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Once in a green summer

Title
Once in a green summer / Thomas F. Walsh.
Author
Walsh, Thomas F. (Primary school headmaster)
Publication
Cork : Mercier Press, 2001.

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Description
254 pages; 20 cm
Summary
Once in a green summer in the west of Ireland there was a large family that grew up in a small house surrounded by fields. There was fresh water in the well, food to be harvested from the earth and not a plastic bag to be seen. There was love of the land and fear of the Lord, and there was a priest in the family. There was a father who cared for the straightness of his drills and the shape of his corn stacks, whose sons all left and who saw the old world crumble around him. There was a mother who left a well-to-do family to raise ten children in a small cottage and who gave them love beyond measure. It was a world where ghosts were real, where stories were as old as time, where imagination was more powerful than fact. It was a world we once lived in, now vanished forever. The author has put together a delightful collection of memories of that vanished world, seen through the eyes of a child who grew up in the shelter and certainty of its unchanging ways.
Subject
  • Walsh, Thomas F. (Primary school headmaster)
  • Walsh family
  • Walsh family
  • 1900-1999
  • Manners and customs
  • Galway (Ireland : County) > Biography
  • Ireland > Social life and customs > 20th century
  • Ireland
  • Ireland > Galway (County)
Genre/Form
  • Essays
  • Biographies
  • Essays.
ISBN
  • 1856353737
  • 9781856353731
LCCN
2002318584
OCLC
  • ocm49209096
  • 49209096
  • SCSB-1238985
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library