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		<title>Alice! Alice! Who the&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2016 23:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my most vivid childhood memories is, along with my older sister, running up the otherwise unusually empty lane that stretched from our school gate to the park road. One eye was on the multiple eyes peering out the class windows, visibly wondering why we were escaping early. My stomach was knotted with a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This day two weeks ago I married my Special Gentleman. I floated through a day so magnificent that I have thought about it every day since and wished we could do it all again. But then, if we did, perhaps it wouldn&#8217;t be the same magical, perfect-for-us day that it was? So no, instead I [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s In A Face?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a young girl, my best friend came in the form of a previous enemy.  A fellow redhead, we spent the first of our infant academic years suspicious of, and disdainful toward , each other. In retrospect, we probably thought the sea of tanned blondes that made up our juvenile south Dublin classroom [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Vintage Musings: Leona O&#8217;Sullivan Breen</title>
		<link>http://irene.ie/archives/3985</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah Leona O’Sullivan Breen, is there a more perfect contradiction in all the land? A thoroughly modern life lived in the most nostalgic of manners. I first met this Vintage-donned, red-lipstick-rocking ball of beautiful energy in a Cork pub a few years back. The rendezvous was prearranged (as far as I know neither of us [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Skype, Sons and Sausage</title>
		<link>http://irene.ie/archives/3965</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2015 17:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Irene]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I have been contemplating technology. That collection of robot-powered tools that have become ubiquitous in modern life. The machinery that fuels our work and play life in both small and massive ways. The word that comes with a warning of social collapse, relationship destruction and the demise of the beautiful written word. I am [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty of Doing Nothing (Until It Gets Plain Ugly)</title>
		<link>http://irene.ie/archives/3950</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2015 21:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Irene]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dolce Far Niente]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freelance workers. Business owners. Juggling managers. Diligent employees. Keen-to-impress interns. We all do it: dream of long days of nothingness. Imagine hours not filled with deadlines, checklists, worry and rush. On those weeks with runs of 6am starts and 11pm finishes, where the laundry basket is overflowing and the post remains unopened (specifically the window [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Closet Project: Days 58 &#8211; 60</title>
		<link>http://irene.ie/archives/3909</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There comes a time in a girl&#8217;s life when she just has to take a break from talking about &#8211; and sharing photos of &#8211; herself. For me that time came when I was weeks into what was to be a 30-day project, still finding myself choosing from an ever-reducing closet of clothes and having [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Vintage Musings: Kate // FiftyFive65</title>
		<link>http://irene.ie/archives/3876</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2014 22:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Irene]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love ladies! I do. I love those with spirit; I love the ones with a sense of sisterhood. I particularly love those in business that graft, succeed and ultimately inspire. Kate Nowak is one such lady. We first became pen-pals of sorts when she got in touch to promote her then relatively new business [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Closet Project: Days 50 &#8211; 57</title>
		<link>http://irene.ie/archives/3822</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2014 17:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Irene]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[How Long To Save My Threads?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[One Month To Save My Threads]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still working! Yes, we&#8217;re well up on the third month and I have yet to wear all of my wardrobe. I had to break from the updates for a while as I was travelling lots with work so I shall try and do a couple of retrospective full week posts. Writing full week posts is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Closet Project: Days 47 &#8211; 50</title>
		<link>http://irene.ie/archives/3766</link>
		<comments>http://irene.ie/archives/3766#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Irene]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[After Sybil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johann for Urban Renewal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vintage Ireland Fashion & Decor Fair]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Right&#8217; I thought, &#8216; time to get down to the business of gaining some control on The Closet Project (and then all in my currently chaotic life will follow suit. It will? It will)&#8217;. So I decided to write one week&#8217;s blog in one quick post. Then I began writing and it became one week&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
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