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On loss and grief - ‘it is the unarguable force of their absence, and the conundrum of what to do with what they leave behind: the boots, the combs full of strands, the spoon worn smooth by their fingers, the shawl draped on a chair, the bonnet on the peg.’
Less is so much more!

Arriving on foot at the ‘House of Formation’ Liam observes a group of young men playing hurling.
There is something forbiddingly moneyed about them: they have the patina of wealth about them; expensive schooling. They are not, Liam is sure, from the country, like he is. Not one of them wears a pair of strong, mud-heavy boots.

This house is a thing both ancient and disjointed, an entity of addition and subtraction, a palimpsest of stone and wood and caulk and mud.