Heritage & Place
Clan, Gaelic, the inn and the shooting lodge, the roads and the places, and what a Highland welcome has meant.
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Heritage & Place · · 3 min read
The story goes like this: a Cork fireside and the stag bells
A coal fire in Cork, Barry's tea, RTÉ on low, and my grandfather telling the same story a hundred and one times. Never once a different story.
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Heritage & Place · · 3 min read
Why the Highlands: a letter before the move
Somewhere in those months a question I'd been carrying answered itself. I want the hills to be the view, not the holiday.
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Heritage & Place · · 3 min read
The drinks, the people and the places
The best drinks I've made began in a tea shop in the English Market in Cork. Part two of looking back before Scotland: the drinks, the people and the places.
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Heritage & Place · · 2 min read
Where it all started: a Honda, a Christmas pudding and Fota Island
At fifteen I bought a Honda 125 with money from a few hours' work a week. Then came the first waiter job, a Christmas pudding, and Fota Island at eighteen.
