Böcker av Ruby Eyre

The beautiful Heritage town of Abbeyleix is not just made up of bricks, mortar, and the beautiful Heritage buildings that are visible within it but must also include the people and the characters and the chancers that have lived here in the town since Viscount John de Vesci first began building this planned Estate town starting in the middle to the late 1700s. The town of Abbeyleix is rich in its history and if you want to get an insight into how some of the people lived their lives in the town going right back to the beginning you can follow the lives of the people that lived in this community right up to the present time in 2023. The beautiful Heritage town of Abbeyleix is not just made up of bricks, mortar, and the beautiful Heritage buildings that are visible within it but must also include the people and the characters and the chancers that have lived here in the town since Viscount John de Vesci first began building this planned Estate town starting in the middle to the late 1700s. The town of Abbeyleix is rich in its history and if you want to get an insight into how some of the people lived their lives in the town going right back to the beginning you can follow the lives of the people that lived in this community right up to the present time in 2023. Carrying on from my first book, The Stories I Was Told: Short Stories of Abbeyleix, my second book, Grandad, Tell Us Another Story, shares more stories of the town of Abbeyleix, the people in it, local legends, and some personal anecdotes

This is a fascinating book, that has been compiled with approximately 35 separate local stories that all relate to the town of Abbeyleix in one way or another. The author has detailed historical accounts about the people and places that were part of the town and parish of Abbeyleix going right back to the 1400's and continued right up to the present day in 2022. It details the lives of some of the people that lived here during the occupation of a foreign force and shows the efforts that some of them made in an effort to gain freedom that the town and our country that had not been experienced in over 700 years of our history. It also describes how the people that lived in Abbeyleix during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries lived their lives, and how they entertained themselves, without the luxury of new technology like, television, wi-fi, computers, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or snap-chat, that we enjoy today. Noel Burke has a keen interest in local history and dedicates a lot of his time to research. Now that he has reached his pension aged years, he spends a lot of his time in the archival research library. He loves spending time with his grandchildren and living here in his native Heritage Town of Abbeyleix along with his wife Patricia.

A story set in World War II that follows brave women who nursed through the war. It tells the story of the sisterly bond formed between the nurses and how this bond carried them through their lives.Remembering Me takes you on a journey of Lucy's life. From the first page, Lucy is remembering faces and memories of her life and through old photographs, she tells her story. At seventy-eight years of age, Lucy never imagined that she would be looking back at her life and mourning a lost time.With her lifelong friend and fellow nurse, Lilian, Lucy recalls her old nursing days and World War II while also recalling old memories and secrets that have been locked away for over fifty years.Lucy tells her brave tale to her daughter and granddaughter but will they be able to accept this new image of Lucy after they hear her story? Will they be able to hear the family secrets that have been locked away for over half a century?