My Mother's Cash Book

"This little note book contains the everyday items purchased by my parents between Sept 1941 and June 1942. It is important to me for several reasons. Firstly it identifies the kinds of products available in a small town in Co. Leitrim during the war years. It also indicates for me the diet, state of health to some extent, and the social habits of my parents in the years before my birth. For example, my mother was a non-smoker yet the frequency with which cigarettes appear tells me something of my father, a man I loved dearly but hardly knew as he died on my sixth birthday. The cash book is in good condition."