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“But I wouldn’t kill anybody for money. No matter how much I needed it. I’m not the man for it. My memory is too good. I wouldn’t want to relive over and over the sight of some poor fool going down under the weight of his own blood.”
John Straley, Death and the Language of Happiness
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Kirwan’s Lane is regarded as Galway’s most important medieval passage. The Kirwans were one of the twelve tribes who founded the city. There’s a small theatre there where Wolfe Tone appeared. It was begun by a man with the wonderful name Humanity d**k Martin.
I could hear music coming from Busker Brown’s. This pub includes part of the “Slate Nunnery”, a building presented to the Dominican nuns in 1686 by John Kirwan. It was to become the first convent of the Presentation nuns.
I didn’t know what put
