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Mary and Paddy - Joy Wrapped in Tears (Paperback)
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Mary and Paddy - Joy Wrapped in Tears (Paperback)
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Loot Price R259
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You Save R54 (17%)
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Peter Carton discovered his Irish family history contained hidden
secrets, stretching back 100 years, involving religious prejudice
that divided family members; bravery in service with the British
Army; a presence at a Dublin massacre; an ambush by the IRA;
elopements and hastily arranged marriages and, personal to himself,
a startling revelation of the birth and burial of two twins.
Together with his older brothers he encountered the, sometimes,
rather harsh discipline of a Catholic education before discovering
the joy and beauty of the City of Oxford. This is the story about
the author's parents, Mary and Paddy. Commencing with their own
background and lives in the rural counties of Wexford and Carlow,
in Southern Ireland, it follows them on their journey, beginning
with their momentous and life changing decision in 1958, to
emigrate from Ireland. Determined to start a fresh life in England
to secure a better future for their eight young children, this is
informative of their day-to-day struggles to feed, clothe and
educate them all in frequently difficult circumstances that
required them to work so long and hard all their lives before the
toil and stress eventually took its toll. On behalf of the author,
and his sisters and brothers, this book is written as a tribute and
a thank you to them both, for a joyous childhood and a more
prosperous adulthood bequeathed to both their children and
grandchildren.
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