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Sunday Miscellany: My Mother's House, by Julie Cruickshank

Competing visions of tradition, modernity, and what a house should be, in rural Galway... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to My Mother's House, by Julie Cruickshank above.

One of the bitterest rows my mother and I ever had centred around windows. It happened on her regular walk near the family home in rural Galway, a lonely road that skirts a raised bog...

This essay appeared on the programme of October 12th - listen back here

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