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Title: GROWING UP SO HIGH
A LIBERTIES BOYHOOD
By: Sean O'Connor
Format: Paperback

List price: £13.99


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ISBN 10: 1444743082
ISBN 13: 9781444743081
Publisher: HACHETTE BOOKS IRELAND
Pub. date: 2 September, 2013
Pages: 352
Description: A moving, vivid and life-affirming picture of a boyhood, an extended family, a proud community and an all-but-vanished way of life.
Synopsis: Sean 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.
Publication: Ireland
Imprint: Hachette Books Ireland
Returns: Returnable
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