The Whole of Ireland

Conor stopped the car on top of the highest hill in the North and from there I could see the whole of Ireland stretched out in front of me. The sun was blinding and the sky was burning but when I shielded my eyes with my hand I could see all the way from that hilltop in Rathfriland to the city of Dublin to my home in Wicklow to the most southerly point of Cork where we had been only weeks beforehand.