Patricia Forde

And there was another one called the Fodd Ocrach, where you would sit down somewhere, you'd be out on a hike on a mountain and you'd sit down and you'd suddenly be weak with hunger.

And in Connemara they used to say it was a place where people died during the famine.

And I've heard people say they experienced it.

where they sat down and they were suddenly weak with hunger.

Isn't that extraordinary?

And they call it the food okrok, hunger.

That'll be, yeah.

I'll have you as a co-conspirator on the inside.

I think books, you know, are the best of us.

It's what we've put into them over the years.

That thread has existed and gone from generation to generation under the most difficult circumstances.

You know, when you think, if you go back far enough where the church didn't like us reading books,

And books were banned, all of that.

But somehow they survived.

And I think they survived because there is a part of us that want to be curled up with a book speaking directly, the author speaking directly to you.

You, like you said, deciding in your head what the characters look like.

You are the director of that play.

You make all the decisions.

So I can't imagine that people will miss that opportunity.

But that's not to say that we, the adults now, don't need to really roll up our sleeves and work hard.