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02171aam a2200337 4500 001 4B60E2B8BA5A11ED877A553C3DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230304010039 008 200421s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a bl2020009784 020 $a 150119710X 020 $a 9781501197109 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Phelan, Tom, $e author. $t We were rich and we didn't know it. 245 1 $a We were rich and we didn't know it : $b a memoir of my Irish boyhood / $c Tom Phelan. 246 3 $a We were rich and we did not know it. 250 $a First Gallery Books trade paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Gallery Books, $c 2020. 300 $a 210 pages ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a Tom Phelan, who was born and raised in County Laois in the Irish Midlands, spent his formative years working with his wise and demanding father as he sought to wrest a livelihood from a farm that was often wet, muddy, and backbreaking. It was a time before rural electrification, the telephone, and indoor plumbing; a time when the main modes of travel were bicycle and animal cart; a time when small farmers struggled to survive and turkey eggs were hatched in the kitchen cupboard; a time when the Church exerted enormous control over Ireland. We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It recounts Tomâs upbringing in an isolated, rural community from the day he was delivered by the local midwife. With tears and laughter, it speaks to the strength of the human spirit in the face of life's adversities. 520 $a Shares the author's formative years growing up in the Irish midlands in the 1940s, working on his family farm without electricity, telephones, or indoor plumbing. 541 $d 20220707. 600 1 $a Phelan, Tom, $d 1940- 600 1 $a Phelan, Tom, $d 1940- $x Childhood and youth. 650 $a Authors, Irish $y 20th century $v Biography. 651 $a Laois (Ireland) $x Social life and customs $y 20th century. 651 $a Ireland $x Social life and customs $y 20th century. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. 941 $a 1 952 $l TXPC862 $d 20230304010830.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4B60E2B8BA5A11ED877A553C3DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search