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Monday, June 12, 2006
Read Ireland
Read Ireland Book Reviews – Issue 342
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Ireland’s Ancient Stones: A Megalithic Heritage by Kenneth
McNally
(Hardback; 28.00 Euro / 35.00 USD / 20.00 UK; 140 pages, with
full colour photos throughout)
Scattered across the Irish countryside are an astonishing number
and variety of ancient structures of earth and stone:
lichen-encrusted megalithic tombs, ritual circles and
alignments, mystic cult stones, raths and cashels, and the
crosses and round towers of the Celtic Church - tangible
legacies of the different cultural groups which contributed to
the personality of the landscape from prehistoric times. Kenneth
McNally's magnificently evocative photographs of the finest of
Ireland's field monuments include many of the most famous
examples - Newgrange, Glendalough and Legananny - as well as
some of the curious and lesser known - Pat Kearney's Big Stone,
the enigmatic Caldragh Idol, Ballykinvarga Fort, The Piper's
Stones, and many more around which a rich and colourful folklore
has grown up over the centuries. The author's introductions to
each section set the background to this remarkable heritage, and
the commentaries accompanying the photographs tell the reader all
he or she needs to know about each particular site, whether as an
intending visitor or as a vicarious traveller.
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Land Matters: Power Struggles in Rural Ireland by Ethel Crowley
(Paperback; 15.00 Euro / 18.00 USD / 10.00 UK; 230 pages)
The Land Question has always been predominant in Ireland.
According to forecasts, there will be as few as 15,000 farmers
in twenty years' time. As the Irish rural image undergoes
radical transformation, this timely, informative, vigorously
argued book will be necessary reading for those working in rural
development, food production, housing, transport, heritage and
conservation, to say nothing of those who simply care about
Ireland's future. Land Matters concerns social and ecological
change, the underlying results of structural and policy
decisions made in Brussels or Dublin and their impact on the
ground. It addresses the following themes: globalization and the
forces that shape society; the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy),
and why it has been reformed; social inequality; REPS (the Rural
Environment Protection Scheme) and its impact; survival
strategies in everyday life (farm households and
diversification); green capitalism; landscape, heritage and the
'politics of perception'; nitrate pollution; migration;
contrasting rural visions (housing in the country, 'clean'
food); and views of a region - west Cork - in which competing
claims are made by farmers, hoteliers, conservationists and
second-home owners. Key organizations such as Teagasc, the IFA,
An Taisce and Organic Trust are also examined and profiled. Land
matters permeate all our lives, from our supermarket shelves to
our television screens and studies, from our boardrooms to our
streets, dwellings, communities and belief systems. No one will
be untouched by the issues raised in this pioneering, analytic
work.
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Wednesday’s Child by Shane Dunphy
(Paperback; 13.00 Euro / 16.00 USD / 10.0 UK; 207 pages)
Wednesday's Child" is the story of one year in the life of an
Irish child protection worker. Shane Dunphy was involved in
social care for fifteen years. This book is a distilling of the
cases he encountered in that time to make a single, year-long
narrative. Apart from that compression, and some necessary
changes of identifying details, everything in the book is true.
And what a truth he reveals! Here are the cases of three
dysfunctional families, struggling at the margins of a society
that barely acknowledges the existence of such people. This is a
portrait of fatalistic despair, of families so sunk in chronic
poverty and neglect that they are beyond saving themselves or
their children. All the elements of social dysfunction are
present: the unkempt houses, truant children, endless televsion,
anorexia, alcoholism, suicidal desperation. Yet out of this mess
there is hope as well as tragedy. Most of Wednesday's children
don't make it, but some do. Some survive the most appalling
childhood horrors to make it through to the normal adult world.
But more are doomed. Despite the heroism of child protection
workers and the best efforts of well-intentioned people, we
still face a hidden mountain of avoidable human misery. And all
this in one of the richest countries in the world.
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Belfast 1938-1968: Ireland in the Age of the Trolleybus by Mike
Maybin
(Large Paperback; 25.00 Euro / 30.00 USD / 20.00 UK; 128 pages,
with black-and-white photos throughout)
Belfast Corporation operated the largest trolleybus system in
the UK outside London, and its heyday was in the 1950s. This
1996 book, reformatted and re-issued, captures the flavour of
that period with more than 200 photographs, covering the city
route by route, with additional sections on depots, tickets and
preserved vehicles.
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Irish Leprechaun Stories by Bairbre McCarthy
(Paperback; 8.00 Euro / 10.00 USD / 6.00 UK; 96 pages)
This collection contains ten stories, which convey the sense of
wonder of the world of fairies, where the marvellous and
unexpected can always happen. Among the stories are ‘Princess
Marie’, ‘The Leprechaun and the Giant’, ‘Tim the Tailor’ and
‘The Greedy Landlord’. For 8 to 12 year olds.
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Complete Book of Gaelic Games edited by Des Donegan
(Paperback; 20.00 Euro / 25.00 USD / 15.00 UK; 352 pages)
"The complete handbook of gaelic games: Full GAA records from
1887 to 2005 Inclusive".
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Where to Watch Birds in Ireland and Britain by David Tipling
(Large Paperback; 12.00 Euro / 15.00 USD / 9.00 UK; 176 pages,
with colour illustrations throughout)
This excellent guide contains over 300 of the most popular
birding sites in Britain and Ireland, offering valuable
infor-mation on access and location and habitat type.
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Bill Oddie’s Birding Map of Ireland and Britain
(Map; 7.50 Euro / 10.00 USD / 5.00 UK)
The only one of its kind, the third edition of this illustrated
map is an essential reference tool for locating the top 340
birding sites in Britain and Ireland.
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Winds the Road North by Geraldine O’Connell Cusack
(Paperback; 20.00 Euro / 25.00 USD / 15.00 UK, 231 pages)
Winds the Road North is the story of an ordinary family from the
developed world who make a life in Africa under extraordinary
conditions. They live in northern Tanzania and face the same
daily struggles as the local population. Thirteen-year old
Kaniah attends the village school and shares all the hurts,
fears, and magical dreams of her classmates. But Kaniah misses
the camaraderie of friends back home and begins to understand
what it is like to live among strangers who will never really
understand. Winds the Road North is a personal journal and
cadidid observation of Africa today. It is honest, funny, and
frankly unsentimental and will appeal to all those seeking to
understand the racial and religious tensions simmering beneath
our global village.
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The Darkness of Bones by Sam Millar
(Trade Paperback; 13.00 Euro / 16.00 USD / 10.00 UK; 234 pages)
This is a tense tale of murder, betrayal, sexual abuse and
revenge, and the corruption at the heart of the respectable
establishment. A young boy discovers a bone in a snow-covered
forest. Initially, Quigley Maguire thinks it could simply be
that of an animal. But, it belongs to a young girl who has been
missing for three years. Quigley's father, Frank, an
ex-detective who now works as a private investigator, has hidden
from his son his responsibility for his wife's death. When he
confesses the truth to him, Quigley runs from his home into the
worst snowstorm for decades. Frank's search for his son brings
him into contact with Jeremiah Grazier and his drug-addicted
wife, Judith, a damaged refugee from an orphanage who now sees
herself as an avenging angel. Meanwhile, in the derelict
orphanage, a tramp discovers a sexually mutilated and
decapitated corpse, later identified as that of the head warden
of the institute.
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Miss Katie Regrets by Jack Barry
(Trade Paperback; 13.00 Euro / 16.00 USD / 10.00 UK; 254 pages)
From the criminal underbelly of Celtic Tiger Dublin comes a
gripping story of guns, drugs, prostitution and corruption. A
seemingly humdrum shooting of an ex-paramilitary anti-drugs
campaigner leads Detective Thomas Barrett to an online male
prostitution service and to hints of a link with a politician
appearing at a tribunal into corrupt property speculation.
Barrett is given "sick leave" as new forces within the British
and Irish centres of power allow him to pursue the sensitive
investigation offstage. The plot moves between Dublin and
Amsterdam, Manchester and British suburbia. At the centre of an
apparent spider's web of intrigue sits the enigmatic figure of
Miss Katie, a crabby Dublin transvestite who will, under
pressure, kiss and tell. And, perhaps, kill. The dramatic
denouement takes place in the German cemetery in the Dublin
mountains. Barrett is free to have another crack at his failed
marriage, and Miss Katie, finally, is defanged, if not
deflowered.
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Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger vs. The Ugly American edited by
Ken Bruen
(Trade Paperback; 13.00 Euro / 16.00 USD / 10.00 UK; 230 pages)
At first it was straightforward – Dublin authors to write on
their city... Then we turned the concept on its head, as you do
in noir. The Irish are fascinated by how we appear to the world,
so let’s have a look, we thought, at how this city appears from
the outside. In addition to a couple of us locals, let’s take a
cross section of the very best of today’s crime writers from
America, as well as Britain, and those between. – Ken Bruen,
from the introduction.
Brand new stories by Ray Banks, James O. Born, Ken Bruen, Reed
Farrell Coleman, Eoin Colfer, Jim Fusilli, Patrick J. Lambe,
Laura Lippman, Craig McDonald, Pat Mullan, Gary Phillips, John
Rickards, Peter Spiegelman, Jason Starr, Olen Steinhauer,
Charlie Stella, Duane Swierczynski, Sarah Weinman and Kevin
Wignall.
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Angels and Rabies: A Journey Through the Americas by Manchan
Magan
(Large Paperback; 16.00 Euro / 20.00 USD / 11.00 UK; 280 pages)
"Angels and Rabies" follows the experiences of Mocha/Manchan on
a journey through the Americas, from a primal screaming commune
in the Columbian Andes to contracting rabies in the Peruvian
rainforest and falling in love with a Hollywood star. "Angels
and Rabies" is a true story, which delves into the culture and
sociological makeup of the Americas, from its conquistador
pioneers to today's Disney Channel aficionados. Mocha, an
inquiring and slightly unhinged young man, finds himself amidst
the marginalised wherever he is: shamans murdering missionaries;
Israeli conscripts seeking absolution; tree-huggers in love with
loggers; cannabis growers influencing the CIA with mind-meld
techniques; women addicted to menstrual blood; and enema junkies
seeking enlightenment. By burrowing beneath the skin of
alternative societies from Ecuador to Seattle, Mocha reveals a
radiograph of the bones and nerve-endings that make up the
Americas. It's a poignant and farcical book, wise and deranged;
about adventure, love, transcendence and aspiration.
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The General & I: The Untold Story of Martin Cahill’s Hotdog Wars
by Wolfgang Eulitz
(Paperback; 11.00 Euro / 15.00 USD / 8.00 UK; 200 pages)
The General and I leaves you in no doubt which version you
should believe. This is the gripping and always entertaining
story of an ordinary man’s struggle against
a criminal psychopath. Wolfgang Eulitz worked hard to set up his
business as a hot dog seller on the notorious Leeson Street.
After four successful years of witnessing the chaos and
characters of Dublin’s nightlife, Martin Cahill appeared and
tried to muscle in on Eulitz’s lucrative business. The hot dog
wars had begun.
"At the end of his outstretched hands he held a gun, which he
now aimed directly at my head. These thugs were here for more
than just money. These thugs belonged to Martin Cahill, alias
‘The General’." Wolfgang Eulitz reveals that the popular
perception that Martin Cahill as an ‘ordinary decent criminal’
is completely wrong, and that he was instead a cruel, sadistic
and dangerous thug intent on destroying other peoples’
livelihoods.
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New in Paperback This Week:
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The Pope’s Children: Ireland’s New Elite by David McWilliams
(13 Euro / 17 USD / 10 UK; 300 pages0
David McWilliams' brilliant survey of Ireland today is a
celebration of success. He takes us to Deckland, that suburban
state of mind where you'll find the Kells Angels, those
out-of-town commuters who are the cutting edge of the new
prosperity. He introduces the HiCos - Hiberno-Cosmopolitans -
the elite whose distance from Deckland is measured in their cool
sophistication, their ability to feel at home equally on the
Boulevard Saint-Michel and on Hill 16. The "Pope's Children" is
an antidote to the endless pessimism of the Commentariat,
official Ireland's gloomy opinion mongers, forever seeing a
glass half empty that is in fact three-quarters full. There is a
vast surge of ambition, new money, optimism and hope out there.
That's the real story: "The Pope's Children" tells it - and
tells it with style.
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Memoir by John McGahern
(10 Euro / 13 USD / 7 UK; 270 pages)
At the heart of the "Memoir" is a son's unembarrassed tribute to
his mother. His memory of walks with her through the narrow lanes
to the country schools where she taught and his happiness as she
named for him the wild flowers on the bank remained conscious
and unconscious presences for the rest of his life. A classic
family story, told with exceptional restraint and tenderness,
"Memoir" cannot fail to move all those who read it.
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Highlights from the Previous Issue:
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Bobby Sands: Nothing But an Unfinished Song by Denis O’Hearn
(Large Paperback; 20.00 Euro / 25.00 USD / 14.00 UK; 434 pages)
At seventeen, Bobby Sands was interested in music, girls and
soccer.Ten years later, he led his fellow prisoners on a protest
that grabbed the world's attention.Bobby Sands turned
twenty-seven on hunger strike, after spending almost nine years
in prison because of his activities as a member of the Irish
Republican Army.When he died on May 5, 1981, on the sixty-sixth
day of his hunger strike against repressive conditions in
Northern Ireland's H-Block prisons, parliaments across the world
stopped for a minute's silence in his honour.Nelson Mandela
followed his example and led a similar hunger strike in South
Africa.Bobby Sands' remarkable life and death have made him the
Irish Che Guevara.He is an enduring figure of resistance whose
life has inspired millions around the world.But until the
publication of this book, nothing has adequately explored the
motivation of the hunger strikers, nor recreated this period of
history from within the prison cell.Denis O'Hearn's powerful
biography, which contains an enormous amount of new material
based on primary research and interviews, illuminates for the
first time this enigmatic, controversial and heroic figure.
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The Provisional IRA in England: The Bombing Campaign 1973-1997
by Gary McGladdery
(Large Paperback; 30.00 Euro / 36.00 USD / 24.00 UK; 272 pages)
In this revealing and fascinating account, the impact of the
Provisional IRA's bombing campaign in Britain on both British
government policy towards Northern Ireland and the internal
politics of the republican movement, are examined in detail. The
book highlights the early thinking of the British government and
draws on recently released public records from 1939, 1973 and
1974. It makes extensive use of television documentary footage
to offer a broader analysis. The book also examines republican
rationale behind the campaign, the reasoning behind the use of
particular tactics and the thinking behind atrocities, such as
the Birmingham bombings. Using a range of new evidence, the book
highlights the bankruptcy of republican strategic thinking and
challenges the notion that successive British governments
appeased republicans because of the threat of bombs in London.
The analysis of the campaign is placed within the wider context
of the ongoing violence in Northern Ireland as well as the
history of republican violence in England dating back to the
nineteenth century.
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The Northern IRA and the Early Years of Partition 1920-1922 by
Robert Lynch
(Large Paperback; 30.00 Euro / 36.00 USD / 24.00 UK; 246 pages)
The years 1920-22 constituted a period of unprecedented conflict
and political change in Ireland. It began with the onset of the
most brutal phase of the War of Independence and culminated in
the effective military defeat of the Republican IRA in the Civil
War. Occurring alongside these dramatic changes in the south and
west of Ireland was a far more fundamental conflict in the
north-east, a period of brutal sectarian violence which marked
the early years of partition and the establishment of Northern
Ireland. Almost uniquely, the IRA in the six counties were
involved in every one of these conflicts and yet, it can be
argued, was on the fringe of all of them. The period 1920-22 saw
the evolution of the organisation from peripheral curiosity
during the War of independence to an idealistic symbol for those
wishing to resolve the fundamental divisions within the Sinn Fein
movement, which developed in the first six months of 1922. The
story of the Northern IRA's collapse in the autumn of that year
demonstrated dramatically the true nature of the organisation
and how it was their relationship to the various protagonists in
these conflicts, rather than their unceasing, but fruitless war
against partition, that defined its contribution to the Irish
revolution.
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Myths and Memories of the Easter Rising: Cultural and Political
Nationalism in Ireland by Jonathan Githens-Mazer
(Large Paperback; 30.00 Euro / 36.00 USD / 24.00 UK; 238 pages)
This book examines the political transformation and
radicalisation of Ireland between the outbreak of the First
World War, August, 1914, and Sinn Fein's landslide electoral
victory in December, 1918. It argues, through a novel
application of theories of ethno-symbolism and social movement
theory, that the myths, memories and symbols of the Irish nation
formed the basis for interpretation of the events of the Easter
Rising, and that this interpretation stimulated members of the
Irish nation to support radical nationalism. The book calls this
phenomenon the Cultural Trigger Point. Through an examination of
a variety of sources, the book traces, in particular, the impact
of the Great War on cultural and religious nationalism, and its
role in the rise of radical Irish nationalism.
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The GPO and the Easter Rising by Kieth Jeffery
(Large Paperback; 25.00 Euro / 30.00 USD / 20.00 UK; 222 pages)
All existing accounts of the GPO in 1916 concentrate on the
Volunteers who occupied the building on Easter Monday. But what
of those Dubliners and others who were working in the Post
Office that morning? Their experiences have been largely ignored
in all subsequent historiography. While not neglecting the
rebels, this book tells their story too, using hitherto
unpublished material drawn from the treasure-trove of documents
relating to the Rising held in the British Post Office Archives,
which has remained unexplored for ninety years and never before
exploited by historians. This material complemented with
further important unpublished material from the British National
Archives, as well as other vivid eyewitness accounts first
published shortly after the Rising. This book brings a
strikingly fresh perspective to the history of the Rising.
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A Destiny That Shapes Our Ends: Florence and Josephine
O’Donoghue’s War of Independence edited by John Borgonovo
(Large Paperback; 30.00 Euro / 36.00 USD / 24.00 UK; 252 pages,
with an 8-page black-and-white photo insert)
Historian and IRA leader Florence O'Donoghue describes his
experiences as head of intelligence in Cork city during the
Irish War of Independence (1919-1921). He candidly assesses the
leaders of this period, including Tomas MacCurtain, Sean
O'Hegarty, Terence MacSwiney and Michael Collins, and critically
examines the evolution of the Irish Volunteer citizen-soldiers.
He also details his wife, Josephine's role as the top IRA spy in
Cork's British Army headquarters, working for the rebels in
exchange for the return of her eldest son, lost in a bitter
custody battle with her in-laws. After O'Donoghue kidnapped the
child and reunited him with his mother, the two collaborators
eventually fell in love and were secretly married in the spring
of 1921. Forty years later, the couple presented their story to
their children in order to explain the family secret that had
haunted their domestic lives. The first part of the book is
O'Donoghue's and his wife's account of their activities in the
Anglo-Irish War, written in 1961; the second part is composed of
47 letters in diary form, written by O'Donoghue to his wife,
while he was 'on the run' during the last ten weeks of the
Anglo-Irish War, from May to July 1921. They provide a rare
snapshot of the daily life of fugitive IRA guerrillas.
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Last of the Celts by Marcus Tanner
(Large Paperback; 20.00 Euro / 25.00 USD / 14.00 UK; 300 pages,
with 16 page black-and-white photo insert)
A cultural tour spanning the Celtic world from the Outer
Hebrides of Scotland to Brittany, and from Cape Breton to
Patagonia, this book sets out to find out what has happened to
the Celtic peoples in a world where pressure to conform to
Anglo-American culture has grown ever stronger.
Taking the form of a journey that starts in the wilds of
north-west Scotland, before proceeding through western Wales,
the Isle of Man, troubled Northern Ireland, the western seaboard
of the Irish Republic and The French region of Brittany, the
author weaves solid historical research into the language,
religion, music and customs of the peoples concerned with
first-hand encounters with a host of priests, ministers,
government officials, cultural activists, musicians and writers.
The author finds talk of a Celtic revival much misplaced, for
while the term "Celtic" is banded around as never more, largely
to suit the needs of commerce and tourism, the fragile cultures
the word actually refers to in the north-west of Britain,
Ireland and France are closer than ever before to extinction.
As the author discovers on his journey, the tide is going out at
different speeds in different places. While Welsh culture and
language are (relatively) robust, the rich culture of the
Bretons is heading for almost certain oblivion in a decade or
two at most, as relentless, centuries-long pressure to "be
French" reaches its climax.
Nor are the prospects much brighter for the small Celtic
communities in the New World. As the author travels from Cape
Breton in Canada to Patagonia in Argentina, he finds the once
sturdy communities of Gaelic and Welsh speakers facing exactly
the same threats of assimilation and ultimate disappearance. It
is a development that impoverishes us all.
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Dublin’s Lost Heroines: Mammies and Grannies in a Vanished City
by Kevin C. Kearns
(Large Paperback; 15.00 Euro / 18.00 USD / 10.00 UK; 330 pages)
Kevin C. Kearns, the acclaimed author of "Dublin Tenement Life"
and other oral histories, has now prepared a masterly work of
reminiscence, celebration and dignity. Based on interviews he
has conducted during annual visits to Dublin extending over
thirty years, he has drawn together a unique picture of women's
lives in the old Dublin slums. The slums of Dublin were among
the worst in Europe, rivalled only by Glasgow. Tall town houses,
originally built as elegant homes for the rich in the eighteenth
century, fell into the hands of avaricious and pitiless
landlords who filled them to bursting point with the desperate
and impoverished urban poor. Conditions were often unspeakably
vile, with massive over-crowding and utterly inadequate
sanitation. Yet out of these dreadful tenements, families were
reared, households kept together and human dignity maintained.
As with most impoverished societies, this was overwhelmingly the
work of women, the mammies and grannies of the Dublin slums whose
voices course through this remarkable book. They tell of how they
lived, of the difficulties they faced, of the grinding poverty,
the unemployment, the fecklessness of their men folk and always
of their heroic struggle to maintain the basic decencies of
human life in inhuman conditions.
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Available Again:
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Dublin Tenement Life: An Oral History by Kevin C. Kearns
(Large Paperback; 15.00 Euro / 18.00 USD / 10.00 UK; 237 pages)
This book is based on the original oral histories of the
survivors of the old Dublin tenements. For nearly 150 years, the
wretched, squalid, tenements of Dublin were widely judged to be
the worst slums in all of Europe. By the 1930s, 6300 tenements
were occupied by almost 112,000 tenants. Some districts had 800
people to the acre, up to 100 occupants in one building and 20
family members crammed into a single tiny room. It was a hard
world of hunger, disease, high mortality, unemployment, heavy
drinking, prostitution and gang warfare. But despite their
hardships, the tenants poor enjoyed an incredibly close-knit
community life in which they found great security and, indeed,
happiness. As one policeman recalls from 50 years ago, they were
"extraordinarily happy for people who were so savagely poor".
This book captures their social life, their wit, their rousing
wakes and their incredible sense of community solidarity. In
their own words, the last of the tenement dwellers bear
testimony to the rich human mosaic of a bygone world. Their
accounts are sometimes tragic and emotionally wrenching but
equally they are an inspiring chronicle of struggle and
survival.
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New Edition:
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Tracing Your Irish Ancestors 3rd edition by John Grenham
(Large Paperback; 25.00 Euro / 30.00 USD / 20.00 UK; 525 pages)
This third edition of "Tracing Your Irish Ancestors" retains the
three-part structure of earlier editions, but updates and
improves the material already included while adding new sources
which have emerged since publication of the second edition in
1998. The bibliographies - an important element of the book -
are more comprehensive than ever before. With the growing use of
Internet searches, the number of sources has grown dramatically
since the last edition. John Grenham has a specific chapter on
the Internet, with detailed references to online transcripts in
the source lists. In addition, the invaluable index has been
completely revised and updated to take account of the 35 per
cent increase in the extent of this new edition over the
previous one. 'A book which has already established itself as
the standard reference book for genealogical researchers,
professional or amateur, who are dealing with Irish sources' -
"Ireland of the Welcomes". ' The most authoritative book on the
subject' - Cara. 'Books on how to trace your Irish ancestors
pour from the presses. Here is a really worthwhile one,
comprehensive, clearly laid out and interesting to read.' -
"Books Ireland".
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