Walled Gardens: Scenes from an Anglo-Irish ChildhoodThis is a journey both into a time and a place - the South of Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The author describes a childhood outside the main currents of the twentieth century; her parents still went fox hunting and horse racing and relied on readily available servants from a vast and inexpensive work-pool. At the same time they had no central heating, no television, and the roof leaked. Like many other Anglo-Irish families they attempted outlandish and impractical schemes to maintain deteriorating driveways and crumbling houses. This is an affectionate yet unsentimental memoir of a transitional generation, one born too late to benefit from the last years of the Ascendancy, but too early to integrate into the mainstream of contemporary Irish life. |
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| Title | Walled Gardens: Scenes from an Anglo-Irish Childhood |
| Author | Annabel Goff |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Eland Publishing Limited, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0907871429, 9780907871422 |
| Length | 276 pages |
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