'Tell Pat I will have a new house for him when he comes home.' — 16th July 1951 'We took my father by surprise of a September night. It was a sweet sensation. We had the new houses for home.'
'The country of childhood is revelatory like no other. It is first time country. As such, it awaits the freshness of exploration and holds the key of discovery. It can never really be possessed other than in the realm of the imagination.'
Author of sixteen books, Patrick J. O'Connor is a human geographer at the University of Limerick. Dr. O'Connor is twice winner of the Irish Historical Research Prize, in 1987 for Exploring Limerick's Past, and in 1989 for People Make Places. He is also twice winner of the Government of Canada Faculty Enrichment Award. His forthcoming book Behold the Enchanting Country: Poems on Canada will be published in zolo.