What a Difference a Day Makes: Conal Creedon on visiting his Uncle Jack in Beara
Cork writer Cónal Creedon tells Helen O’Callaghan about a day when he was seven that began his first extended time away from home – and how being with his Uncle Jack in Beara birthed in him a deep sense of place.
Culture Night participant Author Cónal Creedon in Cork Gaol. Photo Darragh Kane
Life is full of defining moments. If I hone it down to one special day, it goes back to when I was seven in the 1960s. It was when I went to visit my Uncle Jack — my first time away from home, away from my parents.
My mother was from Beara, one of 10 sisters. I was very much a downtown Cork City boy, though I was only a child at the time. My mother had it in her soul to give me a taste of what Beara was about.
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