What is the fine-grained topic of the following text: With this mixed background, he provides the sharp-eyed and affectionate perspective of an outsider on his experiences of childhood and adolescence; schooldays as just one of thirteen children in the local Protestant National School; the day-to-day work on a farm still worked with horses; the rigours of boarding school in Drogheda from the age of nine; the very different scene represented by living in Belfast; simultaneously starting college and farming on his own account. Only return the topic.
A man's personal experiences and journey through childhood, school, and adulthood in different locations