Breakfast The Night Before
Recollections of an Irish Horse Dealer
Published on 19. December 2000
137 pages
978-1-84351-219-6 (ISBN)
Description
This sparkling memoir gives a personal view of Irish rural life from the Economic War of the 1930s to the farming boom and recession of the 1970s. It describes the upbringing of a Protestant only child on a farm near Nenagh in north Tipperary-an idyll interrupted by school in Dublin during the 1940s. Taking over the farm on her father's death, working the land and animals (dogs, sheep, horses, cattle), the author recounts with great humour, acuity and poignancy her dealings, from the age of seventeen, at fairs throughout the country-Limerick, Kilrush, Cahirmee, Thurles, Ballinasloe, Spancilhill, Clonmel-a lone woman in a man's world. With rare brio and eye for character, incident and idiosyncrasy, Quarton lovingly documents a world of country people, eccentric relatives, home cures and recipes, and unaffected living. Breakfast the Night Before is both entertaining and enduring.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin 7
Ireland
File size
0,47 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84351-219-6 (9781843512196)
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Book
12/2000
The Lilliput Press Ltd
€32.37
Shipment within 3-4 weeks
Person
Marjorie Quarton
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER ONE : Starting Young
- CHAPTER TWO : Family Glimpses
- CHAPTER THREE : Horse Mad
- CHAPTER FOUR : Dublin In Wartime and Desperate Remedies
- CHAPTER FIVE : Down on the Farm
- CHAPTER SIX : Unwillingly to School
- CHAPTER SEVEN : Beginner's Luck
- CHAPTER EIGHT : Going to the Dogs
- CHAPTER NINE : The Life of Riley
- CHAPTER TEN : Learning through the Pocket
- CHAPTER ELEVEN : Breakfast the Night Before
- CHAPTER TWELVE : Fundraising
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN : The Creamery
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN : Muck and Money
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN : Never a Dull Moment?
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN : From Point to Point
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN : Horses Change My Life
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN : Guinea-men and Old Men
- CHAPTER NINETEEN : Some Sharp Customers
- CHAPTER TWENTY : Weather and Clocks
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE : Sheep on the Cheap
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO : The Horse on the Half Crown
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE : Sitting It Out
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR : A Late Vocation
- Copyright
