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Klondike House - Memories of an Irish Country Childhood
by John Dwyer

In Klondike House, John Dwyer recounts his memories of growing up
on the remote but beautiful Beara Peninsula in West Cork, Ireland. This
was Ireland of the 1970s and 80s before the arrival of the short-lived
economic riches of the Celtic Tiger.

Dwyer's vivid and colorful stories describe his hard but happy life as part of an isolated but close-knit community:

Early school days spent in a building with no running water or electricity
An encounter with a violent sheep that literally turned his world upside down
The days spent cutting the turf and saving the hay by hand
An Irish Christmas where nearly everything on the table was sourced from the farm
His exciting family history that brought his relations to the Klondike Gold Rush in Canada


Complemented by a collection of evocative photographs, each chapter tells of a way of life that has now largely disappeared.
Sprinkled with a selection of fitting works by some of Ireland's
best-known poets such as Seamus Heaney and Patrick Kavanagh, this gem of
a book is a chronicle of the simple but happy life of an Irish farmer
boy