The Last Pool of Darkness
In 1948 Wittgenstein fled the seductions of Cambridge, where he was the unchallenged star of the Philosophy Department, to a friend's holiday cottage in Rosroe, by a little bay on a rugged peninsula of the west of Ireland. "I can only think in the dark," he said, "and in Connemara I have found the last pool of darkness in Europe."
Tim Robinson, The Dark Night of the Intellect
(published in Irish 2 Alec Finlay, Morning Star 2002; and a more extensive version in Connemara Tim Robinson, 2008, Penguin Books)