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A Dublin girl : growing up in the 1930's Elaine Crowley.
Record details
- ISBN: 1569471126 (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 172 p. 24 cm.
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| General Note: | Originally published: Cowslips and chainies. Dublin : Lilliput Press. 1996. |
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| Subject: | Dublin (Ireland) > Social life and customs. Novelists, Irish > 20th century > Biography. Crowley, Elaine, 1927- Childhood and youth. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Evergreen Indiana.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Orleans Town and Twp PL - Orleans | 823.9 CRO (Text) | 36870000015656 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
An intimate and bittersweet memoir documents the author's childhood detailing her mother's desperate wish for a house of their own, her father's unfaithfulness and promiscuity, her mother's attempt to end the affair and the beating that ensued, and the devastating aftermath of the tuberculosis epidemic. - Baker & Taylor
Documents the author's childhood detailing her mother's desperate wish for a house of their own, her father's unfaithfulness and promiscuity, her mother's attempt to end the affair and the beating that ensued, and the devasting aftermath of the tuberculosis epidemic - Blackwell North Amer
Elaine Crowley's mother had two ambitions: To be "on the pig's back" (out of debt and with some money to spare) and to have a private house. Meanwhile, she lives with her husband and three children in one room in a Dublin tenement over a shop, sharing a bathroom on the landing with the neighbors.
Elaine is the eldest, her charming, handsome father's pet, and also an observer: of the crowded streets of the district in which the children play; of Iveagh market; of her mother's visits to the local money-lender; of the nuns at school, the same one her mother and grandmother went to. She is also the innocent witness to her father's infidelity, a participant in her mother's effort to end the affair and the terrified observer of her father's brutal beating of her mother.
She gets her first job at age fourteen in order to support the family as her beloved father succumbs to TB, the plague that haunts the district. And finally, ironically, both her mother's wishes come true. - Book News
Crowley writes a memoir of her tumultuous childhood growing up in Dublin, the daughter of a fierce and contradictory mother and a handsome, philandering, confused father. First published in 1996 in Ireland by The Lilliput Press Ltd. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
