Jaywalking with the Irish

CHAPTER 2

As in chapter one, David Monagan continues to describe the reasons for moving to Ireland, the settling in and the reason why they left America. Furthermore, he depicts the commence of getting to know new people, or meeting their new neighbours. Giving us an insight into the reasons whey they left America, he mentions that they wanted to escape their odd and programmed lives, where people are too busy to interact and socialise with others.

In search of food, he found a supermarket where the first dodgy experience happened: he could not use his credit card for paying the groceries. Secondly, full of confidence he went into a bank to open a checking account, which was then deniend, because of the bank clerk’s saying that “they cannot know how he is who he say he is until six months have passed.”

CHAPTER 3

In chapter 3 David looks back on the time spent in Ireland when he was a student. During this time he rented a gate lodge in the north of Dublin, a few miles from the Trinity College, where he was meant attending the classes. But he rather prefered reading books by Falnn O’Brien than going to College. Furthermore, he mentions his friend and soul mate Bun, with whom he underwent ispiring days going to pubs and drinking “ambrosia and nectar”- carrot whiskey. Receiving the sad news that his dear old friend had died in his sixties, ripped open a wound which never healed.
David Monagan also describes places like Connemara, which he was introduced to through his friend Bun.

Connemara is a distirct in the west of Ireland. Formerly it was divided into North and South Connemara. The coast of Connemara consists of numerous peninsulas. The main town of Connemara is Clifden.

Trinity College
The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin or more commonly Trinity College. It was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I and is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Ireland’s oldest university.

Flann O’Brien
Flann O’Brien was the best known pseudonym of Brian O’Nolan, who was born in 1911 and died in 1966. He was a 20th century satirist and humorist who also published under the name “Myles na gCopaleen.”