Now I just need to go out and buy my iPad so I have an excuse to buy this collection and get through the rest of the story, as well as all the others!
I take some comfort in the thought that perhaps at least some tourists know how much they don't really know about Ireland, often thanks to fiction like yours...and I say this as an American whose first real image of modern Ireland came from her childhood reading of A Wizard Abroad. Being a tourist in Ireland about a decade after that first reading was quite the experience! Though the knowledge has been useful in other ways as well -- recently, the bartender at an Irish pub in San Francisco was surprised and pleased that I not only knew what "Cead mille failte" meant, but how to pronounce it. :)
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Date: 2011-03-14 06:14 am (UTC)I take some comfort in the thought that perhaps at least some tourists know how much they don't really know about Ireland, often thanks to fiction like yours...and I say this as an American whose first real image of modern Ireland came from her childhood reading of A Wizard Abroad. Being a tourist in Ireland about a decade after that first reading was quite the experience! Though the knowledge has been useful in other ways as well -- recently, the bartender at an Irish pub in San Francisco was surprised and pleased that I not only knew what "Cead mille failte" meant, but how to pronounce it. :)