On two pets' walk-on part in the Hollywood film... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Michael Collins never met a Shih Tzu in his life by Joyce Hickey above.
The phone rang, and it rang, and it rang again. Upstairs, engrossed in the mire of my master's thesis, wrestling with references and wrangling words into order, I cursed the unanswered ringing thing, and then I ran to the kitchen. "Hello," I growled, in the voice of someone who had been writing through the night and had not yet spoken that morning. "Hello," said a man. "I’d like to speak to Frances Hickey. I believe she knows about dogs.
My mother, Frances, being an expert on Shih Tzus and a judge at all-breed shows all over the world, did indeed know about dogs. "She does," I said, "but she’s not here. Can I help?"
I was thinking, I also know about dogs: I’m writing a thesis about their early medieval ancestors...
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