Breakfast the Night Before

Download or read book Breakfast the Night Before written by Marjorie Quarton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work combines two volumes of memoir Breakfast the Night Before and Saturday's Child. It offers a personal view of Irish rural life from the Economic War of the 1930s to the farming boom and recession of the 1970s, and 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 on her father's death, working the land and recounting with humour her dealings from the age of 17, at fairs throughout the country - Limerick, Kilrush, Cahirmee and Clonmel.