Breakfast the Night Before: Recollections of an Irish Horse Dealer

by Marjorie Quarton

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1901866564
• ISBN13: 9781901866568
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Lilliput Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"