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St. Patrick's Day is Peachy's favorite day of the year, or quite up there! Last year we were with Malachy McCourt at this celebration....so we were that much more delighted to revisit this book~! We also have a copy released in the 1990s by another name, so if you feel that you are also doing a double-take - no, your memory is not playing tricks on you. This edition newly released by Glitterai is fantastic to read in the days leading up to St. Patrick's Day and also makes a wonderful gift for everyone Irish you know-or those that just wish they were!
If you watched BBC's Call the Midwife, you'll be able to draw parallels to the visuals included in Through Irish Eyes. We loved the candy store on page 39 complete with blind mice. The photography is quite moving and you'll see the stories of the people through their faces in the pictures, especially in their eyes. Centered on the city of Limerick, which is one of Ireland's biggest cities (not so big compared to American standards), this book spans religious reaches to social aspects to health standards and shows you all about life in this era of 1930's-40's Ireland, which we can verify is quite different and much more up-to-date today-Hello Celtic Tiger-Peachy Deegan lived in Cork in the late 1990s.
What we loved most is the Irish spirit, which always looks on the brighter side of life, no matter what the circumstance...particularly when a camera is near! This shows you the truth and is not glossed over; be sure to read Malachy's introduction for further elucidation. Seeing children on the street in this work seems so innocent compared to the streets of New York today. It was delightful to see how they amused themselves with so little, in a time where no one was connected to wired devices...The Cork Examiner, Irish National Archives and many institutional entities were the source of many of the pictures we see in the back.
Through Irish Eyes is Highly Recommended by Whom You Know.
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“That this wonderful work Through Irish Eyes will always be the classic and classical reminder that the poor are always somewhere, and it’s been a long wait for the meek to inherit the earth. Look at this book carefully and keep it close, lest we and our children and their children forget.”
—Malachy McCourt
Angela’s Ashes is one of the greatest memoirs of our age, as author Frank McCourt recounts a childhood of poverty and pain in Limerick, Ireland, during the 1930s and 40s. Since its release in 1996, readers have longed to know this world better, and it is with the publication of Through Irish Eyes: A Visual Companion to Angela McCourt’s Ireland, that they can see firsthand just how the other half lived.
Through a beautifully curated collection of archival photographs presented alongside detailed captions and literary quotes, Through Irish Eyes shows us a world that few who did not live it have ever known. Here we see the beautiful and rugged landscape of the countryside juxtaposed with the darkness of urban poverty in the city’s underside. We are shown a way of life that no longer exists, but is forever captured in these unsentimental images of the Irish way, its people and their struggles, and their small and hard-wrought joys.
With a foreword by Malachy McCourt, author of the acclaimed memoir A Monk Swimming, we are given a rare glimpse into the warms hearts that beats in an often cruel and cold world.
MALACHY MCCOURT (born 1931) is an Irish-American actor, writer, and politician. The author of A Monk Swimming and Bringing Him My Song, he is the younger brother of Frank McCourt.
Through Irish Eyes:
A Visual Companion to Angela McCourt’s Ireland
Foreword by Malachy McCourt
February 2013 * Irish History
ISBN-13: 978-0985169671
64 pages, 9.8 X 10.25 inches, hardcover,
75 b/w photographs and documents, $30.00
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