Flash Mob in Kilkenny Ireland and another Human Interest Story

Today we will skip the travelogue and cover another chapter in the life of a person that has really never left his first childhood.

At noon on July 14th there was a "Flash Mob" happening on Kiernan Street Kilkenny, Ireland. Kiernan Street is in the heart of the medieval section of Kilkenny. It is lined with pubs, outdoors cafes and other shops. Some of the pubs and shops are over 700 years old. Seven “twentyish” Irish kids and 64 year old Joel formed the flash mob. A flash mob (or flashmob) is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and sometimes seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment and/or satire. Janice filmed it and we hoped to add it to our blog, but it is not uploading for some reason so we will just put a few pictures here of those he did this with.

Joel played the air guitar with his cane and the kids all danced to the Beatles, "All Together Now" and all the “kids” joined in dancing and having fun inviting the crowd to join them. The idea was to promote hostels as a way to go around Ireland with a fun place to stay. A crowd gathered and seemed to enjoy our performance. Afterwards a few pints were called for and enjoyed.

Part of our group was two young women, Claire and Sive, pictured here.



They had stayed at the hostel for a couple nights. They are from a suburb of Dublin and are traveling for a week around Ireland to promote Hostels.



They are not supposed to spend any money and are being put up at various hostels around the country for free. Their next stop is at a place where they will have parts in a play and the next stop after they will be deckhands on a boat. They also earlier this week were part of a flash mob at the Dublin Airport. They are wonderful young women and look fragile for this type of adventure. We encouraged them as this is the time of life to do this before they become encumbered with life's responsibilities. Hopefully, we also encouraged them with the example that later in life you can be irresponsible and have adventures. 


Kilkenny has been a fun stop on our grand tour. Saturday we head for the north of Ireland for another set of adventures. Stay tuned.  As always, we invite you to leave comments here below. It's just fun to see what you think, and to know people are reading our blog. Thanks friends!