Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Culture and History of an Ulster Community SIGNED
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.
Paperback. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by author in ink at half-title page. 9" X 6". xx, 852pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Spots of faint toning to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Made of the words of the people who live today in the beautiful, embattled countryside of Ulster, Irish Folk History is, in essence, the people's own statement of their past. In story, song, and spontaneous essay, these texts, selected from Passing the Time in Ballymenone, tell of the coming of Christianity, of endless war, of the hardships and delights of rural life.
During a time of trouble, Henry Glassie came into a community of active story-tellers in County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, and in this book he sets their voices--their chuckles, whispers, and anger--before us. The words of Hugh Nolan, Michael Boyle, Peter Flanagan, Hugh Patrick Owens, and their neighbors echo from the page to present a tale that is at once the story of their tiny community and the story of all of Ireland.(Publisher). Good. Item #10335
ISBN: 0253209870
Price: $20.00