Author: Ray Cranley
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: cherry, chop, chip
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2006-07-06
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 1412016029
ISBN-13: 9781412016025

A haunting and often hilarious warts and all account of growing up in a small rural community near the seaside town of Bray, County Wicklow in the days before television; of sheep’s brains for Sunday dinner and senna pods every Saturday to keep you ’regular’; of the curious goings-on in the winter of 1953/54 during a seven month stay a Dublin hospital; of the excitement among the young at the arrival of the sensational new music called Rock-n-Roll, and the comically desperate measures taken to keep adolescent hormones in harness. A wonderfully evocative trip into 1950s Ir