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This man's wee boy : a childhood memoir of peace and trouble in Derry / Tony Doherty.
Author
Doherty, Tony, 1963-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cork : Mercier Press, [2016]
Description
256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
DA995.L75 D64 2016
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Subject(s)
Fathers and sons
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Northern Ireland
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Derry
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Derry (Northern Ireland)
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Biography
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Derry (Northern Ireland)
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Social conditions
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20th century
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Doherty, Tony 1963-
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Childhood and youth
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Doherty, Tony 1963-
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Family
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Doherty, Patsy 1939-1972
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Dougherty family
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Summary note
"[The] story of Tony's early childhood in Derry from 1967 to 1972 is told through the eyes of an inquisitive and thoughtful boy growing up in a city on the brink of civil war. The book tells the story of his working-class Catholic family, the onset of civil strife in Derry with the arrival of British soldiers, CS gas seeping into family homes and tracer bullets flying by windows. Described as "At times laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreakingly sad", Tony's young life unfolds in a story that beautifully captures the innocence of childhood, the dynamics of family life and street friendships. At the centre of the book is Tony's father Patrick - a legend in the eyes of his son and a man who struggles to raise his family through the bitter years of economic inactivity in Derry in the 1960s and early 1970s. The book beautifully and movingly portrays the relationship between young Tony and the father he adores and slightly fears as events unfold, both within the family and on the streets of Derry. Violence eventually finds its way into Tony's life through the death of a school friend under an army truck and then in a life-changing way when his family is ripped apart on the afternoon of Sunday 30 January 1972. In one of the most original memoirs of childhood, This Man's Wee Boy is the story of a boy's future changed forever when a civil rights march ended in murder on the streets of Derry."--Publisher's website.
Contents
Moore Street, 1967-1968
Patsy, Eileen, and family
Moore Street downfall
An army sangar on Hamilton Street
Tracers
The folded newspaper
Elvis
The rickety wheel
The ray gun
This man's wee boy.
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Other title(s)
Childhood memoir of peace and trouble in Derry
ISBN
9781781174586 ((pbk.))
178117458X
LCCN
2017303626
OCLC
952389556
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