Commpulsive reading.....In this book Healy joins with such great writers as O'Flaherty, O'Donnell, Peig Sayers, Mc Gill, O'Crohan, O'Sullivan in writing a history of the smallholders......Yet the book is much more than just that: it is penetrating in that the writer brings in a hidden dimension, perceiving clearly that the smallholders of Ireland survived only through the sometimes tragic sacrifices of the tens of thousands of emigrants in America, Britain and elsewhere in sending home the regular cheques.