A month-long trip to France led to romance and a new life in rural Co Cork for New Yorker Jessica Bonenfant
‘The US has become really divisive. I definitely prefer the quality of life here. I like the people and the possibilities’
In a “sort of cultural faux pas”, Bonenfant says she made the grave error of thinking there would be “no need for dessert if we have cake”, much to the dismay of her in-laws, who in typical Irish fashion were “afraid people are going to think we’re mean”. And so dessert was put back on. “That was really energetically a big knock in terms of, you know, working so hard to get a space open and six months later being underwater. We had a full house of artists at the time.”
Embracing Celtic traditions has formed a large part of her work in Greywood, where she has reinstated the long-standing May Sunday Festival, which she says ran from the early 1800s “all the way to the year 2000″.
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