KILEARNADIL
From John Burnside's Jura Diary
'I suppose it’s only natural, coming to a place as beautiful as this, that it would be the land and the water
and the light that first struck us, but as I begin to settle in - and in spite of the fact that I’ve spent large chunks of time holed up in the Lodge, scribbling -
I see that the real beauty of this island is its people. I’ve obviously not met everyone on Jura, but the people I have met have been full of stories
and music and their fondness for where they live is almost tangible. It’s a small community, and it seems a very close one - not just of the living,
but of the dead, too. Somebody said to me that Jura people don’t forget the dead, they keep them close with stories and memories and there is something
wonderful about that. It reminds me of what a Sami friend told me about the yoik - a Sami song that, whether it’s about a person or a pin-tailed duck,
carries the spirit of its subject so fully that, when somebody yoiks a friend who is far away, or dead, that friend is actually in the room, in spirit, which is to say, in reality.'
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This was one of Paddy's favourite songs from The Wee Toon Tellers, |
View from Paddy's home at Knockrome. Paddy was born here in 1961.
Storm, Paddy's dog.
Paddy loved dogs and had Storm for 9 years.
He was given him by Jill & John Errington.
Click on image of 'Knockrome' above for a link to a page about Jura on the website of David Faithfull, an artist who visited Jura with John Burnside; they worked on a project together.