Maura's Boy by Christy Kenneally

Maura's Boy by Christy Kenneally

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This autobiography describes the first ten years of the life of Christy Kenneally, a working-class Cork northsider who lost his mother when he was five years old. It provides a social history of Cork, lightly touching on the schism between northside and southside from 1948-1958.

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Maura's Boy by Christy Kenneally

This autobiography describes the first ten years of the life of Christy Kenneally, a working-class Cork northsider who lost his mother when he was five years old. The book captures the sorrow and the compensating love given by his father, Dave, his grandparents and a regiment of aunts, uncles and cousins. The life is a simple one, yet full of the adventures provided by the Lane and the Quarry, and other places in the wonderland that formed the landscape of his childhood. The picture of the city, with the lightly expressed, but fundamental schism between northside and southside, is a piece of social history dating from 1948-1958, when the city had near-full employment, and hurling and films were the preoccupation of its youth.
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ISBN 13 9781856351515
ISBN 10 1856351513
Title Maura's Boy
Author Christy Kenneally
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The Mercier Press Ltd
Year published 1996-10-01
Number of pages 128
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.