Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh & the Lanes: Old Cork Remembered

by Michael Verdon

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0862782996
• ISBN13: 9780862782993
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: O'Brien Press
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Corky and Quirky

I wrote this book because I was an American living in Ireland, and saw a way of life dying in front of me. And nobody was doing anything about it. So I interviewed about 40 or 50 older people about their lives, their dreams, their sorrows, and weaved some history around it to bind it into a book. But basically it's a collection of different voices adding to a portrait of an Ireland that's now gone. It's a colorful collection, I think, and fairly easy to read. But I also wanted it to be very human and touching. It has been some time now since I've read it, but I picked it up the other day, and read a few pages. I think it's a good book, not a great book. But I did the best I could at the time, and I think my efforts to honor this passing age were fruitful. If you buy it, I hope you enjoy it. Good luck.