RT Radio s Countrywide launches book at National Ploughing

RT Radio 1 s Countrywide launches book at National Ploughing 23 Sept 2015: Earlier this year, a call went out on RT Radio 1s Countrywide (Saturdays, 8.10am) and in the Irish Farmers Journal for people to share their stories of growing up in rural Ireland

Over the summer, people's penned recollections were sent in to Countrywide and the Irish Farmers Journal in droves. Radio and print joined together to publish this treasure trove of stories, from 50 different authors, in a book published by Ballpoint Press: Around the Farm Gate.

Around The Farm Gate was fittingly launched at the RT stand at the National Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, Co. Laois today, Wednesday 23 September at 12.30pm.

Damien O'Reilly, presenter of Countrywide, says of the book: The stories published in Around the Farm Gate are a brief snapshot in time as they capture the activities of people striving to earn their daily bread in different settings across the country As time moves on and technology advances daily, we are become an increasingly urbanised country. As such, we at Countrywide teamed up with the Irish Farmers Journal and Ballpoint Press to preserve these tales of rural Ireland for posterity, so that future generations can have an accurate retrospective of how life was and how things worked when Ireland was primarily a rural and agricultural society.

This book offers a rare glimpse of our recent history, encapsulating and preserving the traditions of several generations in a rapidly disappearing rural landscape.

The collection is a collaboration between Countrywide on RT Radio 1, the Irish Farmers Journal and Ballpoint Press Ltd and is being launched at the National Ploughing Championships on Wednesday 23 September at the RT stand: 12.30pm

In association with the Irish Farmers Journal and Ballpoint Press

For further information:

Maureen Catterson

RT Radio Communications Manager

E: Maureen.catterson@rte.ie

T: 087 780 0737

LINK:	http://www.rte.ie/about/en/press-office/press-releases/2015/0924/72992...
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