'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.
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Marie Walsh. An Irish Country Childhood
An Irish Country Childhood
CONTENTS
PREFACE
HOME
OUR SCHOOL
THE VISIT TO MY GRANDPARENTS
GREAT-AUNT ELLEN
SUNDAYS AND HOLY DAYS
THE MISSION
PAT AND MARY
THE SISTERS
DENNIS AND HIS MOUNTAIN DEW
THE CAPTAIN
THE BOGEY MAN
THE HERMIT
TOM AND SLIPPY
KITTY AND LARRY
THE TOFF
GREAT-UNCLE HAMISH
THE BRIDEOGS
LENT AND ST PATRICK’S DAY
THE NEIGHBOURS
THE THRESHING
TOPSY AND POLLY
TINKERS
THE TRAMP
COUSIN JOHN
AEROPLANE
MATCH-MAKING AND WATTLING
THE WAKE
THE O’FLYNNS
Copyright
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we were so young back then and every day was a wonderful new adventure
