The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of the two. Bohane is a little kingdom. When I began writing it, I realised that it was in the future and that it was a place that didn't care about anything that happened outside it.
I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
People who are visiting Long Island find it's very beautiful, and they are quick to try Long Island foods, wines and other products.
But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.
Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilliant about the Water of Leith is that it's so hidden. It's a secret.
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.
That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.
Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.
No one is an island. All these entities that drive economic development are interconnected in one sense or another.