About

Doireann Markham

A credit to the parents. Rossie, political anorak, historian, feminist, gasbag. I was on the JI Work and Travel visa in Chicago when I started this blog to detail my impressions of life in America. The focus changed somewhat when I came home to a corner of west Roscommon. Lately, I’ve gone west and further west again, and am living my best island life on Inis Meáin.

Like Joan Didion – and here is where the similarity begins and ends – I’m writing to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means.