[bksvol-discuss] May the Luck of the Irish Reading Be With You
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:59:59 -0400
Dear Booksharian Friends, Irish and Otherwise,
Thanks to the scanning of Evan and Jamie, honorary Leprechauns, the following
books are in, or soon will be in the Bookshare Collection.
Folktales of the Yeat's Country, a Bso with picture descriptions and daisy
navigation added
Letters of a Love Hungry Farmer, the fourth book I've added by the wonderful
John Keane, a humorous, poignant read for men and women,
Fifty-two-year-old John has television, bingo and the pub but no wife. In
letters he hilariously and with anguish describes his failure-ridden love life
and pleads for help to find a woman with whom he can do the jig-a-jig-caper.
He's too slow,too fast, and ultimately unable to fathom womankind. In under a
hundred pages Keane reveals a serious dilemma experienced by single Irish
farmers.
Tea and Green Ribbons A Memoir by Evelyn Doyle,
Seven-year-old Evelyn and her five younger brothers are deserted by their
mother. After placing the children in residential care while he finds a way to
provide for them, their distraught father is denied custody of them. All of
Ireland benefits from his long, determined legal battle to reunite his
family.This account is at once disheartening and uplifting. The movie, Evelyn,
was based on this book finely performed by Irish actors. The child care given
by the nuns was strict by today's standards, but not unduly harsh or unkind.
One of the points is that even when the father regains custody of his children,
nothing can compensate for the changes in them after two years in custodial
care.
Woodbrook, by David Thomson recounts the life in a country house of a
landowning family on land forcibly taken from the Irish, three acres per
family. Thomson is hired to tutor two little girls but he becomes a farmer,
very attached to Woodbrook. His memories of his time there between the mid
1930s and 1940s is interspersed with his accounts of historic events from his
research and stories told to him by the locals about English occupation and the
tensions between the Irish and English. This book is full of facts and lush
descriptions of the Irish countryside, 340 long print pages with chapter notes
at the end.
Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland, by Tomie dePaola. Written for children, you
can read this thumbnail sketch of Saint Patrick's life in under five minutes.
On the way ...
Saint Brigid and the Cows by Eve K. Betz, About 50 pages of easy reading, but
much more text than the book about St. Patrick. This is an easy Reader with
many pictures described using the vocabulary level in which the book is
written.
Daniel O'Rourke by Gerald McDermott, a young children's story with beautiful
pictures described. Daniel eats too much green cheese and goose liver and on
the way home is swept away by a river into a nightmare.
Three Wishes for Jamie, by Charles O'Neal, about 350 large print pages, part
historic romance and part Irish fable about a young man who wishes for enough
travel to make him homesick, a wife, and a son who will speak the language of
the ancient bards.
Tales from Old Ireland Malachy Doyle,
Favorite Fairytales Told in Ireland by Virginia Haviland
A Pot of Gold: A Treasury of Irish Stories, Poetry and Folklore and of Course,
Blarney by Kathleen Krull, Pictures will be described and poetry formatted when
the book gets to me from Amazon.
May you find happiness in every direction you take and more the next day and
the next and the next ...
Happy Saint Patrick's day from Evan and our dogs Blackberry McPie and Pippin
O'Roo and me.
Always with love,
Lissi
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