Tales From Tipperary: 1

Full of amusement this series of fictional tales starts with a Galwaymans arrival in Tipperarys post-famine days and portrays the daily lives of a hillside community. Written in the colloquial and lyrical language of some of our ancestors it tells - amongst others - such diverse stories as the reliance of families on children rabbit-poaching on the pre-dawn cattle-droving days of a young school-leaver the re-appearance of a dead girl to her newly-born sister...along with a number of love-hate incidents like the townie scorn for a mountainy man at the show-fair before he walks off with the big trophy!