Pale gorse, black diamond: THE GORSE BLOOMS PALE by Dan Davin

Listener – January 12, 2007

As a child, I enjoyed listening to my father (of Galway Irish Catholic stock) on the rare occasions he told stories about his Southland childhood. They were stories about rabbit-hunting with ferrets and ploughing his father’s farm behind a team of draught-horses, and when he talked about his grandparents he slipped into their Irish brogue. More,,,