Fairies at the bottom of the garden

Abstract

I spent a weekend in Ireland recently. Mixing business with pleasure, I left a hard‐headed adult education conference in down‐to‐earth Belfast for a day in dreamy and desolate Donegal. After driving through some of the most beautiful scenery in Europe on some of its worst roads, I sat relaxing over a pint of Guinness and let myself succumb to the delusion of all city‐dwellers — that in such remote and backward areas was to be found the idyllic life, free from worry and tension. But the conversation at the bar soon brought me back to an odd kind of reality. For the landlady and a few of her regular customers were far from worry‐free. They were deeply concerned about the dangers which could arise from the activities of the notorious if mostly unseen denizens of those parts — not the IRA, but the fairies.

Citation

Fowler, G. (1979), "Fairies at the bottom of the garden", Education + Training, Vol. 21 No. 10, pp. 293-294. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002044