John Healy (2) (1930–1991)

On the one hand, this is a journalistic and biased opinion of the last throes of country life in the west of Ireland. On the other, it is a sentimental memoir on life in Charlestown, Co. Mayo, and how Ireland failed to stanch migration from the countryside and from the country in the 1960s. A stronger book when it falls more into the latter, and prophetic at times of where this migration would eventually lead the country.