Old Days, Old Ways

Olive Sharkey has worked as an architect's draftsperson, and after her marriage she began writing and drawing and contributing to newspapers and magazines. Her other interests include natural history and photography. Tilmothy P. O'Neil, author of Life and Traditions in Rural Ireland and for eight years affiliated with the Folk Life Section of the National Museum of Ireland, teaches history at the Carysfort College of Education.

The research that went into the hook was obviously meticulous and painstaking, but equally obviously it was a labour of love.-- "The Irish Times" This book is a major contribution to Irish folk history--to the lifestyle that shaped if not us then certainly our parents and grandparents.-- "Irish Post"