The Changing Years

by Martin Morrissey (Author)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $3.39

  In this follow-up to Land of My Cradle Days, life in a close-knit community in West Clare is governed by age-old customs, but change is on the way, and the miracle of the electric light signals the demise of the Tilley lamp and the end of an era. Martin Morrissey casts his own benign light on the characters, rituals and superstitions of a time when long trousers were a sign of manhood and the teacher was still called the Master . This is the story of a boy hurrying into adulthood and a rural community walking backwards into the twentieth century.