{"id":194,"date":"2010-10-23T15:33:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T13:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2010\/10\/23\/the-prague-irish-connection\/"},"modified":"2020-08-29T16:17:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T16:17:59","slug":"the-prague-irish-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2010\/10\/23\/the-prague-irish-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prague Irish Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some readers may know that Karin and I lived in West Cork, Ireland for several years before moving to Paros, Greece.\u00a0 While in Prague we hoped to renew the connection by going to one of the promoted &#8220;Irish pubs&#8221;\u009d.\u00a0 Sadly we were consistently disappointed by either closed for\u00a0remodeling\u00a0signs or the only Irishness was bottled Guinness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/LuasClass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"813\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2010\/10\/23\/the-prague-irish-connection\/luasclass\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/LuasClass.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"960,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LuasClass\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/LuasClass-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/LuasClass.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-813\" title=\"LuasClass\" src=\"http:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/LuasClass-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Irish dancing class in Prague\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/LuasClass-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/LuasClass-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/LuasClass.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Recently we were pleasantly surprised by a news article referring to a Prague school offering Irish dancing lessons.\u00a0 Come to find out there are two such schools in Prague and many others throughout all of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The newest school, Luas Dancing School, is directed by Tereza Louzecka Bach.\u00a0 Her first interest was American style clogging so she teaches that as well.<\/p>\n<p>Participants are welcome for exercise and fun or they can train for competitions in Poland, Austria, Germany, Holland and eventually on to England and Ireland as well.<\/p>\n<p>Prague also hosts a branch of the Delaney Academy of Irish Dance based in London.\u00a0 I guess next time we will have to look deeper for a bit of shamrock.<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:4b308e32-3fa2-4cba-8e70-ea9edfd1e409\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"margin: 0px; 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