CONTENTS

PART ONE

Day 1: Arctic explorers

Day 11,985: Autumn sonata

Before Our Day: Behind the scenes at the National Library

Day 11,989: The end of the rainbow

Before Our Day: Summer in Dunquin

Before Our Day: ‘The forgotten fiancée’

Day 2: ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediment’

Day 11,991: Halloween

Day 3: ‘Yesterday’

Day 11,992: All Saints’ Day

Day 4: Babette’s Feast

Day 11,993: D-Day

Sunday, Day 11,994: Nordic walk

Monday, Day 11,995: ‘See ye that ook?’

Day 26: Breaking the spell

Tuesday, Day 11,996: ‘The Children of Lir’

Day 60: Copenhagen

Wednesday, Day 11,997: Trying to escape

The Thousandth Day

Thursday, Day 11,998: ‘The Battle of Ventry’

The Last of April

Friday, Day 11,999: ‘The Sod of Death’

A Day of Our Life

Saturday, Day 12,000: Thin ice

PART TWO

Afterword

Dreams

‘Our father goes early to bed, for he is an old man’

Hidden Pictures from the Middle Ages

Acknowledgements