Another Country: Growing Up in 50's Ireland

by Gene Kerrigan

Book Overview

This memoir reconstructs the Ireland of the 1950s and early 1960s, in which the author grew up. The details of school, street and family life, interweave with the political background of the times and recollections of major political figures.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0717127451
• ISBN13: 9780717127450
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Gill & Company
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An excellent piece of recent history

I picked up this book while waiting at Dublun Airport, and at a cursory glance, saw that this told the real story of Dublin in the 50's. It was just like reading the story of my own childhood. The prejudices, the puritanical "straight-laced" attitudes, which were designed to turn out designer kids... models of the establishment which needed an easy means to control and protect its own environment. However, to say that it is a depressing book would not be true, as the mischevious traits of the young characters proved that the supression of their individuality and personality was a lost cause from the beginning.