Tales from the ‘Plain People of Ireland’

 

From a series of stories about Life In Rural Ireland in the first half of the 20th century.

In this episode, Jim Crehan talks of growing up on a small family farm in east Galway during the 1930s and 1940s where he enjoyed a Huckleberry Finn type existence in an Ireland that had a strong sense of community spirit and religious faith

 

Young Boy in Rural Ireland