Rory & Ita Roddy Doyle
Publication details: London : Jonathan Cape, 2002.Description: 338 p. :ill., ports. ;23 cmISBN:- 0224069233 : 16.99
- 941.70820922
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 941.708 DOY | Available | 08526 |
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"Rory and Ita, Roddy Doyle's first non-fiction book, tells - largely in their own words - the story of his parents' lives from their first memories to the present. Born in 1923 and 1925 respectively, they met at a New Year's Eve dance in 1947 and married in 1951. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods - the people ( aunts, cousins, shopkeepers, friends, teachers), the politics (both came from Republican families), idyllic times in the Wexford countryside for Ita, Rory's apprenticeship as a printer. Ita's mother died when she was three ('the only memory I have is of her hands, doing things'); Rory was the oldest of nine children, five of them girls."--BOOK JACKET.