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Privately published, 2015, Dublin, this is a history of the author's locality and boyhood in the 1940's in tHE parish of Clouncagh in West Limerick .
He gives accounts of agriculture, his own education, local figures in education, locality and sport, haymaking and threshing, trips to Limerick city and Newcastle West, the Emergency, rural heritage, the parish, and much more. Very much a personal history, enlivened by the author's own takes. With personal photographs, maps, period photography.
Paperback, 206 pages.
''My aim in this memoir is to fully and fairly reflect the life and times of my native place when I was growing up there in the nineteen thirties and forties. Central to our way of life at that time were the great people of Clouncagh who shaped our lives in a manner that gave us a head start in life. They invested their time and energy in us and asked for little in return. In the order of nature most have long since returned to the primordial elements out of which they came'' ( from the introduction)
