PEOPLE OF GALWAY; THIS IS MOYRA

We’re having the chats with #PeopleofGalway for the craic — messers and chancers, artists and tourists, buskers and shopkeepers, and any other unwitting victims we meet on the street.

#ThisIsGalway “When my grandchild was small, she used to love hearing stories, and so I used to make up stories. Then I made up the one about the chickens, and they live on a farm called Checkerberry. There’s a farmer and his wife, and all of the chickens work on the farm. They have a life themselves – they go to the market like the farmer does, they make pies out of Checkerberries, wine, cheese, and all kinds of food. Checkerberry is another word for a herb – I just found it in a book when I was trying to identify a plant at home.
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The first book was ‘The Sad Chicken’, then there was ‘The Lonely Chicken’, then ‘The Bully Chicken’ – my granddaughter gave me the idea for that one. I asked her what a bully would do, and she said they’d take your books and tear them up, so I had the chickens do that. Then there’s ‘The Lazy Chicken’, ‘The Chicken and the Monster’, and ‘The Chicken and the Piecake’. The one I’m doing at the minute is ‘The Crazy Chicken’, and she’s crazy because she wants to go to the moon. My husband thinks I’m mad.”
– Moyra

Photo by Ciarán MacChoncarraige