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Séamas Ó Catháin was born in Tyrone in 1942 to a family of Catholic business people and farmers. His home town of Drumquin was 'a stone's throw' from the border that separates the Republic of Ireland from the Six Counties of Northern Ireland. This book is an engaging, often eye-opening, account of his experience - as a child and as a young man - in three distinctive cultures, now radically changed.He describes the Tyrone of the 1940s and 1950s...

I have run the gauntlet of many borders in my time, but the border I grew up with at home was far and away the most trying, " writes Seamas OCathain (Professor Emeritus at University College Dublin, and former Director of the National Folklore Collection) of the Irish border - "a border policed by little corporals that was the bane of our lives.

Essays showing links between Ireland and Scandinavia in folklore and literature.