Whoredom in Kimmage: The Private Lives of Irish Women - Softcover

Mahoney, Rosemary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385474504 ISBN 13: 9780385474504

Verlag: Anchor, 1994

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Book by Mahoney Rosemary

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A lively portrait of contemporary Ireland focuses on the roles of its women at a time when change is still in the beginning stages and features interviews with the nation's first female president, an abortion activist, and regulars at a local pub. Reprint.

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the art of a skilled fiction writer whose ear for Irish bluster is pitch-perfect, Whoredom in Kimmage tells the tale of contemporary Irish women through a series of brilliantly animated scences that take the reader from Dillon's tiny pub in rural Corofin to the heart of Dublin. This beguiling account of Irish life transcends that nation's small shores through the power of Mahoney's great storytelling gifts.

Before the phenomena of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, and Thomas Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization, Rosemary Mahoney traveled to Ireland in response to the growing feeling that changes were taking place, and that those changes directly involved women. Her ideas are animated in brilliantly crafted scenes, taking the reader from Dillon's tiny pub in Corofin to a lesbian pub in Dublin, from a Legion of Mary meeting to a classroom full of boisterous schoolgirls determined to drive their teacher, S'ta Keatin', over the edge. Here, too, are s

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• Verlag: Anchor
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0385474504
• ISBN 13: 9780385474504
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336