Memoirs of A Happy BelfastmanBorn to a Quaker family of biscuit manufacturers in Belfast on 7 November 1890 and schooled at Sidcot in England, Arnold Marsh embarked on an odyssey into the New World, leaving for Canada at the age of twenty one with his sister Sylvia within months of the ill fated Titanic, on her maiden voyage to New York. Spanning over eighty years, Arnolds experiences and observations convey a boundless sense of humour, respect, tolerance and self discipline in

long settled in France

as the Holocaust continues to be a living presence in European life and culture

It first appeared two years before Ireland was to join the EEC as a self-published catalogue by Jack Fitzsimons from his Kells Art Studios in County Meath

and treat their marginalized lives with celebratory dispassion

though the overall effect is of effortlessness

Experienced largely as a conflict between traditional aspiration and modern realism

yet fear what they may lose

plants and animals

natural history and the visual arts

Irish nationalist

or social life down the years

saints and ancestors – that relate to the wanderings and minglings of all the great tribes of Europe’