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A Dublin girl : growing up in the 1930s / Elaine Crowley.
LIBRA PR6053.R656 Z464 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crowley, Elaine, 1927-2011.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crowley, Elaine, 1927-2011.
- Crowley, Elaine.
- Novelists, Irish--20th century--Biography.
- Novelists, Irish.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 172 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Soho, 1998.
- Summary:
- Elaine Crowley's mother had two ambitions: To be "on the pig's back" (out of debt and with some money to spare) and to have a private house. Meanwhile, she lives with her husband and three children in one room in a Dublin tenement over a shop, sharing a bathroom on the landing with the neighbors. Elaine is the eldest, her charming, handsome father's pet, and also an observer: of the crowded streets of the district in which the children play; of Iveagh market; of her mother's visits to the local money-lender; of the nuns at school, the same one her mother and grandmother went to. She is also the innocent witness to her father's infidelity, a participant in her mother's effort to end the affair and the terrified observer of her father's brutal beating of her mother. She gets her first job at age fourteen in order to support the family as her beloved father succumbs to TB, the plague that haunts the district. And finally, ironically, both her mother's wishes come true.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Cowslips and chainies. Dublin : Lilliput Press. 1996.
- ISBN:
- 1569471126
- OCLC:
- 36842418
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