I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.
I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.
Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.
Ireland, once you live there, you're seduced by it.
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
I was brought up in Cumbria where I saw all these fierce agricultural women.
I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.
My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.
My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
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