From an Irish Market Town

From an Irish Market Town, although essentially an autobiography, is also a very human story that touches on people's lives for close on eighty years in an era that brought such advances in medicine, science and technology as to increase life expectancy by twenty to thirty years. The period that started out with the horse and buggy, steam engines and a very elementary motor car has witnessed the coming of jet planes, space travel, high-speed trains and luxury automobiles. Thanks to television and the mass media, especially paperback books, computers and the Internet, people have achieved more than sufficient knowledge to cope with the general ups and downs of everyday life.

The title of the book would suggest that the origins of the story are in Ireland. But the reader will soon discover that the Manhattan district of New York City holds the clue to the real beginnings and but for happenings there this tale would never have surfaced.

This is the fourth book by the author, Joe Rogers, whose previous works include the historical fiction novel, The Diary of a Scullery Maid and two children's books, The Changeling and The War of the Elves. His stage play Work of Fiction was performed at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool and his poetry has been published in both English and Irish. He lives in Warrington with his wife, Kathleen. They have five children, ten grandchildren and two great grandchildren.