Barefoot in MullyneenyBryan Gallagher2005

Barefoot in Mullyneeny is Bryan Gallagher's evocative tale of a childhood remembered through the people and landscape of County Fermanagh in Northern Irland. Whether relating tales of murderous bicycle chases through the darkened streets of Cavan, of feasts of strength, of tragedies and murders, or of the anguish of emigration, of rites of passage and swimming to Rabbit Island, this remarkable memoir vividly recreates life in rural Ireland in the 1940s and 50s.