7%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Jack's World: Farming on the Sheep's Head Peninsula 1920 - 2003
Sean Sheehan
€ 39.00
€ 36.30
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Jack's World: Farming on the Sheep's Head Peninsula 1920 - 2003
Hardcover. Jack Sheehan was one of eleven children born into an impoverished farming family on the Sheep's Head peninsula in southwest Ireland. Growing up in hungry times, he stayed on the farm all his eighty-three years. This book is illustrated with maps and photographs of early documents relating to his farm's history. Illustrator(s): Watson, Ciaran; Gralton, Danny. Num Pages: 244 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; BG; TV; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 936.
Jack Sheehan was one of eleven children born into an impoverished farming family on the Sheep's Head peninsula in southwest Ireland. Growing up in hungry times, he stayed on the farm all his eighty-three years, taking it over when his father died and steadfastly caring for its fields through the dormant 1950s and the better times that came in the decades that followed. He lived to see the eclipse of his farming world and to view with dismay the way encroaching property speculators and consumerism were changing the nature of his landscape. Jack Sheehan was born just as the Irish ... Read more
Jack Sheehan was one of eleven children born into an impoverished farming family on the Sheep's Head peninsula in southwest Ireland. Growing up in hungry times, he stayed on the farm all his eighty-three years, taking it over when his father died and steadfastly caring for its fields through the dormant 1950s and the better times that came in the decades that followed. He lived to see the eclipse of his farming world and to view with dismay the way encroaching property speculators and consumerism were changing the nature of his landscape. Jack Sheehan was born just as the Irish ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atrium Cork
Number of pages
244
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9780955226113
SKU
V9780955226113
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 3 to 5 working days
Ref
99-10
About Sean Sheehan
Sean Sheehan, is a nephew of Jack and he has written a number of books, including a guide to anarchism and a biography of Socrates. He is presently writing a book about Lenin.
Reviews for Jack's World: Farming on the Sheep's Head Peninsula 1920 - 2003