Ireland Now: Tales of Change from the Global Island

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Putting this book together has been a pleasure for me. For others, it involved a certain amount of effort—making contacts, reading drafts, opening their lives, and searching their thoughts. Readers will be able to recognize how indebted I am to many of those who appear on these pages. Others’ contributions will not be as evident, but I know the value and will always be grateful for their work in reading, commenting, encouraging . Thank you, Cauvery Madhavan, Lorna Gleasure, and Khalid Sallabi, for your help in making contacts, as well as for your own stories . Thank you, Mary Katherine Freeston and Resmiye Oral, for your able assistance in research and recording, for putting people at ease in your presence. Thanks to Al Fisher, Josef Gugler, Robert Marrs, Rick Hills, Nukhet Yarbrough, Tim Flanagan, and Karen Wachsmuth for reading and commenting on parts of the draft. Thank you, Connie Birmingham , for slogging through the whole thing and liking it. Thanks to Beth Wright of Trio Bookworks for a great job of copyediting. And my thanks to the people at the University of Notre Dame Press: director Dr. Barbara J. Hanrahan, managing editor Rebecca R. DeBoer, and design manager Margaret A. Gloster. And I am especially grateful to all the people in the book for guiding us through the way a profoundly changed Ireland has looked and felt in their lives. vii Flanagan 000.FM 6/5/07 1:36 PM Page vii Flanagan 000.FM 6/5/07 1:36 PM Page viii IRELAND NOW Flanagan 00.intro 6/5/07 1:38 PM Page 1 ...