Writings from Áine Greaney

  This essay was published in New Hibernia Review,  Volume 27, Issue 3, 2023.  A previous, shorter version was published in Litro, UK.    For more of Áine's published writing and teaching information, visit her  author website .  © Under U.S. copyright laws, it is illegal to copy or re-use this text without the author's permission.  *** London A - Z: A Memoir   Alsation.  That first night in London, you opened your bedroom door to find a dog lying on that landing, just beyond the threshold. Alsatian . As you stood there in your floral nightie, the doggie breed name dinged through your sleepy brain, conjuring those photos from your old school textbook chapters on Nazi-occupied Germany.   Bladder. This dog thing happened in autumn 1986, just after your twenty- fourth birthday. Even though you were in your nightie and your bladder was full, this wasn’t really your bedroom. Instead, that second-floor...