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Sat 07 Jul 2007The doyennes of DingleHard times, happy days, arranged marriages and superstitions inhabit the stories spun from the apron strings of 'na Bibeanna', the Dingle women whose memories have been collected, writes Catherine FoleyEchoes of a disappearing rural lifestyle, where a subsistence economy prevailed and arranged marriages were frequent, sound through the pages of Bibeanna, a new book edited by Brenda Ní Shúilleabháin.