Synopses & Reviews
A memoir of life in Ireland's rural County Donegal. Full of emotional truth and the beauty of immediate, trusting speech, overbrimming with folklore of great imaginative richness. Seamus Heaney. Edited with an Introduction by Brian Friel.
Synopsis
Between evocative, turf-lit pictures of a hardworking peasantry, and matter-of-fact accounts of such shocking practices as rape-marriage, this memoir weaves an astonishingly detailed tapestry of life in the northwest of Ireland in a period just beyond the grasp of living memory.