After the end of the conflagration known as World War II, Esse Layton came to Ireland from Chicago via a short stay in England. It was just to be a short visit to see what we were like on the far side of the Atlantic. She stayed over half a century, over half of her very long life. She fell in love with us: land, landscape, the way we lived, the way we talked, the way we coped with life and living in those far off days now dismissed as veritably primitive since we became accustomed to the exotic gimmicks of the short lived tiger.
