About The Author

Donal Foley was born in the Ring Gaeltacht in 1922 and grew up in Ferrybank.

He worked as a journalist and editor at The Irish Times. He is perhaps best know for a satirical column called Man Bites Dog which he wrote from 1971 until his death in 1981.

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Three Villages

An Autobiography

Donal Foley

(with Introductions by Maeve Binchy and Mary Maher)

Donal Foley's memoirs are comparable with Laurie Lee's Cider With Rosie. But such a comparison is only half the story.

Donal's recollections are indeed funny, poignant and tender. But he also leads us through great trauma in Irish history - the strife between Blueshirts and Republicans; emigration; endemic poverty; the collapse of indigenous Gaelic speaking communities.

Three Villages is more than a memoir, it is a living history of Ireland by a man who has written about it for three decades. This book will teach you as much about Ireland as any history book. Here, through the inimitable pen of Foley, Ireland comes alive.

"One of Donal's great strengths is that he can recall and be absorbed by his past, by the culture that was De Valera's Ireland, and yet not become a prisoner of it ... a wonderful observer of human life and a great communicator." - Maeve Binchy.

"Donal Foley was a superb writer and storyteller and his 1977 memoir was a joy to read. A new generation will be enthralled by the author's journey from Ring and Ferrybank, to the post of news editor at The Irish Times where he was one of the most influential and crusading journalists of his era." - John O'Connor, The Munster Express.

Three Villages - an Autobiography by Donal Foley
Non-Fiction; Autobiography
130 pages. With introductions by Maeve Binchy and Mary Maher
First published in Ireland in 1977 by the Egotist Press. This edition published 2003 by Ballylough Books
ISBN: 0-9533704-3-7

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See also, Rhyming Poetry Revived: A Pocket Book of Rhyming Verse, Old and New edited by Tom Fewer.

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