Dorothy Irenosen Okojie Sigurður Pálsson was born in

Sigurður Pálsson was born in 1948 in Skinnastadur

and then followed the Vikings West to Vinland in North America

and which might in the past have invited censure and punishment

and the intellectual honesty

Forty-five years ago Eduardo Embry came from ‘the England of South America’ to a country  green as a crocodile

Dorothy Irenosen Okojie Sigurður Pálsson was born inOne evening when they are sitting quietly together she breaks the silence and starts to talk Dorothy tells the complete story of a Yorkshire woman, in verse, from her birth early in the last century to her death in the first years of this. Like so many of her generation, she lived a life both ordinary and extraordinary; shaded by grief, troubled by family dynamics, and restricted by the realities of class, location and gender. Hers was a life where