Excerpt from YOU'RE A DESPERATE WOMAN, SHIBBY MAGEE:
...Shibby having learned a long time ago that strainséirí are tourists, and that sandy is the word for a Burren Droma local. She also knows that sandies are what Benny and Moochie consider themselves to be, after thirty-five years of living here. Despite the islanders trying to put them right, by saying they’ll always be blow-ins. Only Clancy Magee, his late brother Corny, and their ancestors afore them, they insist, are born and bred sandies.
But, thinks Shibby, Benny and Moochie certainly look the part, whenever they wear their wool ganseys. The collection of fisherman’s sweaters they own, in varying shades of stone, and sea, and sheep.
