Are both Norman Rush and J. P. Donleavy of Irish heritage?
Norman Rush Norman Rush (born October 24, 1933, San Francisco, California) is an American writer whose introspective novels and short stories are set in Botswana in the 1980s.
Ballyferriter Ballyferriter (Irish: "Baile an Fheirtéaraigh" , meaning "Ferriter's townland" , ] or "An B[h]uailtín"),), is a Gaeltacht village in County Kerry, Ireland. It is in the west of the Corca Dhuibhne (Dingle) peninsula and according to the 2002 census, about 75% of the town's population speak the Irish language on a daily basis. The village is named after the Norman-Irish Feiritéar family who settled in Ard na Caithne in the late medieval period and of whom the seventeenth-century poet and executed leader, Piaras Feiritéar, was a member. The older Irish name for the village "An B[h]uailtín" ("the little dairy place") is still used locally.