‘Darcy had to learn to tolerate me, the way you do an annoying but necessary flatmate. We would have to get on’
A newly published collection of essays from Sunday Miscellany, the RTÉ Radio One programme, includes contributions from Irish writers including Dermot Bolger, Rita Ann Higgins and Marina Carr, with reflections on life that range from the political to the personal. In this moving essay, entitled Goodbye Furball, Niall McArdle describes how a kitten called Darcy bulldozed his way into his life – and slowly won a place in his heart
Charlotte and I found him on Darcy Avenue in Toronto, that’s why we called him Darcy. When I spotted him, he was huddled and quaking under a car, a tiny white furball with a black Gorbachev smudge on his forehead and a plump black tail finished off with a shock of white.
We dutifully did the rounds of the houses on the street, asking if this kitten belonged here. People shook their heads and apologetically ...
