Green Fields: A Journey of Irish Country Life.
Author: RYNNE, Stephen (Introduction By Alice Taylor).
Dingle: Brandon, 1995. 252 pages. Paperback.
Before agriculture became a matter of filling in forms, of headage payments, subsidies and set-aside, there was farming. And no one wrote about the farming life with as much insight as Stephen Rynne.
First published in 1938, Green Fields summons up with unerring accuracy and unrivalled insight the changing tasks of the seasons, the rituals of tilling and setting, of harvest and market. From the naming of cattle to the choice of seed potatoes and apples, the details of rural life are recorded with the true countryman’s eye, with humour and affection but without sentimentality.
ISBN: 086322203X
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