‘Don’t slip!’ reads the handwritten sign on the creaky, wooden back door of Dromore House in the wilds of Tipperary. The man who wrote it, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, died six years ago. “He probably slipped on the wet concrete himself and decide to warn me,” his wife, Helen Phelan, says.
The legendary composer of Cry of the Mountain in 1981, Between Worlds in 1995 and Templum in 2001 also put notes up on the bathroom door – don’t be in the shower too long or there’d be no hot water for baths – a legacy of the idiosyncrasies of a house originally built in 1780..
