From growing up on a farm in tough times to almost becoming a priest before finding his vocation as a psychiatric nurse, Jimmy Carrigan evokes life in rural Fermanagh in the sixties and seventies against the backdrop of the Troubles. Through his vivid recall of skilled farming methods that most have forgotten, daring donkeys, trying to outsmart teachers, the perils of dating, tales of lively characters that touch your heart or make you laugh out loud and with some hilarious personal poetry thrown in for good measure, this is one memoir you won’t forget in a hurry.