Books from the Attic: Treasures from an Irish Childhood by Alice Taylor (English

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Alice Taylor takes a journey back to the 1940s and 1950s in rural Ireland through the well-used schoolbooks that she has kept from that time. Poetry, legends, stories and history evoke a way of life, and pace of life, that's long changed.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

Alice Taylor takes a look back at the well-used schoolbooks she used in her youth in the 1940s and 1950s. Flicking through the pages of the books and recalling poetry and prose she learned at school, Alice reminisces about these texts, how she related to them and how they integrated with her life on the farm and in the village.In her warm, wise way, Alice reflects on poems and stories on topics ranging from birds, trees and nature to fairy tales and legends, and ties them in with her own knowledge and memory of traditional country life.Containing the text of the poems that readers will remember from their own school days, and evocatively illustrated with photographs of the school books and Alice's notes on them, as well as nature, flora, fauna and objects associated with schools of old, this is a reminder of childhood days and a treasure trove of memory.

Author Biography

Alice Taylor lives in the village of Innishannon in County Cork, in a house attached to the local supermarket and post office. Her first book, To School Through the Fields, was published in 1988. It was an immediate success and quickly became the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland.Alice has written nearly twenty books since then, largely exploring her beloved village and the ways of life in rural Ireland. She has also written poetry and fiction: her first novel, The Woman of the House, was an immediate bestseller. Most recently, she wrote a children's picture book with her daughter Lena Angland, called Ellie and the Fairy Door.Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards for her design including The IDI (Irish Design Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year, the IDI Promotional Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning, and a Children's Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning With P: New Poems from Irish Poets. She has illustrated many books, including Best-Loved Oscar Wilde, Best Loved Yeats, The Most Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl O'Neill, a special edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, and A Terrible Beauty by Mairéad Ashe Fitzgerald. She lives in a thatched house in Co. Wexford.

Review

I loved Alice Taylor's To School through the Fields. I loved Alice herself … Even though she was writing about Cork, we had all these characters she wrote about in the book here in Donegal, similar people here that we could identify with … The book is a lovely record of country life in Ireland in those days * Irish Examiner *Warm, wise * Ireland's Own Christmas Annual *The beloved Inishannon-based author also takes a hip down memory lane in this charming chronicle of life in rural Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s, as seen through the schoolbooks she has kept from that time. The poetry, legends, stories and history of her childhood bring back memories of a different way of life * Irish Examiner *It's definitely going to strike a chord with a lot of people * WLR FM's Saturday Café *For your uncle/aunt/grandparents: Books from the Attic by Alice Taylor: Her books have been perennial favourites since Taylor wrote the bestselling To School Through the Fields. Here, she writes about the books she has loved * Good Luck with the Book *

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I loved Alice Taylor's To School through the Fields. I loved Alice herself ... Even though she was writing about Cork, we had all these characters she wrote about in the book here in Donegal, similar people here that we could identify with ... The book is a lovely record of country life in Ireland in those days

Details ISBN1788492692 Author Emma Byrne Short Title Books from the Attic Pages 256 Language English Year 2021 Photographer Emma Byrne ISBN-10 1788492692 ISBN-13 9781788492690 Format Paperback Subtitle Treasures from an Irish Childhood DEWEY 823.914 Publisher O'Brien Press Ltd Publication Date 2021-05-10 Place of Publication Dublin Country of Publication Ireland Illustrations 35 Halftones, color Alternative 9781788492140 Audience General Imprint Brandon UK Release Date 2021-05-10 We've got this

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