A Social History of Rural Ireland in the 1950s: Remembering Crotta (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781527503571)

This book offers a brief history of Crotta Great House, County Kerry, Ireland, now in ruins, where Horatio Herbert Kitchener spent his boyhood years. These ruined walls, which rose out of the ashes of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, loom large throughout the authorâ (TM)s own childhood years; their crumbling remains both a monument to and an echo of the past.

Part memoir and part social history, it interweaves historical research with the authorâ (TM)s own personal memories to create an unsentimental snapshot of a moment in Irelandâ (TM)s recent past embedded within a broader historical backdrop. The writing shifts seamlessly between the past and present tense to graphically portray experiences of growing up in the prevailing culture and conditions of the time â " bringing to life the atmosphere of the 1950s and â (TM)60s in rural Ireland as seen through the eyes of a child.

Author: John Galvin
ISBN-10: 1527503577
ISBN-13: 9781527503571
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2018
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback