What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Meeting where heaven and earth concur.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
The man who owned only the robe on his back.
Which living person do you most admire?
Ditto.
Which is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Not being enough like him.
What is your greatest extravagance?
A new robe.
What is your favourite journey?
Do’n phrìomh-rìoghachd mo chridhe.
On what occasion do you lie?
When I’m not standing.
Which living person do you most despise?
He who holds good news but brings only bad.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
The one that I cannot match.
When and where were you happiest?
A-meag mo chinneadh.
Which talent would you most like to have?
S’e uaslaid mo chéile.
What is your current state of mind?
Dòchasach.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Speaking a word fitly spoken.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?
A celestial raspberry blower.
What is your most treasured possession?
My keys.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Losing them.
What is your favourite occupation?
Unlock-smith.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
One mouth that speaks.
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Two ears that listen.
Who are your favourite writers?
Those who quell or quash the quisling quill.
What is your motto?
Cothrom na féinne.
Paraig is a folklorist, poet, songwriter, and storyteller from Perthshire, Scotland. He will give a series of lectures on Scottish-Irish history in the Galway City Museum on June 14, 15, and 18 (all 6.30pm ), and recite stories and poems at the Stirling Showcase in Monroe’s on June 17 at 8pm, as part of the Stirling-Galway Sessions 2010.
Kernan Andrews
