We were rich and we didn't know it : a memoir of my Irish boyhood
Phelan, Tom, 1940-2020
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In the tradition of Frank McCourt's 'Angela's Ashes' and Alice Taylor's 'To School Through the Fields', Tom Phelan's 'We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It' is a heartfelt and masterfully written memoir of growing up in Ireland in the 1940s. Tom Phelan, who was born and raised in County Laois in the Irish midlands, spent his formative years working with his wise and demanding father as he sought to wrest a livelihood from a farm that was often wet, muddy, and back-breaking. It was a time before rural electrification, the telephone, and indoor plumbing; a time when the main modes of travel were bicycle and animal cart; a time when small farmers struggled to survive and turkey eggs were hatched in the kitchen cupboard; a time when the Church exerted enormous control over Ireland.
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Imprint:
New York : Gallery Books, 2020.
Collation:
210 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781501197109 (pbk)
Dewey class:
941.87082092941.87
LC class:
DA965
Language:
English
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BRN:
2622360