This book, published in the autumn of 1921 was written under a pseudonym 'The hurler on the ditch' and the true author was Emily Ussher (nee Jebb) 1872-1935 of Cappagh House.
She married Beverly Grant Ussher (1867-1956). On his retirement in 1914 they settled at his family home at Cappagh. They had one child, Percival Arland Ussher, writer and philosopher
Emily recorded life at Cappagh and West Waterford during the revolutionary period in an unpublished manuscript.