Author Dennis McIntyre has written a memoir of his life that describes his childhood memories, growing up on his family farm in the foothills of the Ox Mountains in South Sligo. Dennis recounts waiting, as a young migrant, in a London Telephone kiosk to receive a life changing phone call from Ireland.

Dennis recalls a different Ireland, before the coming of domestic water supply for homes and the electrification of rural Ireland in the mid 1960s.

And the foresight of the Minister for Education, Donogh O Malley in announcing the free Secondary Education Act in 1966 which was a game changer.

Remembering a rural Ireland of cattle marts, endless farm tasks, pitch black Winter nights, the lack of telephone or television, ghost stories and fairy tales very prominent in our worldview before the milestone ‘winds of change’ that occurred in the 1960s, transforming the country and its people in so many ways.

His purpose in writing this memoir is to remind everyone how we lived a few generations ago, fadó fadó.