Nineteen Acres. Galway: Kennys, 1978. First Edition. Pp, 138. Portrait frontispiece. Pale bule cloth boards, in pictorial dust jacket. Boards lightly faded, jacket scuffed & price-clipped; contents pages in good condition.

Inscribed by the Author on the front free endpaper.

Healy’s classic account of small-farm life in County Mayo, capturing the hardships, traditions, and resilience of rural Irish communities in the mid-20th century. It serves as an important social record of a vanishing way of life.

John Healy (1930-1991) was a respected journalist and writer, best known for The Death of an Irish Town (1968), which critiqued rural decline. Nineteen Acres complements his earlier work with a more personal, ethnographic perspective.