‘When the time comes to put me out to grass ... out to the island, where I can wander the byways and boreens’
Áine Ryan mined the ironies and anarchism offered by old age in her contribution entitled, Out there on the island.Summer of Family: This summer, parents are looking for tips, advice and information on how to help their children thrive during the holiday months. You can read all about it at irishtimes.com/health/your-family
Edited by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and Michaela Schrage-Früh, Well You Don’t Look It, is an Irish anthology of creative writing on that inevitable process of getting older. Through the medium of essays, stories and poems, 41 women writers explore the experience of ageing, humorously, probingly and poetically.
Continuing, McManus writes: “Here was a woman who had nobody else to turn to. She couldn’t go to her doctor for a consultation. She couldn’t go to her local family planning centre because there was none.” Isn’t it no wonder I have given the following advice to my daughters? “When the time comes to put me out to grass, dispatch me back across the bay, out to the island, where I can wander the byways and boreens, talking to myself there I can wear my red or pink beret and smoke Gitanes cigarettes, just like I did when I was a student in the hallowed halls of Maynooth.”
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