Six Degrees of Separation: April 2024
Six Degrees of Separation is hosted by Kate of https://booksaremyfavouriteandbest.com/ This time we start the chain with a travel guide of our choice, so I have chosen The Rough Guide to Ireland, which was last updated in 2021 (a new edition is to be published in 2025.) It's probably 20 years since I was last in Ireland, and I know it has changed so much since then. The Catholic church was even at that time beginning to have its iron grip on the country loosened, and from what I can tell it now has far less sway, especially in the cities. Whether that is also the case in the more rural areas, I don't know. I always loved visiting Ireland, particularly County Waterford, home of a very longstanding friend. Perhaps I will go again one day - the Rough Guide certainly provides plenty of incentives, and I like the way these guides have a 'literature' section in the back about writers, playwrights and poets, past and present (and Ireland certainly has an abundance of those.
