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Published by De Búrca, Dublin, this being the 4th printing. Paperback with flaps, Photographs and line drawings throughout. Signed byu the author to teh title page, , dated 23/5/97
Recollections of growing up in rural Mayo of the thirties and forties. With an introduction by Dr. Tom Mitchell. Illustrated by Gerry O’Donovan and front cover watercolour by James MacIntyre. Map on end-papers. Dublin: De Búrca, 2002. Fourth edition. pp. xii, 211. Illustrated French flaps.
A deeply personal collection of memories and a valuable account of Irish history including cattle fairs, threshing, rural electrification, interspersed with stories of the matchmaker, the town crier, the chimney sweep and the blacksmith.
(The line drawings are excellent , btw! )
