My Ireland Connor Margaret
My Ireland Connor Margaret My Ireland presents a factual and descriptive account of Ireland in the 1950s from the perspective of the author looking back on her early life in the country of her birth.…
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My Ireland Connor Margaret
My Ireland presents a factual and descriptive account of Ireland in the 1950s from the perspective of the author looking back on her early life in the country of her birth. Her story concentrates, instead, on rural life with its wonderful sense of community meitheal (an Irish word that describes how neighbours came together to assist in a range of tasks such as the harvesting of crops). Margaret's captivating and charming story renders a nostalgic picture of Ireland independent of the inequalities and poverty that existed there at that time.
The book is structured chronologically, from Margaret's childhood to adolescence and from leaving home for Dublin, Ireland's capital city, and later to emigration. To a lesser extent, the author addresses the deep cultural divide of class and money as experienced in religion, education and professional opportunities. Beginning with family, the
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