Joe McNamee: The Gaeltacht — Where I first learned how to eat

It was a life-changing experience

"Daughter’s departure to the Gaeltacht outside Dingle has transported me back through the decades to the late 1970s."

Daughter’s departure to the Gaeltacht outside Dingle has transported me back through the decades to the late 1970s. 

However, while she is experiencing a rite of passage familiar to generations of Irish teenagers, summer camp as Gaeilge, my ‘sentence’ was of a different order.