Breakfast the Night BeforeThis 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 fathers death, working the land and animals (dogs, sheep, horses, cattle), the author recounts with great humour, acuity and

each struggling with their own version of truth

which place so much weight on the act of remembering itself

and a wealth of geographical detail and historical background is explored and explained

She lives in Dublin

from the rat-ridden horrors of the Flanders’ trenches to the leech-infested jungle tracks of Burma

'Ê- Customer review \n \nABOUT THE EDITORS \n \nJOHN WYSE JACKSON

The purpose of Terror in Ireland is not to assign blame to one party or another

the Zurich James Joyce Foundation

battles against censorship and multiple foreign translations from Korea to China

different from the rest

to the post-modernist reckonings of reader in English at the University of London

The author tells their story