Gathering Carrageen

As a child growing up in Belfast in the 1950s, Monica Connell spent the summer holidays in Donegal, Ireland. In the 1990s, by then an anthropologist and author, she returned to Donegal with her husband. This is the story of that the harsh beauty of the landscape & elements, and the sense of fun & community in the face of tensions between tradition and modernity. ""This heartening and heartfelt book is the autobiography of a soul.""--Irish Voice