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Review title: Poignant remembrance of a lost time and world
Product review: Starting in 1932 when he was 18 David Thomson spent over ten years as tutor in the Kirkwood household, mostly at their estate at Woodbrook House in County Roscommon. Beyond his love for the family, particularly the luminescent daughter Phoebe, and the local people, Thomson includes vast amounts of Irish history -- the revolts, the poverty, the clearances, the starvation times, and the religious conflicts, up to the years of the finally successful fight for independence and then the civil war, shortly before his arrival as a youthful tutor. Despite the vast cruelties that he clear-sightedly portrays and the passing of what in the 20th century was still almost a feudal society, Thomson never loses his affection and interest in the people, whether one calls them Irish, Anglo-Irish, Protestant, Catholic, or what have you. It's a beautifully told and poignant story of Ireland between the world wars, an Ireland that is lost.
