Dublin’s Lost Heroines: Mammies and Grannies in a Vanished City.
Author: KEARNS, Kevin C.
Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2006. xxviii, 331pp. Illustrated. Paperback.
Kevin Kearns, the acclaimed author of Dublin Tenement Life, has written a masterly work of reminiscence, celebration and sadness. Based on interviews he has conducted during annual visits to Dublin extending over thirty years, he has drawn together a unique picture of women’s lives in the old Dublin slums.
The slums of Dublin were among the worst in Europe. Conditions were often unspeakably vile, with massive over-crowding and utterly inadequate sanitation. Yet out of these dreadful tenements families were reared, households kept together and human dignity maintained.
As with most impoverished societies, this was overwhelmingly the work of women, the mammies and grannies of the Dublin slums whose voices course through this remarkable book. They tell of how they lived, of the difficulties they faced, of the grinding poverty, the unemployment, the fecklessness of their men folk, and always of their heroic struggle to maintain the basic decencies of human life in inhuman conditions.
ISBN: 07171134636
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