Connemara

Unable to afford engineering school in the big city, he chose culinary school instead - beginning his journey at Taj Connemara hotel in Chennai, cooking his way through cruise ships and kitchens, and eventually finding his promised land in America, working at Dosa in San Francisco.

The house fire broke out at a rural house in Gleann Mhic Mhuireann, near the village of Casla in Connemara.

He grasped a string of rosary beads made of marble from Connemara in Ireland’s County Galway.

But The Pogues did Irish song with dirt under its fingernails, as spellbinding as American gospel, as heart-rending as Puccini, as wild as the sea-spray on a Connemara cliff, as wrenching as a Kilburn hangover.

Quinn intentionally made it in Irish as a way to reclaim the notion of an untainted, true Irish identity in the Connemara region of the west of Ireland, away from bourgeois life.