Dardo met us at the apartment (despite the fact that we arrived on a Sunday evening flight into Dublin), and was very welcoming and helpful. I had come with a mission: to defend my doctoral their, and the apartment was the perfect home base for this newly minted Ph.D. Communication with Dardo was great throughout, and we had a wonderful stay at his lovely apartment. Excellent books - Bolaño, Cortazer, Cormac McCarthy, Sebastian Barry, Colm Toibim, and Paul Auster, among others.