Barefoot in Mullyneeny
Subtitle: a boy's journey towards belonging
By: Bryan Gallagher
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: ISIS Large Print
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780753193723; 9780753193730
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Radio broadcasters; Biography; School principals; Large type books; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: Barefoot in Mullyneeny is Bryan Gallagher's evocative tale of a childhood remembered through the people and landscape of Fermanagh. Bryan chronicles a time when all the big boys went to school in bare feet and secretly watched the Saturday night bands and dances in halls lit by Tilley lamps; where it was known to be nothing less than the biblical truth that if you put a horse-hair across the palm of your hand when you were about to be slapped, the cane would split in two. This remarkable memoir vividly recreates life in rural Ireland in the 1940s and 50s.
Notes: Originally published: London: HarperCollins Entertainment, 2005.