The Yew Tree at the Head of the Strand

by Brian Cosgrove

Book Overview

The Yew Tree at the Head of the Strand is an affectionate and humorous memoir of growing up in Newry - 'predominantly Catholic and sometimes fiercely Nationalist' - in the 1940s and 50s. From the lively atmosphere of his father's pub to the broadening of horizons at The Queen's University Belfast, Brian Cosgrove evokes a childhood and adolescence enlivened by comics, story books and films, seaside summer holidays in Warrenpoint with his brothers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853237476
• ISBN13: 9780853237471
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"