Olive Sharkey - Old Days, Old Ways - Irish Rural Life - PB

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This book shows the material things of bygone days, from 1800 to the 1930s, superbly illustrated in folk art style. The text tells of a way of life in the home and on the farm that has now virtually disappeared, and how the needs of life were satisfied. In a fast-paced, modern Ireland it can be difficult to imagine the daily lives of our nineteenth-century predecessors. However, in this book Olive Sharkey reconciles past and present with evocative descriptions of the lives, activities and material possessions of irish people living between 1800 and the 1930s. The implements of the home, the farm, the garden and for home-crafts are recounted, with hundreds of detailed drawings in the authentic folk art style. These once familiar objects - bittles, butterworkers, noggins and truckle beds - are looked at anew in the context of the people who used them and depended on them for their livelihood.

Published by O'Brien Press, 1985, tanning to the page block, and to the edges of the page block internally.