I see another, less likely version of her, in an apron, pouring pancake batter into a frying pan, asking would I like another, the way my mother sometimes does when she is in good humor. I see a tall woman standing over me, making me drink milk still hot from the cow. ![]() I wonder what it will be like, this place belonging to the Kinsellas. I shake the plaits out of my hair and lie flat on the back seat, looking up through the rear window. My father throws his hat on the passenger seat, winds down the window, and smokes. We pass through the village of Shillelagh, where my father lost our red shorthorn in a game of forty-five, and on past the mart in Carnew, where the man who won her sold her not long afterward. ![]() It is a hot August day, bright, with patches of shade and greenish sudden light along the road. Early on a Sunday, after first Mass in Clonegal, my father, instead of taking me home, drives deep into Wexford toward the coast, where my mother’s people came from.
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