own family history. for a refreshment, you could stop off at the countries most visited tourist attraction, the guinness storehouse which produces 880 million pints of the black stuff every year. i popped over a few months ago to check out the exhibits and sample their new alcohol free stout. you genuinely would not know. well i didn t, anyway. if you are a budding choice man you are a budding choice man you cannot miss the celebrations on the 16th of june, the annual festival taking place on the date depicted in ulysses and there are events inspired by the novel oliver dublin including street performances and fancy dress. stay tuned because later in the programme i will pop into one of the festival is most famous landmarks.