An Irish Country Childhood

We Were So Young Back Then and Every Day Was a New Adventure

Marie Walsh

• Publisher: Metro Publishing
• eBook ISBN:
  9781857826548
• Year: 2010

'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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• PREFACE
• CHAPTER 1 : HOME
• CHAPTER 2 : OUR SCHOOL
• CHAPTER 3 : THE VISIT TO MY GRANDPARENTS
• CHAPTER 4 : GREAT-AUNT ELLEN
• CHAPTER 5 : SUNDAYS AND HOLY DAYS
• CHAPTER 6 : THE MISSION
• CHAPTER 7 : PAT AND MARY
• CHAPTER 8 : THE SISTERS
• CHAPTER 9 : DENNIS AND HIS MOUNTAIN DEW
• CHAPTER 10 : THE CAPTAIN
• CHAPTER 11 : THE BOGEY MAN
• CHAPTER 12 : THE HERMIT
• CHAPTER 13 : TOM AND SLIPPY
• CHAPTER 14 : KITTY AND LARRY
• CHAPTER 15 : THE TOFF
• CHAPTER 16 : GREAT-UNCLE HAMISH
• CHAPTER 17 : THE BRIDEOGS
• CHAPTER 18 : LENT AND ST PATRICK’S DAY
• CHAPTER 19 : THE NEIGHBOURS
• CHAPTER 20 : THE THRESHING
• CHAPTER 21 : TOPSY AND POLLY
• CHAPTER 22 : TINKERS
• CHAPTER 23 : THE TRAMP
• CHAPTER 24 : COUSIN JOHN
• CHAPTER 25 : AEROPLANE
• CHAPTER 26 : MATCH-MAKING AND WATTLING
• CHAPTER 27 : THE WAKE
• CHAPTER 28 : THE O’FLYNNS
• Copyright
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