Quench the Lamp Author:Alice Taylor This collection of vignettes continues the story of author Alice Taylor's childhood in Ireland -- a story begun with her Irish best seller To School Through the Fields. Each piece is a quick, entertaining glance at Irish life in the Forties and Fifties, a life slowly moving to more modern times. Recorded here are the characters, eve... more »nts, and traditions of a rural life that are sadly lost to memory when a society succumbs to technology. Books such as Taylor's preserve for us all an otherwise fading oral tradition.« less