title: Donegal Homesteads: The Disappearance of the Irish Thatched Cottage
author: Lida Bulf
description: Lida Bulf changed careers in 2001 - from teaching in various parts of the globe, to the production of fine art work in the Donegal hills, Ireland. She works on commission and for exhibitions, locally and further afield. Her focus is on portraits, landscape, botanicals, still-life, calligraphy and since teaching days (from 1987 onwards) the writing of sacred icons after the Russian Orthodox tradition. Her work is motivated by two interests: generating beauty and seeing the transformative power of art on those who 'receive' it.
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  **Table of Contents**
  
  Front Cover
  
  Chapter
  
  Chapter 2
  
  Chapter 3
  
  Chapter 4
  
  Chapter 5
  
  Chapter 6
  
  Chapter 7
  
  Chapter 8
  
  Chapter 9
  
  Chapter 10
  
  Chapter 11
  
  Chapter 12
  
  Chapter 1
  
  Tyrrell watched the little plane land. He’d been in Ohio for a whole day now,
  and he’d decided that it was a cute place. The town that he was staying in, a
  quaint little burg, had all the amenities that one might need—a grocery store,
  library, schools, as well as a doctor or two. The only thing that he could
  find fault with, and that wasn’t such a big deal, was that it lacked places to
  eat. Not that the few that were there didn’t cater to your every whim, but all
  he could get delivered to him was subs and pizza. Laughing, he wondered what
  his sister would think after living in a part of Ireland that was mostly
  farmland and sheep. She’d think she was living in a metropolitan area around
  here. He was at the end of the gate when she came into the buil