In Ruin Reconciled

In Ruin Reconciled: A Memoir of Anglo-Ireland 1913-1959 (‘that country of the mind'), tells the story of an orphan girl adopted by Anglo-Irish parents and brought to live in the Big House of Curragh Chase, Adare, Co. Limerick. Her solitary childhood among “elders and betters” during the 1920s was relieved by visits to her grandmother in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, and a brief schooling at Alexandra College, Dublin. Her father was a Chief Justice in the British colonies, so time was spent at vividly