β Scribed by Tom Phelan
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**In the tradition of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Alice Taylor's To School Through the Fields, Tom Phelan's We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It __ is a heartfelt and masterfully written memoir of growing up in Ireland in the 1940s. **
Tom Phelan, who was born and raised in County Laois in the Irish midlands, spent his formative years working under his wise and demanding father, JohnJoe, on a farm that was often wet, muddy, and back-breaking.
These stories recount Tom's upbringing in an isolated rural community from the day he was delivered by the local midwife. As a child, Tom became aware that priests lived in warm, dry houses and saw that they never had muck or dung on their polished shoes. He began to dream of becoming a priest and traveling to sunny foreign missions, where he would baptize and teach pagan children.
We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It offers you a glimpse of life in the Irish countryside in the 1940s, a...
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