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Indlæser... O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clareaf Niall Williams, Christine Breen (Forfatter)
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A story of a young couple who abandoned their careers in New York and moved to Ireland tells of their idyllic life in a cottage, surrounded by the beauty and character of the land of their ancestors. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)941.93History and Geography Europe British Isles Munster ClareLC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
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This book was written after their first year in the four-room cottage in West Clare where Chris's grandfather had been born. I had a hard time settling into this account at first. It moved slowly and didn't contain that much interest for me. About halfway through when they began to write about their neighbors and the traditional Irish life most in this rural area still lived, that changed. The music, the storytelling, the descriptions of the local people and how they became friends was what I was looking for. Chris had a relative living close by and they probably would have failed had she not been the support she assumed she should be. From telling them when to plant beans to telling them who to call to help harvest turf for winter fuel, she was an encyclopedia of traditional rural Irish life. Through the years Niall and Christine have had success at writing and she at painting. They still live on the farm, and there are three more books about their lives there. I look forward to reading them and other books they have written as well. ( )