Pádraig Ó Maolchraoibhe was a Spanish teacher who, to this point, has spent 9 or 10 years in countries that speak Spanish (3 and a half years in Ecuador). He learned a bit in Kichwa, he travelled the whole country (24 provinces), he married his wife there, and he decided to understand a society very different than his own and portray it to the Irish speaking world.