An Irish Country Childhood
Title | An Irish Country Childhood PDF eBook |
Author | Marie Walsh |
Publisher | Metro Publishing |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2010-03-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 185782654X |
'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.
An Irish Country Childhood
Title | An Irish Country Childhood PDF eBook |
Author | Marrie Walsh |
Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Children |
ISBN | 9780753150139 |
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
Title | An Irish Country Childhood PDF eBook |
Author | Marrie Walsh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Farm life |
ISBN |
An Irish Country Childhood
Title | An Irish Country Childhood PDF eBook |
Author | Marrie Walsh |
Publisher | Orion |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2000-05 |
Genre | Farm life |
ISBN | 9780752834412 |
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.
An Irish Country Courtship
Title | An Irish Country Courtship PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Taylor |
Publisher | Forge Books |
Pages | 465 |
Release | 2010-09-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429960612 |
Welcome to the colourful Ulster village of Ballybucklebo, where two doctors work hand in hand to mend the bodies and spirits of the town's diverse and engaging inhabitants. But who is looking after the wounded hearts of the doctors? After less than a year, young Barry Laverty, M.B., is settling in to the village, with only a few months to go before he becomes a full partner in the practice. He's looking forward to becoming a fixture in the community, until an unexpected romantic reversal gives him second thoughts. Will he truly be happy tending to routine coughs and colds for the rest of his career? After all, even when a more challenging case comes along, like a rare tropical disease, all he can do is pass it on to a qualified specialist or big-city hospital. As much as Barry enjoys the rough and tumble of life in County Down, is running a humble GP's shop all he wants out of life? Barry's mentor, Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, is going through some personal upheavals as well. After mourning his deceased wife for decades, he's finally allowed a new woman into his life. But this budding courtship is not going over well with Kinky Kincaid, the doctors' redoubtable housekeeper, who fears having her position usurped by O'Reilly's new flame. Tact, diplomacy, and a fair amount of blarney may be required to restore peace to the household. Meanwhile, life goes on in Ballybucklebo, presenting both doctors with plenty of distractions from their own troubles. From a mysterious outbreak at the local school to a complicated swindle involving an unlucky racehorse, the two partners will need all of their combined wit and compassion to put things right again--just in time for their lives to change forever. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
An Irish Country Practice
Title | An Irish Country Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Taylor |
Publisher | Forge Books |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2017-10-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 076538275X |
Not only has Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly taken a new trainee under his wing, Doctor Connor Nelson, he's also added a spirited Labrador puppy to his ever-expanding household at Number One Main Street. Meanwhile, his trusted partner, young Doctor Barry Laverty, finds himself wondering if he's truly ready to settle down and start a family with his lovely fianc?e Sue. Residence: Saltspring Island, B.C.
The Speckled People
Title | The Speckled People PDF eBook |
Author | Hugo Hamilton |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 94 |
Release | 2011-10-04 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1408171201 |
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.