title: An Innocent in Ireland: Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters
author:  David McFadden 
description: Ireland is ancient, magical, and odd, and obviously David McFaddens spiritual home. Join him on a wonderful journey.<br />Paul Quarrington<br /><br />What a wonderful, wonderful book! David McFaddens humour, erudition, curiosity, his poets loving eye, his devotion to every moment and setting in which he finds  himself all these great rare gifts are here in spades. I have been to Ireland, I have written about Ireland, I have family in Ireland! And now that I have read <i>An Innocent in Ireland</i> I have at long last seen the place.<br />Barbara Gowdy
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  Interim Errantry 2:
  
  
  On Ordeal
  
  
  
  
  
  Diane Duane
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Errantry Press
  
  
  County Wicklow, Ireland
  
  
  
  
  
  Interim Errantry 2:
  
  
  On Ordeal
  
  
  
  
  
  Diane Duane
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by Errantry Press
  
  
  County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland
  
  
  A division of the [Owl Springs Partnership](http://owlspringspartnership.com)
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © Diane Duane 2017
  
  
  All rights reserved. Reproduction of this material by any means, electronic or
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  Version info: IE:OO ebook edition v2.08 (27 July 2017): Minor textual and
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  Prelude
  
  
  
  
  
  Many species from this side of creation to the other and back again have at
  one time or another had a saying that involves perceiving the conditions then
  obtaining around one, and then pointing at them and saying in ultimate
  acceptance: "It is what it is." (Often with an added, or at least implied,
  “And what can you do?”) And this attitude is often see