My Village, My World

My Village, My World

Author:

Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0946645159

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A fascinating account of the lives of ordinary people in the Irish countryside of half a century ago.


'Tinkers'

'Tinkers'

Author: Mary Burke

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2009-07-16

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0199566461

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Irish playwright J.M. Synge created influential but misunderstood representations of travellers or 'tinkers'. This work traces the history of the 'tinker' back to medieval Irish historiography and English Renaissance literature and forward to contemporary US screen depictions.


The Bogman

The Bogman

Author: Walter Macken

Publisher:

Published: 1952

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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An orphan returns from Dublin to live with his tyrannical grandfather in a small village in the country. Walter Macken paints a memorable portrait of the hard life of subsistence farming, of loveless arranged marriages, and of rebellion against suffocating social mores.