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The Invisible Prison - Scenes from an Irish Childhood (Paperback, New Ed.)
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The Invisible Prison - Scenes from an Irish Childhood (Paperback, New Ed.)
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List price R409
Loot Price R336
Discovery Miles 3 360
You Save R73 (18%)
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From the early 1970s the Irish midland town of Portlaoise became
famous as the home of the country's maximum security political
prison. A childhood on the Main Street of that "once congested, now
double by-passed town" afforded prize-winning poet Pat Boran a
unique insight into its workings at the time, as it did into
small-town life in general. Here are extraordinary glimpses of bog
men and bogey men, of the town's first colour television and the
national debate over its first public toilet... Here too are
stories of coming of age, of high jinks and low deeds, of events
and characters both wonderful and deeply strange. And here too is
the shadow of the northern conflict, seen through the lens of a
southern Irish town with claims to being the place where the
British Empire began-and the first shots were fired of the 1916
Rising. Part memoir, part social history, part meditation on
community itself, The Invisible Prison is a funny, moving,
surprising and by times heart-breaking look at Irish life-and Irish
family life-and the energies and passions that animate it.
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