Dr. Rhona Richman Kenneally
Dr. Rhona Richman Kenneally is an academic, an educator, an administrator and an institution-builder. Her research and projects center on Food Culture, Design, and Canadian and Canadian-Irish identity.
If I stood on the bow-backed chair, I could reach The light switch. They let me and they watched me, A touch of the little pip would work the magic. A turn of their wireless knob and light came on In the dial. They let me and they watched me As I roamed at will the stations of the world.
—Seamus Heaney
Excerpt from Electric Light, in the collection called Electric Light
(London: Faber and Faber, 2001).
In the village, a crowd of overcoated men sent up a cheer for progress and prosperity for all… And in the length of time it took to turn a switch and to make light of their house, three women saw themselves stranded in a room that was nothing like their own, with pockmarked walls and ceiling stains, its cobwebs and its grime: their house undone and silenced by the clamour of new light.
—Vona Groarke
excerpt from The Lighthouse, in Other People’s Houses
(Gallery Press, 1999): 34-35.
