An Irish Country Childhood
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An Irish Country Childhood
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Author : Marie Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Metro Publishing
Release Date : 2010-03-01
An Irish Country Childhood written by Marie Walsh and has been published by Metro Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'As a child I would sit on the stone wall as if hypnotised, imagining that the world ended where the moutains and the sky met and wishing I could stand at the top and touch the heavens.' This enchanting story tells of a young girl's magical childhood on a farm in the west of Ireland during the 1930s and 1940s. It looks at the mountain-village community, one that was poor, though never short of the necessities of life.
Irish Country Childhood
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Author : Marrie Walsh
language : en
Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2004-02
Irish Country Childhood written by Marrie Walsh and has been published by John Blake Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02 with Farm life categories.
This enchanting story tells of a young girl's magical childhood on a farm in the west of Ireland during the 1930s and 1940s. It looks at the mountain-village community, one that was poor, though never short of the necessities of life.
An Irish Country Childhood
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Author : Marrie Walsh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
An Irish Country Childhood written by Marrie Walsh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Farm life categories.
An Irish Country Childhood
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Author : Marrie Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 1996
An Irish Country Childhood written by Marrie Walsh and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Children categories.
The Ireland of Marrie Walsh's entrancing memoir is a place of magic indeed. Born Mary Kate Ferguson in the mountain community of County Mayo, young Marrie grew up in a world lost to us today - a world of spring wells, of peat fires, and of fairies riding on the backs of hares. Her family were farming people, and when they were not nurturing the soil they were telling stories: Spinning webs of legends and heroes around the hearthfires while fiddlers played behind them, they gave everything in her world a sense of wonder that never left her. Half a century later, Marrie Walsh returns to the scenes of her youth in An Irish Country Childhood, the most rich and wondrous book of its kind since Alice Taylor's To School Through the Fields. Return with her, and you'll find a land where every neighbor was family; where hermits and bogey men and ghosts were all equally real, and equally frightening; where time, for just a moment, seemed to have stopped for a leisurely rest.
An Irish Country Childhood
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Author : Marrie Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Orion
Release Date : 2000-05
An Irish Country Childhood written by Marrie Walsh and has been published by Orion this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05 with Farm life categories.
This is the story of a magical childhood on a farm in Mayo during the 1930s and early 1940s. It tells of a young girl, Marrie, and the rural community in which she lives, close to nature and in a land with little worldly wealth.
To School Through The Fields
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Author : Alice Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
To School Through The Fields written by Alice Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Country life categories.
An Irish Childhood
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Author : Peter Somerville-Large
language : en
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
Release Date : 2002
An Irish Childhood written by Peter Somerville-Large and has been published by Constable & Robinson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Authors, Irish categories.
Peter Somerville-Large grew up with his brother Phil in a nursery world at the top of a smart house in Dublin from where they could watch Fitzwilliam Place far below, with the horse-drawn delivery vans, the animals being driven to market, and their father's patients arriving to visit the consulting rooms on the ground floor. The family had houses in the country too, with livestock and vegetable gardens, and a bevy of eccentric relations, among them Edith Somerville (of Somerville and Ross fame). When Peter was five, his father bought an island - twenty bare rocky acres on the north shore of the Kenmare River in County Kerry - which he saw as paradise. There were extraordinary parties, sailing trips, fishing expeditions. An Irish Childhood, beautifully written, takes the reader back to the sensations and excitements of childhood, and paints the most vivid picture of a vanished world - at once so recent, yet so far away.
Klondike House
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Author : John Dwyer
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2012-05-01
Klondike House written by John Dwyer and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In Klondike House, John Dwyer recounts his memories of growing up on the remote but beautiful Beara Peninsula in West Cork, Ireland. This was Ireland of the 1970s and 80s before the arrival of the short-lived economic riches of the Celtic Tiger. Dwyer's vivid and colorful prose describes his hard but happy life as part of a isolated but close-knit community: Early school days spent in a building with no running water or electricity An encounter with a violent sheep that literally turned his world upside down The days spent cutting the turf and saving the hay by hand An Irish Christmas where nearly everything on the table was sourced from the farm His exciting family history that brought his relations to the Klondike Gold Rush in Canada Complemented by a collection of evocative photographs, each story tells of a way of life that has now largely disappeared. Sprinkled with a selection of fitting works by some of Ireland's best-known poets such as Seamus Heaney and Patrick Kavanagh, this gem of a book is a chronicle of the simple but happy life of an Irish farmer boy.
Another Country Growing Up In 50s Ireland
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Author : Gene Kerrigan
language : en
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Release Date : 1998-04-01
Another Country Growing Up In 50s Ireland written by Gene Kerrigan and has been published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From First Communions to CIÉ Mystery Tours – the heartwarming story of award-winning journalist Gene Kerrigan's childhood in Dublin in the '50s In his highly addictive style, Gene Kerrigan effortlessly reconstructs the Ireland of the 1950s and early '60s in which he grew up. An adult world of absolute moral certainties, casual cruelties and mass emigration; for children an age of innocence, but an innocence hemmed in by fear and guilt. In this brilliant and humorous memoir, Kerrigan tells of a world that now seems as distant as another country. Into the details of school, street and family life, of Christmas, First Communion, school violence, CIE Mystery Tours and the arrival of television are woven the political background of the day and recollections of the impact of major figures: Michael O Hehir, Seán Lemass, Eamon 'Dev' De Valera, JFK, not to mention Hector Grey, Shane, Davy Crockett and Audie Murphy. It's a compelling, touching and often very funny account of a happy childhood in a country that was itself far from happy.
The Speckled People
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Author : Hugo Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-10-04
The Speckled People written by Hugo Hamilton and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-04 with Drama categories.
Adapted for the stage from the best-selling memoir, The Speckled People tells a profoundly moving story of a young boy trapped in a language war. Set in 1950s Ireland, this is a gripping, poignant, and at times very funny family drama of homesickness, control and identity. As a young boy, Hugo Hamilton struggles with what it means to be speckled, "half and half... Irish on top and German below." An idealistic Irish father enforces his cultural crusade by forbidding his son to speak English while his German mother tries to rescue him with her warm-hearted humour and uplifting industry. The boy must free himself from his father and from bullies on the street who persecute him with taunts of Nazism. Above all he must free himself from history and from the terrible secrets of his mother and father before he can find a place where he belongs. Surrounded by fear, guilt, and frequently comic cultural entanglements, Hugo tries to understand the differences between Irish history and German history and to turn the strange logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation but not before the long-buried secrets at the back of the parents' wardrobe have been laid bare.