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We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood

By Tom Phelan
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Unabridged — 6 hours, 13 minutes
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By Tom Phelan
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Unabridged — 6 hours, 13 minutes
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“You don't have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift-just being human and curious and from a family will suffice.” -Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming

In the tradition of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Alice Taylor's To School Through the Fields, Tom Phelan's We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It is a heartfelt and masterfully written memoir of growing up in Ireland in the 1940s.

Tom Phelan, who was born and raised in County Laois in the Irish midlan...