Our Like Will Not Be There Again : Notes from the West of Ireland

Millman, Lawrence

M. Evans& Co Inc（2015/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781590775103
• DDC分類 914.15048612

Full Description

Award-winning travel writer Lawrence Millman tromps through western Ireland's rugged countryside to record the oral history of its people before their hard-earned traditions are permanently stifled by industrialization and development. In doing so he produces a "lovely nugget of good writing" (New York Times) that relays the stories of traditional laborers—tinkers cartwrights, rat-charmers, coopers, thatchers, farriers, gleemen, pig-gelders—with candor and depth.

Contents

Preface
Introduction
Proem...And He Not Far From Quiet Hisself
I. The Shanachie
1. Mackerels Was All Me Life
2. I Only Want to Possess What I Have
3. You Can Tell My Stories Aren't Book Stories
4. My Father Was a Great Man at the Harvesting
II. The Tinker
5. We Could Have All Been Bards
6. The Road is the Best College
7. Listenin' Was a Great Thing Once
III. Body Parts
8. Who Will You Leave Your Hands to When You Die?
9. After me, It'll Be Dead. Poetry, I Mean
10. We Are All Islands
Envoi: The Vanishing