Book recommendation

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Mary Carbery's fabulous book The Farm at Lough Gur, an account from interviews of growing up on a wealthy Irish farm in the 1860s, has been republished. Highly recommended. Sample:

Our farm was like a little colony, self-contained, where everyone worked hard and all were contented and happy. Besides the fields, the farmhouse and good out-buildings, there was a quarry, a kiln for burning lime, a sandpit, a turf bog and the productive eel-weir. Eels were sent direct to Limerick market...

At seven [in the morning], when the milking was over, my mother came from her room to receive the milk in the upper or lower dairy according to the season; the lower one, which was reached from the upper by stone steps, was cooler and used in summer. On the stone shelves were rows of flat earthen and glass pans; all was spotlessly clean and fragrant... Here entered in a long file, the head dairywoman and her maids, carrying milk pails on their heads; lowering them carefully, they poured the milk through strainers into huge lead cisterns where the cream for butter-making was to rise, the remainder being strained into flat pans on the shelves. A lovely, homely sight: rich, ivory milk, golden cream - all to be hand skimmed - firm one-pound pats of perfectly made butter ready to be sent off to special customers in Dublin and London; other great pats for home consumption - we children did not spare it - and the bulk of the butter in firkins, each containing seventy pounds, set aside for the butter-buyer to take to market.

moy83

I like that kinda reading . Can it be got on the kindle ?

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Uno momento...

Nope. Here's the publisher:

http://www.lilliputpress.ie/book/144232410/mary_carbery-the_farm_by_lough_gur.html

Send them to me, if you like; I can make an ebook in a few hours, given the book, title page, dedication and copyright page text, a cover image and the ISBN.

Or you could buy it on abebooks.com or alibris.co.uk

Or, of course, there's the library - my local library is fabulous about ordering books for me if they haven't got them - they get them from other libraries, and often also buy copies if the book looks like a good one.

By the way, Carbery sounds like a wonderful character. From Wiki:

Mary Carbery (1867-1949), pen name and married name of Mary Vanessa Toulmin, who married first Algernon, 9th Baron Carbery of Castle Freke, County Cork, Ireland and second Professor Arthur Wellesley Sandford of Frankfield House, County Cork, Ireland. She was born and spent her childhood at Childwickbury Manor, Hertfordshire and died at Eye Manor, Herefordshire. 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 (a warning to the pro-German faction in Ireland of what a German invasion would really be like), Happy World, and West Cork Journal (edited by her grandson, Jeremy Sandford). Her eldest son by her first marriage, John, 10th Baron Carbery, was an Irish nationalist and member of the Kenyan Happy Valley set. Her eldest son by her second marriage, Christopher Sandford, was proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press. She spent much of the early part of the last century crossing Europe in Creeping Jenny, a caravan drawn by white oxen, and is credited with being the first person to install a bath in a mobile home. She is the subject of the second half of the book "Happy Memories" (Faith Press, 1960), by her sister, Constance Toulmin.