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Working Class Heroines - The Extraordinary Women of Dublin's Tenements (Paperback)
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Working Class Heroines - The Extraordinary Women of Dublin's Tenements (Paperback)
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In Working Class Heroines acclaimed historian Kevin C. Kearns
brings us the voices of the forgotten women of Dublin's tenements.
If it weren't for his work the lives of these everyday heroines
would be lost forever. Based on 30 years of research spent
interviewing and recording the life stories of the working-class
women of Dublin, it covers the squalid tenement days of the early
1900s, through the mid-century decades of 'slumland' block flats,
and into the 1970s when deadly drugs infiltrated poor
neighbourhoods, terrifying mothers and stealing away their
children. What emerges is an intimate and poignant celebration of
the mammies and grannies who held the fabric of family life in an
environment of hardship and, often, cruelty. Through vivid tales of
how they coped with grinding poverty, huge families, pitiless
landlords, the oppressive Church, dictatorial priests, feckless and
often abusive husbands, these remarkable women shine with
astonishing dignity, wit, pride and a resilient spirit, despite
their struggles. Working Class Heroines gives voice and pays
tribute to the long silent, unsung heroines who were the
indispensable caretakers of both family and community, and remains
one of the most important Irish feminist documents of our times.
"The ordinary woman has long been absent from our national
narrative. I think we should be grateful that Working Class
Heroines exists, and we can benefit now from listening to these
voices.' Ellen Coyne, The Sunday Times "Those of us who know and
love Dublin owe Kearns a huge debt". Roddy Doyle Praise for Kevin
Kearns' other unique oral histories of Dublin The Legendary "Lugs"
Branigan: Ireland's Most Famed Garda 'A revealing portrait not just
of a passionate and dedicated public figure, but also of a society
undergoing great and constant change.' The Irish Independent
Ireland's Arctic Siege: The Big Freeze of 1947 This story might
have come from some Polar Expedition. It is almost unbelievable
that such conditions could exist in Ireland.' The Irish Times The
Bombing of Dublin's North Strand, 1941: The Untold Story 'What
shines through is the courage and goodness of ordinary people,
untrained for such catastrophe, in their attempts to save and help
their fellow Dubliners.' The Irish Times Dublin Tenement Life: An
Oral History 'Among the finest books ever written about Dublin.'
The Sunday Tribune 'This is truly an admirable book, capturing
echoes of a vanished world. It is only by reading this book that I
was enabled to re-imagine the society which the respondents
recalled to Kevin Kearns during what must have been many hundreds
of hours of patient interviewing.' The Irish Times 'This book will
long stand as the definitive social history of Ireland's gulags,
where the poor were herded together in conditions worse than
animals and will hopefully serve as further inspiration to those
who still campaign for decent housing for all our citizens.' Joe
Duffy 'Those of us who know and love Dublin owe Kearns a huge
debt.' Roddy Doyle Dublin Voices: An Oral Folk History 'This book
is a goldmine of tiny details. The narrative voices that speak from
every page of this book do so in an unfiltered language entirely
their own.' The Sunday Times
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