Two Months After

Here I am, back in Australia and attending university. For the first time since leaving Ireland, I am reading Trinity.

Although I must have read the book close to ten times, this is by far the best reading. I am just reading the fourth part, out of seven. Up until now, the focus has mainly been on the area of Inishowen, although now the emphasis spreads to Derry, Belfast and Dublin.

While reading parts one to three, I have recognised so much. The mention of the weather and the landscape is all too familiar to me now.

But more! More than I have known before are the places mentioned! Muff, Moville, Carndonagh, the Crana river, Buncrana, Whitecastle, Redcastle and Culdaff have all been mentioned. I have been to every one of these places. If at any time some one may have wondered if it was all worth it, then I can now say an emphatic ‘yes!’