The Parish
Published on 1. September 2014
224 pages
978-1-84717-593-9 (ISBN)
Description
In a series of vignettes of life in her village, Alice Taylor reasserts the priorities of public space and local community. The Parish evokes and explores the positive values of community, which could be renewed and reinvigorated for a present and future that achieves harmony between comfort and the pressing need to respect the environment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
Publishing group
O'Brien Press Ltd
File size
0,80 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84717-593-9 (9781847175939)
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Person
Alice Taylor lives in the village of Innishannon in County Cork, in a house attached to the local supermarket and post office. Her first book, To School Through the Fields, was published in 1988. It was an immediate success and quickly became the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland.
Alice has written nearly twenty books since then, largely exploring her beloved village and the ways of life in rural Ireland. She has also written poetry and fiction: her first novel, The Woman of the House, was an immediate bestseller. Most recently, she wrote a children's picture book with her daughter Lena Angland, called Ellie and the Fairy Door.
Alice has written nearly twenty books since then, largely exploring her beloved village and the ways of life in rural Ireland. She has also written poetry and fiction: her first novel, The Woman of the House, was an immediate bestseller. Most recently, she wrote a children's picture book with her daughter Lena Angland, called Ellie and the Fairy Door.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Parish People
- CHAPTER 1: Recording Roots
- CHAPTER 2: A Step in Time
- CHAPTER 3: The Beekeeper
- CHAPTER 4: Decades of Damp
- CHAPTER 5: More than the Money
- CHAPTER 6: My Two Wise Men
- CHAPTER 7: Will You Buy a Ticket?
- CHAPTER 8: Through the Eyes of a Child
- CHAPTER 9: Innishannon Creates It
- CHAPTER 10: Cleaning Up
- CHAPTER 11: The Kind Garden
- CHAPTER 12: The Unveiling
- CHAPTER 13: Quacking Time
- CHAPTER 14: An Enchanted Evening
- CHAPTER 15: Don't Change Anything!
- CHAPTER 16: The Parish on Canvas
- CHAPTER 17: The Day After an Ordinary Day
- CHAPTER 18: The Grief Road
- CHAPTER 19: In the Shelter of Each Other
- CHAPTER 20: The Oldest Swinger in Town
- CHAPTER 21: A Challenge
- Also by Alice Taylor
- Copyright
