Far from the Land An Irish Memoir【電子書籍】[ Thomas J. Rice ]

＜p＞The setting of Far From the Land is rural Ireland in the 1950s. Thomas Rice has written a memoir about a way of life that no longer exists: no running water, no toilets, no electricity, and little access to education, jobs or basic health care. Early on the story plunges into a culture haunted by recent memories of famines and still showing some of the scars from The Great Hunger of the 1840s.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Writing about father-son relationships, the author recalls the night his absentee IRA father returns from England for the first time in ten years. Known as The Voice because of his tenors talent, the impact of his first song, Thomas Moores haunting tribute to the sweetheart of his martyred friend, Robert Emmet, was beautiful. The poem was titled, She is Far From the Land. No one in the kitchen that night ever forgot it. It was the perfect song, sung by the perfect voice, at the perfect time.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Far From the Land has the benefit of five decades of retrospection as the author brings e．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る