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Growing Up with Ireland

Valerie Cox
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  • ISBN 9781529337389
  • Weight: 280g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Jun 2020
  • Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland
  • Publication City/Country: IE
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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'An incredible portal to our past' The Sunday Times

On 7 January 1922, Ireland became a free state. Born into that era of turbulence and hope were the twenty-six women and men whose stories and memories of a lifetime are captured by cherished Irish journalist Valerie Cox.

From living memory come stories of the arrival of electricity, story-telling at 'rambling houses', raising a family in an earlier era, the scourge of TB, the big snow of 1932 and hiding out when the Black and Tans raided. These evocative pieces reflect both a simpler time and a tougher one, where childhood was short and the world of work beckoned from an early age.

Growing Up With Ireland is a compelling portrait of an Ireland in some ways warmly familiar, and in others changed beyond recognition, from those who were there at the beginning.

'A comprehensive and evocative insight into a century of Irish life ... a valuable record' Irish Examiner
About Valerie Cox
In a long career as a reporter working in newspapers, radio and television, Valerie Cox has interviewed people from every county in Ireland. Over eleven years working on the Today programme on RTÉ Radio she travelled around the country covering stories as diverse as the closure of schools, Garda stations and post offices. She was out with the rescue services in floods and snow and covered the events that make rural Ireland special, including the ploughing. She is the author of four previous books, Searching, which tells the story of Ireland's missing people, The Family Courts, A Ploughing People, and Growing Up With Ireland. Valerie lives in rural County Wicklow with her husband Brian and the couple have five children and four grandchildren.

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