A child's view of her life, framed by her father's romantic tales of Old Ireland and her mother's strong Catholic faith, may not have been considered an ideal upbringing by today's standards. Living in poor tenement housing in a time of war might have been thought of as bleak. Not so, since this story is seen through a child's eyes. Her father's stories and his way of telling them stirred her imagination. These stories never left her while her mother's...