Creative Writing: Under The Spell - A travel tale by Danny O'brien


"The great advantage of having an ancestry like that of a mongrel dog is I have
so many ancestral homes to go home to."

We caught the ferry from Le Havre, France to Ireland, land of my ancestors.
Every since I was a wee lad, my mind has been used as a canvas by every Irishman
who has been displaced from the Emerald Isle. A picture of quaintness
bordering upon myth. Cute I thought it would be, but never as much as the
tourist hype I had read. I donned my suit of armor constructed of cynicism,
forged by age. Protected thus from the hype, I the ancestral child would see
Ireland as it really is. Mind you, no tourist hype for me.

The ship pulled in to Rosslare Harbor near Wexford and lowered its gangplank. I
made it most of the way down before I was sucked clean out of my armor into,
head over heels, and under the spell of the Emerald Isle.

We had arranged for a rental car, to be picked upon arrival at the harbor.......

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