This memoir captures the lost world of the strong-farm family in post-famine Munster, Ireland. Through Mary O'Brien's memories, which she recounted to Mary Carbery, this book tells the story of middle class Catholics in Ireland, who confidently expected to be the inheritors of the earth in a Home-Rule Ireland. Their world has rarely been evoked so sensitively as in this beguiling and most engaging narrative.
Depicts a social hierarchy of dominant men and credulous servants and hangers-on, mirroring the hierarchy of formal religiosity that overlaid the rich landscape of folk belief and custom. This is the same edition as ISBN: 9781843511748
Depicts a social hierarchy of dominant men and credulous servants and hangers-on, mirroring the hierarchy of formal religiosity that overlaid the rich landscape of folk belief and custom. This is the same edition as ISBN: 9781843511748