The Life of Other Days: A Memoir of Cork

by TimCramer (Author)

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  2004

  $4.90

  Tim Cramer describes himself as 'an unrepentant Corkman' with an abiding love of the city, its hinterland and its people. Fortunate to grow up in an idyllic urban/rural environment, he recalls images of a way of life now gone. He also describes emigration and a number of colourful occupations before he entered journalism, which became his life's work. The result is a delightful, personal memoir, pulsating with love of place, of an Ireland which is no more, a gentle time when serenity and the hardship of the daily grind rubbed shoulders. The peace of the countryside co-existed easily with the bustle of industrial Cork. There is little high drama, just the slow unfolding of the seasons, ultimately destroyed by the march of technology.