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Sligo

 

"On my first night in the Gaeltach the old woman spoke to me in English: "You´ll be all rignt." I sat on a twilit bedside listening through the wall to fluent Irish, homesick for a speech I was to extirpate.    

I had come west to inhale the absolute weather".

SEAMUS HEANEY "The stations of the west"