Mo Laethanta Saoire: Up In Smoke, by Billy O'Callaghan 

In the latest of our series of summer-themed reads, Billy O'Callaghan takes us to Bonfire Night in Cork in 1984

Billy O'Callaghan, author. 

By the time I was nine years old my grandfather's suit, a chocolate-brown pinstripe with big shoulders and baggy legs, had already gone a lifetime past its prime, the elbows and knees turned paper-thin, the cuffs frayed, the seams beginning to split. 

For all its many and obvious flaws, though, it remained his most treasured possession – ripe, he liked to claim, with the flavours of every significant moment he'd ever known, the gloriously sunlit days as well as the most tearful ones.