The Lark in the Bower Sang Sad Songs

A record of social history and the autobiography of an Irish boy growing up in Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland during the hungry 1930s who eventually boarded the cattle boat from Dun Laoghaire to England. Remembering time-hallowed old Killarney, the folk I knew including the Butchers, Bakers and Harness Makers; its lustrous lakes, the golden sands of Bunrower and the fruit gardens we frequented that used to puncutate the cloister-calm Muckross Road. Waving goodbye to my native Killarney in 1946 during the Diaspora, I headed for London looking for work.