Mo Laethanta Saoire: Ballybunion and the Big Brown Suitcase

The latest of our summer-themed reads features Alice Taylor's memories of family holidays in Co Kerry 

When you came in the front door of our old farmhouse you were in a small red tiled porch with a door on your right into the kitchen and on your left into the parlour.

The seldom-used parlour was a large low-ceilinged shadowy room with a long oak side board along the back wall and a matching enormous table dominating centre floor.