Acknowledgements

Sustenance on several levels was lavishly provided en route by Maire and Eamonn Brehony, Pauline Conway, Maura and Jim Culligan, William Howlett, Michael Kelly, Audrey and Michael O’Dowd, Mary and Seamus O’Grady, Betty and Michael O’Meara, Anne and Michael McInery, Joy and John Parkinson, Geraldine Prenderville, Brendan Rogers, Isabelle von Prondzynski and Sean White. To all, affectionate thanks for their considerable contributions to my survival and enlightenment.

Hallam Murray provided invaluable advice on the bicycle-buying level; then he taught me how to use derailleur gears after fifty years of Sturmey Archers.

Diana, Jock and John Murray performed their usual heroic feats on the editorial level; ‘What they do/Still betters what is done.’