We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood

In the tradition of Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes and Alice Taylor’s To School Through the Fields, Tom Phelan’s We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It is a heartfelt and masterfully written memoir of gro…

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