Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes : a heart-rending memoir that will both horrify and inspire /
Long, Martha.
Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes : a heart-rending memoir that will both horrify and inspire / Martha Long. - Edinburgh : Mainstream, 2007. - 477 p. ; 24 cm.
Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s' Dublin, Martha grew up in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and forced to beg for food. Here she tells the story of her early life and recreates a lost era in which the shadow of the Catholic Church loomed large and if you didn't work, you didn't eat.
9781845962791 (pbk.) : £9.99 9781845962791 (pbk.) : Đ9.99
Long, Martha--Childhood and youth.
Illegitimate children--Ireland--Dublin--Biography
Poor children--Ireland--Dublin--Biography
Biography.
Biography: general
Autobiography: general
True stories of heroism, endurance & survival
Child welfare
Ireland
Dublin (Ireland)--Social conditions--20th century.
DA995.D75
941.8350823092 LON
Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes : a heart-rending memoir that will both horrify and inspire / Martha Long. - Edinburgh : Mainstream, 2007. - 477 p. ; 24 cm.
Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s' Dublin, Martha grew up in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and forced to beg for food. Here she tells the story of her early life and recreates a lost era in which the shadow of the Catholic Church loomed large and if you didn't work, you didn't eat.
9781845962791 (pbk.) : £9.99 9781845962791 (pbk.) : Đ9.99
Long, Martha--Childhood and youth.
Illegitimate children--Ireland--Dublin--Biography
Poor children--Ireland--Dublin--Biography
Biography.
Biography: general
Autobiography: general
True stories of heroism, endurance & survival
Child welfare
Ireland
Dublin (Ireland)--Social conditions--20th century.
DA995.D75
941.8350823092 LON