Greetings.
Welcome to my new Blog. This blog will take you back in time with me to when I lived on an island off the west coast of Ireland for three and a half years from 1975 to 1979. I look forward to sharing my memoir experiences with you rhrough my journal writings, essays, poems and artwork created back so long ago.
I lived in the cottage of the old storyteller Joe Martin. It was a beautiful stone cottage lovingly patted out by hand nestled into the hillside not far from the famous O'Brien's castle.The house had one main room, the kitchen and a large bedroom off as well as a small side room. The dresser held all kinds of beautiful delpht patterned dishes.I lived a very simple, primitive existence. I wove for a small living, wrote and painted. The pratical things I learned were how to keep a coal fire going, how to knit, how to gather seaweed and how to survive on very little. There I lived among the amazing islanders who knew the wind, the waves and each bend of the weather. I dedicate this blog to the islanders of Inisheer who taught me so much.
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