{"product_id":"growing-up-with-ireland-a-century-of-memories","title":"Growing Up With Ireland\t\t\t\t\tA Century of Memories","description":"'An incredible portal to our past' The Sunday Times\r\n\r\nOn 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. \r\n\r\nFrom recollections of the big snow of 1932, to Éamon de Valera speaking to crowds in a rural town square, to the dawning of electricity, 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.\r\n\r\nIn living memory are tales of 'rambling houses' - where each night neighbours would walk over the fields to sit around the fire, drink tea and tell stories - raising a family in an earlier era, the scourge of TB, hiding out in Santry Woods when the Black and Tans raided, and pride in a father who was interned in Frongach after the\r\nEaster Rising. Also explored are thoughts on the good and bad of how life has transformed over a century.\r\n\r\nGrowing 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.","brand":"Valerie Cox","offers":[{"title":"Hachette Ireland \/ 26 Sep 2019 \/ 327","offer_id":53826429059413,"sku":"9781529337365","price":3.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0501\/4188\/8668\/files\/9781529337365.webp?v=1777970282","url":"https:\/\/www.bookworld.ie\/products\/growing-up-with-ireland-a-century-of-memories","provider":"Book World Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}