Searching for the Sealskin

About the Book

On a daily basis, I have been asked why I came to Ireland. This memoir is an answer that question. It is about ordinary people and everyday lives in extraordinary times. As an American, I had a unique opportunity to be a part of both the Protestant and Catholic way of going. The experience of both communities is told with humor, and the transition from Belfast to Donegal, from city to country, is shown with the perspective of an outsider to both! Remarkable changes have taken place in the North, since I first ventured there in 1996 and this is one of the stories.

About the Author

I came to Belfast for four years in 1996 as a peace and reconciliation worker from the United States and I fell in love with the west of Ireland and Donegal. Since then, I just went back to the States for visits. I live with an assortment of ‘over 55’s’ in an apartment building in Dungloe, County Donegal. I am 70, and, at long last have an Irish passport. I have three daughters, one in Illinois, one in Alabama, and one in Saudi Arabia.