In Ireland long ago / Kevin Danaher

by Kevin Danaher

The author, Kevin Danaher, was asked to write about country ways for country people, his mind went back to the road that went by his home and the main part of the village he lived in, and to the people who moved on it. Many of their ways look strange to us now, more characteristic of the Middle Ages than of the modern world. The chapter titles tell even more: Thatch and Whitewash; The Hearth; The Light and the Fire; Pots and Pans; What did they Eat?; Our Daily Bread; What did they Drink?; Mountain Dew; Tobacco; What did they Wear?; Plough and Spade; The Flail; The Dairy; Carrying Things; Travel by Water; Weighing and Measuring; The Water Diviner; The Forge; 'Come all ye Gallant Irishmen . . . '; The Faction Fighters; Haste to the Wedding; The Hedge School; The Wake; The Funeral; and finally, In Memory of the Dead. You can see the chapters follow one after the other like a story of a life as a peasant person in early Ireland. There are 189 pages beautifully written, almost like prose.

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Published January 1, 1964