When Youth Was Mine: A Memoir of Kerry 1902-1925

About this book

This is a genuine attic manuscript discovered shortly after the authors death in Swiftwater Pennsylvania in 1990. It is the absorbing true story of a young man growing up in county Kerry over a 23-year period (1902-1925) .It details his personal involvement in the eventful and turbulent years of great political social and historical change in his native County Kerry and Ireland. It also recalls with affection old and rural habits and customs which have since died away. An honest book it provides a vivid and revealing account of the War of Independence and the Civil War. This story is unusual in that we see events through the eyes of a foot soldier rather than a military or political leader. Sensitively written in the authors own unique style it contains much humor and poignancy.