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Growing Up So High

Growing Up So High

A Liberties Boyhood

by Sean O'Connor
Paperback
Publication Date: 24/06/2014

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Se n O'Connor was born in Francis Street, in the Liberties of Dublin, a neighbourhood famous over the centuries for the sturdy independence of its people.

Now, in this evocative and affectionate book, he recollects the unique and colourful district of his childhood: the neighbours who lived there, their traditions, talk and lore, the music and poetry of the laneways and markets.

Remembrances of the 1940s classroom, of bird-watching in Phoenix Park, of roaming towards adolescence in the streets of his ancestors are mingled with tales of ancient ghosts and the coming of change to the Liberties.

O'Connor, father of the novelist Joseph, tells his story with honesty, warmth and style, and the often wry wit of his home-place. This tenderly written testament of one Liberties boy builds into a vivid and heart-warming picture of his own extended family as part of a proud community and its all-but-vanished way of life.
ISBN:
9781444743098
9781444743098
Category:
Biography: general
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
24-06-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hachette Books Ireland
Country of origin:
Ireland
Pages:
352
Dimensions (mm):
196x131x23mm
Weight:
0.29kg

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