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Books from the Attic: Treasures from an Irish Childhood
Alice Taylor
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Description for Books from the Attic: Treasures from an Irish Childhood
Hardcover.
Alice Taylor takes a look back at the well-used schoolbooks she used in her youth in the 1940s and 1950s. Flicking through the pages of the books and recalling poetry and prose she learned at school, Alice reminisces about these texts, how she related to them and how they integrated with her life on the farm and in the village. In her warm, wise way, Alice reflects on poems and stories on topics ranging from birds, trees and nature to fairy tales and legends, and ties them in with her own knowledge and memory of traditional country ... Read more
Alice Taylor takes a look back at the well-used schoolbooks she used in her youth in the 1940s and 1950s. Flicking through the pages of the books and recalling poetry and prose she learned at school, Alice reminisces about these texts, how she related to them and how they integrated with her life on the farm and in the village. In her warm, wise way, Alice reflects on poems and stories on topics ranging from birds, trees and nature to fairy tales and legends, and ties them in with her own knowledge and memory of traditional country ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The O'Brien Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781788492140
SKU
9781788492140
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Alice Taylor
Alice Taylor lives in the village of Innishannon in County Cork, in a house attached to the local supermarket and post office. Since her eldest son has taken over responsibility for the shop, she has been able to devote more time to her writing. Alice Taylor worked as a telephonist in Killarney and Bandon. When she married, she ... Read more
Reviews for Books from the Attic: Treasures from an Irish Childhood
I loved Alice Taylor’s To School through the Fields. I loved Alice herself … Even though she was writing about Cork, we had all these characters she wrote about in the book here in Donegal, similar people here that we could identify with … The book is a lovely record of country life in Ireland in those days
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