Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes : a heart-rending memoir that will both horrify and inspire / Martha Long.
Material type: TextPublication details: Edinburgh : Mainstream, 2007.Description: 477 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781845962791 (pbk.) :
- 9781845962791 (pbk.) :
- 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
- 941.8350823092 LON
- DA995.D75
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 941.8350823092 LON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 204932 |
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.