Alice Taylor: The Nana [2022] hardback CGRAP lingers long after the last

lingers long after the last page' Elizabeth Fremantle

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search for a fate that they might fashion by their own will

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Alice Taylor: The Nana [2022] hardback CGRAP lingers long after the lastThe Irish nana is a repository of family history, memory and lore. Sometimes, like the Italian nonna, she is also a 'walking cookbook', carrying the old knowledge of how things were best done. Alice's own grandmothers, Nana Taylor and Nana Ballyduane, were the first generation after the Great Famine, born in the 1860s. These women taught their families the Irish traditions and habits of homemaking that survived for centuries, and are now almost gone.