With Dr Susan Cahill at the Irish Studies’ Centre in Concordia University, Montreal

Next stop on our tour of Canada was the Blue Met Festival, Montreal. Click on images to go large/get info/scroll

Is this Diagon Alley?

Drawn & Quarterly bookshop at Mile End (where William Shatner grew up)

There was a mural festival going on on Boulevard St Laurent

mural festival on Boulevard St Laurent

mural festival on Boulevard St Laurent

mural festival on Boulevard St Laurent

mural festival on Boulevard St Laurent

mural festival on Boulevard St Laurent

mural festival on Boulevard St Laurent

Deirdre and the bird cages

Arret!

Marilyn

China Town

China Town

Golden birds, lobby Édifice Aldred, Art Deco in Vieux Montreal

Édifice Aldred -Art Deco in Vieux Montreal

Art Deco lift – lobby of Édifice Aldred

stained glass window in Basilique Notre Dame

Basilique Notre Dame de Montreal

Édifice Aldred -Art Deco, Montreal

Poutine! French fries in gravy with cheese curds.

Moomins at Drawn & Quarterly

Deirdre reads from her CBI award-winning novel, Needlework

Susan gives me an intro

Dave reading from Knights of the Borrowed Dark

Costumes for the ballet at the fabulous Marc Chagall exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts

Then it was off on a train to the capital, writing as we went…