Patrick Joyce - Remembering Peasants: A personal history of a vanished world

Remembering Peasants is an intriguing book. It is a study of peasants and their culture, mainly through a sort of comparative study of Irish, southern Italian and Polish peasants and agricultural communities. Patrick Joyce places himself at the heart of the story - he is a "London-born child of Irish rural immigrant parents" and the book is his "homage to my own".It is both a personal and a