'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