Irish Country #4
An Irish Country Girl
Patrick Taylor, Terry Donnelly (Narrator )
And for this volume we jump back 40 years in time for a back-story involving Kinky Kincaid Dr. O'Reilly's redoubtable housekeeper and office manager. And to read this edition we have an Irish Female Actress whose brogue is quite noticeable.
To begin Kinkie is telling the local kinder a traditional Irish tale, the questions the children ask supplying background. Using a spider web in place of a bandaid to seal a cut finger is a folk remedy that's new to me.
A bottle of poteen falling and breaking a major tragedy. A sheep doesn't exist but believes the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.
Kinkie's tale proves to be a story from her past and leads us directly to her life as a sixteen year old.
The man with whom she falls in love proves to be a fisherman who hews to the firm belief that no wife of his should demean him as a provider by working outside the home conflicting with her ambition to become a teacher. It is his death at sea that frees her to travel and meet up with Dr. O'Reilly.
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