The Farm By Lough Gur The Story of Mary Fogarty

by Carbery, Mary

• ISBN13: 9781843511755
• ISBN10: 1843511754
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-02-01
• Publisher: The Lilliput Press

Summary

This memoir captures the lost world of the strong-farm family in post-famine Munster, Ireland. Through Mary O'Brien's memories, which she recounted to Mary Carbery, this book tells the story of middle class Catholics in Ireland, who confidently expected to be the inheritors of the earth in a Home-Rule Ireland. Their world has rarely been evoked so sensitively as in this beguiling and most engaging narrative.

Author Biography

Born Mary Vanessa Toulmin, Carbery was born and raised at Childwickbury Manor, Hertfordshire. Following her husband’s death in 1898, Carbery was left to the run the estate at Castle Freke, County Cork by herself, while raising her family. Amongst her books are The Children of the Dawn, The Farm by Loch Gur, The Light in the Window, Hertfordshire Heritage, The Germans in Cork, Happy World, and West Cork Journal (edited by her grandson, Jeremy Sandford). She is the subject of the second half of the book Happy Memories (Faith Press, 1960), by her sister, Constance Toulmin. She died in 1949.

Table of Contents

I and the Others	p. 1
Father, Mother, Mammy Jug	p. 6
The Magic Lake	p. 13
The Long Day's Work	p. 20
Sundays and Saints' Days	p. 25
A Walk with Father	p. 36
The Grogans. Maids and Matchmakers	p. 41
The Dooleys	p. 49
Callers at the Door	p. 58
Mr. Parnell. God's Fair Innocents	p. 67
Father's Friends	p. 74
Teresa and the German Lady	p. 83
Mary Deasy. My Confirmation	p. 88
The Convent School	p. 94
Easter Holidays	p. 107
The Story of Miss Baily	p. 112
Digging with Antiquaries	p. 120
The Convent School again	p. 134
The Colt goes to the Plough	p. 142
Mother and I	p. 153
May-Eve	p. 157
Wakes	p. 167
The happiest Hours of our Lives	p. 171
The Aunts	p. 176
Hallowe'en	p. 191
Uncle Richard is called away	p. 205
Bessie leaves Home. Mother's Illness and an expensive Cable	p. 210
Mac finds us some 'Beaux'	p. 218
Me-John's Mother	p. 225
Brother	p. 232
Bessie goes to Poland	p. 238
Mother returns to the World	p. 244
A Bolt from the Blue	p. 247
My Romance begins in a great Frost	p. 251
Courtship	p. 259
Marriage	p. 269
Appendix	p. 275
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