An Irish Country Childhood

In the wake of bestsellers such as A Child Called It and The Broken Biscuit, this is the heart-warming story of Marrie Walsh, growing up in the 1930s and 40s as part of an idyllic community in the beautiful County Mayo, West Ireland. Her memoirs take the reader to a time and a way of life now long disappeared, exploring lives that were intricately bound with the natural world in a small, close-knit farming community that was as resourceful as it was poor.

Marrie Walsh was born in Attymass, County Mayo in 1929, the ninth child of a large farming community. She later emigrated to England where she married, but she is now back in the village community she left fifty years ago.