Breakfast The Night Before Recollections of an Irish Horse Dealer

by Quarton, Marjorie

• ISBN13: 9781901866568
• ISBN10: 1901866564
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-19
• Publisher: The Lilliput Press

Summary

A lovely memoir for lovers of horses and of the farming life. Marjorie Quarton gives a personal view of rural Irish life from the 1930s to the 1970s, describing the upbringing of a Protestant only child on a farm in north Tipperary. Taking over on he

Author Biography

Marjorie Quarton was born in Nenagh in 1930 and educated in Dublin. Her novels include Renegade (1991), No Harp Like My Own (1987), and Corporal Jack (1988). She has written short stories, children's books and standard works on dogs. She also contributes regularly to provincial and national newspapers and magazines.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Starting Young	1	(7)
Family Glimpses	8	(4)
Horse Mad	12	(9)
Dublin in Wartime and Desperate Remedies	21	(7)
Down on the Farm	28	(7)
Unwillingly to School	35	(9)
Beginner's Luck	44	(9)
Going to the Dogs	53	(7)
The Life of Riley	60	(12)
Learning through the Pocket	72	(8)
Breakfast the Night Before	80	(11)
Fundraising	91	(14)
The Creamery	105	(6)
Muck and Money	111	(13)
Never a Dull Moment?	124	(10)
From Point to Point	134	(9)
Horses Change My Life	143	(11)
Guinea-men and Old Men	154	(10)
Some Sharp Customers	164	(8)
Weather and Clocks	172	(7)
Sheep on the Cheap	179	(8)
The Horse on the Half Crown	187	(8)
Sitting It Out	195	(9)
A Late Vocation	204	(12)
Names and Locations of Horse Fairs	216