter.com/n7Ee3uqZ

@weareFrance classy and elusive

@PatFitzGerald Genius loving this

@weareFrance that makes it sound a whole lot better than it is

The glamour. Sitting in my office eating leftover chinese pic.twitter.com/2Rr9aBIo

@TRIDXB small world

@TRIDXB @ericlalor we're big fans here @axisBallymun

@TRIDXB @ericlalor Ballymun comedian was out your way recently for gigs

@gribers energy crackling off that one

@TRIDXB Spraoi festival in Waterford or the Ballyshannon Folk festival are definitely worth a look

@CaitAine Did she enjoy the experience?

This was 1 of best moments of 1 of best concerts I have ever been at u2, Kite, Slane Castle, 2001 youtu.be/9uXitB-FfOQ.. Please share yours

Night two show is up. Great house. Great atmosphere. The speeches before the show were filled with tales of coming home.

@NonyFitz yes and it's great to hear so many of them on twitter

@NonyFitz and if you had your choice what would it be?

@heleneile lost cause no way :)

@CaitAine hi Cait great to say hello

Founding fathers of Acting Irish International Theatre Festival speaking @axisballymun pic.twitter.com/xpHSGSzA

Pardon me just to clarify,for health and safety reasons, @rayeates is 'in' not 'on' the house :)

@rayeates back on the house

You can't beat @axisballymun on an event night. Although maybe I'm biased pic.twitter.com/ZdwumF9U

@bigrig480 there's a picture

Soundcheck for Welcome event in full swing pic.twitter.com/acQO7REk

@bigrig480 and who dare I ask were you or was it a recitation?

Ok will be tweeting from launch event of Acting Irish Festival @axisBallymun for next hour or so #excited

Anybody out there from Winnipeg, Milwaukee, Calgary, Rochester or Cincinnati? We are hosting your people @axisBallymun this week

1st time I was on stage was in a play called Dark of the Moon with great group in Bray, Square One. Petrifying, Exhilarating and addictive

Doors for bars being made, cowboys invadine the theatre, preparations for Welcome event in full swing, and rehearsals happening everywhere

@clockwork_rob all good Robert. In the middle of a big festival at the moment

Ok for those who have been onstage, had an exhibition, sung at a family occasion, danced at a feis etc. Can you remember the first time?

@darraghdoyle Preparations going well and yes we trying to cram all the weather we can into their short stay

Ok we have a few new guests. We've been chatting about memories of home, food, sport and what comfort means to you

@darraghdoyle hi darragh hope all is well

@clockwork_rob hi Robert how are things?

@styleisleIRL @darraghdoyle @obrienmark @axisballymun Right back atya

@eilis_boyle @darraghdoyle @obrienmark @axisballymun Hello Eilis. How is the world treating you?

@HeyPestoie you based in the Midlands?

@HeyPestoie I don't believe it. A fellow Tullamore Sausage lover. Pray tell...

Like the image of the snail folks

@weareFrance @shanda1701 @tweetweeknyc like it though

@shanda1701 Succumb :)

@pacman656 excellent, people that tourists can't understand

@culturevultures friends family and access to creativity

@TweetWeekNYC @wearefrance like that always loved the phrase home is where the heart is and you carry that with you

@culturevultures like the question

@weareFrance friends and family

@bigrig480 ditto

A lot of talk yesterday about Home and 'Comfort' kept coming up. What does that word mean to you?

@GinaBo yes it is but called the Metro Herald now

@ninaangelica77 @axisballymun shout right back at you

We have guests in @axisBallymun this week from Winnipeg, Milwaukee, Calgary, Chicago, Toronto, Cincinnati, Rochester and Ballymun #excellent

enjoy your lunch youtu.be/z3l5zUw8vGM via @youtube

@ConzieSays absolutely

@losaltosmary Hi Mary, that was a long way from New Ross in 1906. some journey

@lukemcmanus You bet ya

@ConzieSays If the year so far is anything to go by I think the sporting gods are planning a big one

@njpatg Discovered Leitrim late but have fallen in love

@AndrewMcD10 absolutely with Culture at it's heart

@ConzieSays it's incredible when you sit down and think about the range of sports achievements from this country

@ConzieSays drama indeed

@AndrewMcD10 Love Belfast and you know have two beauiful new theatres at the lyric and Omac

Beautiful line from Dermot Bolger's play 'The Parting Glass', Where would you bring me in your city / town to show me how it lives?

It’s time to enter my native city like a foreigner. Because Dublin isn’t mine: it’s a million stories deep, a million lives being lived...

Welcome new followers where are you from?

Grew up in Bray, where the sea, the river, the mountains and the town met.

@andrewhennigan I think it is but needs to come more out of our imaginations and into the real

It's like being a tourist in an unchartered world looking to discover the hidden gems...

As a theatre director I am interested in exploring moments of change where all is possible. sometimes scary place but full of possibilities

Phone malfunction missed you all

@clonmelvideo @jabit all great places what stands out in particular from them?

@CeadaoinsChild and if you were to take them off the train and bring them somewhere where would that be

@CeadaoinsChild do tell

Today I want to know if you were to bring somebody to a place that best describes Ireland where would it be and why?

Ok about to make the journey to @axisBallymun for day 2 of festival.

@501sean some achievement

@501sean wow was that the first ever 9 darter on Irish tv? My dart board was my prized possession as a kid

@501sean some race

@ZwartblesIE horse jumping used to be huge back in the day. Great description

@Smartheat ah yes good times

#sportingmemories Seamus Darbys goal for Offaly in rain drenched croke park on '82. Unbelievable celebrations

@Smartheat they had to delay shoot for the penalties

@Smartheat great days. I was an extra on Neil Jordan's the miracle watched Romania match with him, the great donal McCann and rest of cast

@Smartheat location please #sportingmemories

@GotIreland indeed we do

@GotIreland one of the greatest

@GotIreland great great day and great performance Mcgrath was a colossus

@GotIreland where were you when you were watching

@Flexbrowne great memories of john Tracy covered in muck in the world cross country on tv

Also tweeting with the great @waynemccullough last night. We Irish are truly all over the world

@shanda1701 afraid I can't help you there :)

Ok I watched Euro 88 last night. What are your top Irish sporting memories? What do you remember of them?

@redmum lovely pic looks like a nice day

Tired this morning. Must thing of a tune to get me into the day

Three little mouths devouring cereal here

Morning all. The breakfast rush is on

To end a day full of memories of food. 'tullamore' sausages were 2nd to none...For the love of sausages gu.com/p/37ha8 G'night

@gribers wow that's a great shot, beautiful part of the world, great seaweed baths

@WayneMcCullough good to hear

@WayneMcCullough hope the world treating you well

@KevinStott11 Can't say I had much to do with @waynemccullough or U2 success except cheering and enjoying it but definitely agree with you

Turned on the telly and there's highlights of Ireland v England in Euro 88 #deadly

@TanneryDungarva @inishfood G'night

All over the world dreams are being dreamed, ideas being hatched, isn't it a great gift that we have our creativity to explore them

Home again and little heads snoring upstairs, now that's a sound I like

@firstfortnight now I am jealous

@FionaKeys you mad thing :)

Have really enjoyed my first day as @ireland Have to go talk to a few people face to face but will be back before zzzzz

@FionaKeys Did you ever mix it with anything else

@firstfortnight You can't beat a good biscuit collection. What types?

@shanda1701 Lets all say it together

Sunset @axisBallymun as the first show in the festival goes up onstage. What time is it where you are? pic.twitter.com/SefOquNX

Love that feeling of something about to begin. The feeling before you walk onstage, before you strike the first chord, Anything can happen

At the Acting Irish Festival @axisBallymun Heads on Stage the home group are getting ready for the 8pm kick off. #exciting

Just passed a madly flapping poster on a lamppost advocating 'Stability'

@bigrig480 #happydays indeed

There will be a few of these in the week.. 'This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am'

@bigrig480 Shepherds pie is one of the unsung culinary pleasures in life

@TweetWeekNYC @alexisdaria Ok now I love curating this feed :)

@TweetWeekNYC Butter on a pan has the same effect here

@stwidgie Ah yes @axisballymun were over at that before methinks. Milwaukee Irish Arts are here for the week

@stwidgie this I am not sure of. Which festival?

@alexisdaria @tweetweeknyc Brilliant thanks for that and looks wonderful

I think the sense of smell is so evocative of place and time, home for me meant nappies and sudocrem for a long time

@TweetWeekNYC Tell me more?

@Smartheat sounds wonderful. and a lovely smell I would think

@texastoasther yum

@alanbaynes Now I must say this has the opposite effect on me. Bad memories rom school I think

@mikecrotty59 Ye I agree the thoughts of what it is has the same effect but maybe we both wrong?

Time for pause&reflection. Today has been mostly about hello's food & music.Food interests me. Smells of food that remind you of home please

@carrieatthill :) My favourite sport. Hurling now not flags

@carrieatthill very well. Great day in Ballymun today as guests arrive for Acting Irish Festival. Was judging your goal or did you score one

@shanda1701 you and I both, especially my phone, cant believe how dependant I have become

Mentioned Tom Waits earlier. Here is an amazing cover by @camilleos All the World is Green: youtu.be/zyjQJ-VlMDE

Four actors dressed in cowboy costumes have just left @axisballymun heading for Plunkett Tower to have their photo taken. Milwaukee abu.

@alexisdaria @fshk @TweetWeekNYC There's an idea, t shirt slogans for the irish

@carrieatthill @worldirish @obrienmark Hello Carrie. how are you?

@mikecrotty59 what does it taste like?

@alexisdaria @TweetWeekNYC Sometimes being irish can be a state of mind

@TweetWeekNYC @alexisdaria Great Mix

@shanda1701 nearly with you was trying to see could I get away with one or other of my laptop / phone

@TweetWeekNYC and I love New York

@LucerneBelle and the smell of the sea as an accompaniement. Lord I'm getting hungry now

@travors close my eyes next time so

Tomato and Scallion sandwiches on white bread in tinfoil at GAA matches. superb

@Ordinary_Times :)

@njpatg never been there but love a good casserole

@mikecrotty59 boiled nettles? as in a soup?

@travors you know it never grabbed me. must give it another go

@limmster yum, ever have scallions with them?

@FionaKeys which flavour?

@am_flynn @YearOfFestivals @obrienmark thanks annemarie

@len_patrick excellent, a love of food and sharing is a great gift

@Ordinary_Times sugar sandwiches, sometimes with apple?

Thought for lunch. Favourite Irish food memories?

@Smartheat excellent

@iandevlin ah ok then

@blablaman44 Great city Galway steeped in the arts. Galway arts festival is great in July

@Smartheat stoves are great

@PeopleOfUK go n-eiri and bothar leat. pronounce gu neyeree on bowher lat It means may the road rise with you

@conorjh Thanks for that but can you create new homes and new memories?

@JohnGNolan That's a truly great list. Get togethers conversations stories and song and fairytale is one of the truly great songs

@foxglovelane Great answer. Like the comfort bit

@Smartheat first stove today but know where you're coming from

@iandevlin But good makes you stop and think

@blablaman44 Hi there When were you over here?

@topgold No I haven't will check it out. ta

@bigrig480 you betya

@limmster excellent

@iandevlin Like it, I think I understand it :)

@unakavanagh Mr Waits is the man, a poet

@topgold haven't gone down the kindle road yet, but newspapers have migrated onto my iphone #neverthoughtiwouldseetheday

@bigrig480 yes and toll bridge's absence has made a huge difference

Ok my 3 things that I couldn't leave ('cept family of course:)) are laptop, books, rug, although this will probably change by lunch. You?

@mshelengregg Delighted to hear you're busy

@marnicol Thanks for that will do

@mshelengregg hi Helen How's things?

@marnicol That's a great song. Tell me more about the singer

@bigrig480 Good on a sunny day but not much traffic but I prefer the long and winding ones myself

@YearOfFestivals thanks Mark really enjoyed your week. Any tips?

@len_patrick thanks Patrick

Directed a play recently about moving home. What are the 3 things that you couldn't leave behind? youtube.com/watch?v=-wfjPm…

From one home to another along the M50.

@JohnGNolan well spoken John. Any particular areas that resonate more with you?

@FizaIsa Shrek certainly could be one of the diaspora

@FizaIsa Enya for me suits later on in the day

@cathyby they are beautiful

@lornaocallaghan originally from Bray County Wicklow by the beautiful sea.

@unakavanagh thanks Una delighted to be aboard

Ok about to head off to Ballymun. Really looking forward to the week, the conversations and to learn a lot. Home is where the....

The school run has left leaving one snot green nose left

Liking the theme tunes for the day. Keep em coming

@bigrig480 keep on truckin

@ZwartblesIE thanks

@emeralds82 thanks looking forward to the chats

Going to be a few themes running through the week. But I am really interested in what it is about our culture that binds us

Greeting 50 Irish American and Canadians to Ireland this week as they take part in The Acting Irish International Theatre Fest @axisBallymun

@PeopleOfUK :)

@PeopleOfUK :) Hope that improves as the day goes on

Congrats “@sportsdes: Katie Taylor has won the first of her Olympic qualifying fights. She beat her Tunisian opponent, 19-6. #GoKatie”

@Britt_W what great tunes to start a week with

@psneeze great piano solo