Growing Up with Ireland: A Century of Memories from Our Oldest and Wisest Citizens

By Valerie Cox

'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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529337380
• ISBN13: 9781529337389
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Hachette Ireland
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 7.6"