| It cannot exactly be described as documentary travel writing; Böll took artistic licence and added some fictitious elements, e.g. the copper kettle in the chapter “The most beautiful feet in the world”. Achill became the family’s second home, and they spent many summers in the white cottage on the edge of Dugort village. A consiserable amount of Böll’s writing was done there too, including co-translations with his wife; she translated over 200 works into German, yet Annemarie Böll barely merits an aside in the literature about Böll. Heinrich Böll died in 1985. Seven years later his heirs opened the cottage as an artists‘ residency. In 2003 the “Achill Heinrich Böll Association” bought the cottage from the Böll estate in order to ensure its continued use as an artists‘ retreat. | | It cannot exactly be described as documentary travel writing; Böll took artistic licence and added some fictitious elements, e.g. the copper kettle in the chapter “The most beautiful feet in the world”. Achill became the family’s second home, and they spent many summers in the white cottage on the edge of Dugort village. A consiserable amount of Böll’s writing was done there too, including co-translations with his wife; she translated over 200 works into German, yet Annemarie Böll barely merits an aside in the literature about Böll. Heinrich Böll died in 1985. Seven years later his heirs opened the cottage as an artists‘ residency. In 2003 the “Achill Heinrich Böll Association” bought the cottage from the Böll estate in order to ensure its continued use as an artists‘ retreat. |
| {{#Galerie:More Images|[[Datei:IRELAND_Heinrich-Boell_4.jpg|Heinrich Böll in front of cottage in Keel, Achill Island, Ireland, c. 1956. Photo: Archiv Erbengemeinschaft Heinrich Böll. © Heinrich Böll Fotoarchiv (www.boell-fotos.com)]],[[Datei:IRELAND_Heinrich-Boell_5.jpg|"View from my window" at the cottage in Keel, Achill Island, Ireland, c. 1956. Photo: Archiv Erbengemeinschaft Heinrich Böll. © Heinrich Böll Fotoarchiv (www.boell-fotos.com)]],[[Datei:IRELAND_Heinrich-Boell_6.jpg|From left to right: Heinrich, Annemarie, René and Raimund Böll in front of the cottage in Keel, Achill Island, Ireland, c. 1958. Photo: Archiv Erbengemeinschaft Heinrich Böll. © Heinrich Böll Fotoarchiv (www.boell-fotos.com)]],[[Datei:IRELAND_Heinrich-Boell_7.jpg|From left to right: Heinrich, sister Mechtild, Raimund, Annemarie Böll and unknown on their way to Keem Bay, Achill Island, Ireland, c. 1956. Photo: Archiv Erbengemeinschaft Heinrich Böll. © Heinrich Böll Fotoarchiv (www.boell-fotos.com)]],[[Datei:IRELAND_Heinrich-Boell_8.jpg|The children’s room at the Heinrich Böll Cottage, Dugort, Achill Island, Ireland. Photo: Archiv Erbengemeinschaft Heinrich Böll. © Heinrich Böll Fotoarchiv (www.boell-fotos.com)]]}}{{#newBox:}} | | {{#Galerie:More Images|[[Datei:IRELAND_Heinrich-Boell_4.jpg|Heinrich Böll in front of cottage in Keel, Achill Island, Ireland, c. 1956. Photo: Archiv Erbengemeinschaft Heinrich Böll. © Heinrich Böll Fotoarchiv (www.boell-fotos.com)]],[[Datei:IRELAND_Heinrich-Boell_5.jpg|"View from my window" at the cottage in Keel, Achill Island, Ireland, c. 1956. Photo: Archiv Erbengemeinschaft Heinrich Böll. © Heinrich Böll Fotoarchiv (www.boell-fotos.com)]],[[Datei:IRELAND_Heinrich-Boell_6.jpg|From left to right: Heinrich, Annemarie, René and Raimund Böll in front of the cottage in Keel, Achill Island, Ireland, c. 1958. Photo: Archiv Erbengemeinschaft Heinrich Böll. © Heinrich Böll Fotoarchiv (www.boell-fotos.com)]],[[Datei:IRELAND_Heinrich-Boell_7.jpg|From left to right: Heinrich, sister Mechtild, Raimund, Annemarie Böll and unknown on their way to Keem Bay, Achill Island, Ireland, c. 1956. Photo: Archiv Erbengemeinschaft Heinrich Böll. © Heinrich Böll Fotoarchiv (www.boell-fotos.com)]],[[Datei:IRELAND_Heinrich-Boell_8.jpg|The children’s room at the Heinrich Böll Cottage, Dugort, Achill Island, Ireland. Photo: Archiv Erbengemeinschaft Heinrich Böll. © Heinrich Böll Fotoarchiv (www.boell-fotos.com)]]}}{{#newBox:}} |
| {{#Audio:http://lbs.goethe.de/mediawiki/images/7/7c/IRELAND_Heinrich-Boell_IT-Kapitel-14.mp3|Audio 1|[[Datei:IRELAND_Heinrich-Böll_1.jpg]]||Reading by Heinrich Böll („Irisches Tagebuch“, Kapitel 14: Das neunte Kind der Mrs. D.). Aus: „Irisches Tagebuch (1957). In: Heinrich Böll. Werke. Band 10. Kölner Ausgabe. Hrsg. Von Viktor Böll. © 2005, Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH & Co. KG, Köln.}}{{#newBox:}} | | {{#Audio:http://lbs.goethe.de/mediawiki/images/7/7c/IRELAND_Heinrich-Boell_IT-Kapitel-14.mp3|Audio 1|[[Datei:IRELAND_Heinrich-Böll_1.jpg]]||Reading by Heinrich Böll („Irisches Tagebuch“, Kapitel 14: Das neunte Kind der Mrs. D.). Aus: „Irisches Tagebuch (1957). In: Heinrich Böll. Werke. Band 10. Kölner Ausgabe. Hrsg. Von Viktor Böll. © 2005, Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH & Co. KG, Köln.}}{{#newBox:}} |