Beautiful Affair. Mike Hanrahan
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Название: Beautiful Affair

Автор: Mike Hanrahan

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары

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isbn: 9780008308759

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       COPYRIGHT

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      First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

      FIRST EDITION

      © Mike Hanrahan 2019

      Illustration © Charlotte O’Reilly Smith 2019

      Photographs from the author’s personal collection unless otherwise indicated

      Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

      Cover illustrations © Charlotte O’Reilly Smith

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      Source ISBN: 9780008333003

      Ebook Edition © October 2019 ISBN: 9780008308759

      Version 2019-09-10

       DEDICATION

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      CONTENTS

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

       COPYRIGHT

       DEDICATION

       CHAPTER 1 FIREFIGHTER

       CHAPTER 2 DOOLIN

       CHAPTER 3 MAURA O’CONNELL

       CHAPTER 4 TAKE A CHANCE ON ME

       CHAPTER 5 BAND OF BROTHERS

       CHAPTER 6 FINBAR FUREY

       CHAPTER 7 RONNIE, I HARDLY KNEW YA …

       CHAPTER 8 LEGENDS

       CHAPTER 9 VAGABONDS

       CHAPTER 10 BALLYMALOE COOKERY SCHOOL

       CHAPTER 11 LEARNING CURVE

       CHAPTER 12 PAT SHORTT’S BAR

       CHAPTER 13 ELEANOR SHANLEY

       CHAPTER 14 ARTISAN PARLOUR & GROCER

       CHAPTER 15 ENCORE

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

       CHAPTER 1

       FIREFIGHTER

       Farmer John, plough your fields, bring the seed to grain,

       Feed the hungry, fill the belly of the traveller as he sails,

       A weary heart, a tired soul will try come what may,

       Farmer John, plough those fields, help him on his way.

      – ‘Firefighter’, What You Know (2002)

      THE CROSSING

      My parents grew up in the neighbouring farming communities of Barntick and Ballyea in County Clare. As a young couple they chose to start their new life in the burgeoning outskirts of Ennis, which offered opportunities for work and a new rented home in which to raise their young family. In 1957 they moved to the just-built St Michael’s Villas on the edge of Ennis, and there they raised eight children, six boys and two girls: Gerard, Joseph, Kieran, myself, Gabriella, Adrian, John and Jean. I was in the middle; the youngest two were twins. Dad provided and Mother nurtured.

      When we were young, our summers were spent secluded on my grandparents’ farm, a few miles from civilisation. We walked to and from the village of Ballylea every Sunday morning, dressed in our finest to attend Mass at the parish church. The farm was our domain, where our friends were the animals and our sustenance came from the very land we roamed.

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