This memoir is important, not only as the story of the origins of what is a truly remarkable contribution to contemporary Irish folk culture, but more so of how the imagination was excited in somebody who saw the significance that dance steps were making to the long thread of Irish culture – Father Pat Ahern, who with others, attended the four-penny classes of Jeremiah Molyneaux. This book thus connects us to the heritage of dance and the importance of the imagination. For that and more I welcome it.’
Michael D. Higgins,
Uachtarn na hireann,
President of Ireland