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Memories for My Grandchildren
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781918632132
Publisher: Book Publishing House
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Memories for My Grandchildren is a tender and vivid memoir of growing up in rural County Wexford in mid-twentieth-century Ireland.
Born in 1942 into a large farming family, James Kavanagh recalls a childhood shaped by hard work, strong community, and simple pleasures. From candlelit kitchens and half-door farmhouses to threshing days, winter hunts, and crowded Christmases, this book captures a way of life that has quietly disappeared.
Written for his children and grandchildren, these memories preserve the rhythms of the land, the strength of family bonds, and the dignity of ordinary lives lived with honesty and care. This is not just one man's story, but a portrait of rural Ireland as it once was.
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