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Irish Independent
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘In Italy, they savour the drink' – Instagram star on moving from rural Galway to living ‘La Dolce Vita'
Today at 02:54 Social media star, fashion marketing assistant and self-confessed Italophile Ciara Walsh has made a major name for herself showing the reality of moving from Ireland to Italy. With a follower count of over 51,000 on Tiktok and 34,000 on Instagram and counting, Ciara has carved out a major niche with her videos as she depicts the differences between Irish and Italian culture as she has spent nearly a decade living and working in Bologna.
Wall Street Journal
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
The Dude Digs Mozart
My local classical-music station is WDAV out of Davidson, N.C. I love listening to it as I drive about town. At least I think I do. A few recent rambles have made me wonder: Are you really a classical music aficionado if your mind makes the cinematic associations that mine does? Take 'The Barber of Seville: Overture,' played on a jaunt in my pickup. A better man than I would've saluted Rossini's genius. I thought only of the sabotage scene in 'Breaking Away,' where in a road race the idealistic Italophile Dave Stohler realizes that even his heroes, the Italian cycling team, cheat.
