Book Details
| Author: | McGowan, Joe: |
| Title: | Echoes of a Savage Land. |
| Published: | Cork: Mercier Press, 2001. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 19 - Irish |
| Description: | Paperback. 400 pp. With 29 superb b/w photographic illustrations. A wonderful account of Ireland's disappearing traditions and customs practiced by the common rural people of the land. "'Echoes of a Savage Land' is a magical doorway into lost worlds and a way of life unchanged for centuries". Includes accounts of Witch Hares and Rhyming Rats, Cutting the 'Cailleach and Harvest Knots, Blood Sacrifices, Mummers and Wren Boys, Corncrakes and Blackbird Pie, Quern Stones and Stirabout, Poit?n Stills, Haunted Houses and Satanic Card Games etc. Laminated illustrated paper covers. Overall condition Fine. Signed by the author. |
| Book Number: | #3864 |
| Price: | € 17.00 |
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