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My liver is flying a white flag of surrender: I’ve just survived my first Irish party. At 3am I stagger off the dance floor of an inner city Londonderry pub to
Thin Places by Kerri ní Dochartaigh review – a survivor's story Sean O’Hagan © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer The “thin places” that give this book its title exist in Irish mythology as thresholds or portals to the other side; sites where the veil between this world and the next is most porous. Known to locals through oral stories passed down the generations, they are vestiges of an older, stranger Ireland, their resonance still palpable, Kerri ní Dochartaigh suggests, to those attuned to their otherness. “They are places that ma...