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Ballylin: Memories of Life in a Small Irish Village Paperback – January 16, 2014

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  • Paperback: 126 pages
  • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (January 16, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 149446912X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1494469122
  • Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.3 x 8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars
By Jennifer L. Forbes on January 29, 2015
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well done book
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5.0 out of 5 starscustomers of the bar and grocery operated by her much loved Granny, their friends
By Brian Byrne on September 27, 2014
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If Ballylin didn't exist, Joan Comiskey would have had to invent it, writes Brian Byrne. But she didn't need to. It is really the village of Ballylinan near Athy, Co Kildare in Ireland, where the New Jersey resident of many years grew up. Her book 'Ballylin' is the people of the village, her family, customers of the bar and grocery operated by her much loved Granny, their friends, acquaintances, and other characters.

Joan Comiskey has not only a great recollection of growing up in 1930s Ireland, and later, but she also has a beautiful way of telling the stories that make up this short but enthralling book. It can be read at a sitting, or dipped into for vignettes of what clearly was a happy childhood and teenage years. Not necessarily easy ones, because times were tough in Ireland then. The Shortalls were luckier than many, they had a business to support them. But Granny Shortall had lost her husband young, and two of her children too. And Joan's mother had returned from America with three little ones after just a few years of marriage, leaving her husband behind. Joan's Granny held it all together.

Here I must declare an interest. Katie Agnes Shortall, née Byrne, was my grand-aunt, my grandfather's oldest sister. In the picture of her that graces the prologue to 'Ballylin', I can clearly see my grandfather's face, and therefore also my father's, and even my own at this stage of my life.

In Joan's account, there's a certain amount of detail about Katie Agnes, but there's much more reflection of her strengths in the description of her interactions with the other characters of the village, and with both the close and the wider family itself.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA taste of Irish living.
By Marianne S on September 27, 2014
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Delightfully Irish!
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5.0 out of 5 starsWhat a Charm!
By Shara A. Rondon on March 6, 2014
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I just finished reading this book and it was absolutely charming. I couldn't put it down but even so it was a nice quick read. The collection of memories let me see right through the eyes of the author. I loved it!
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