Cowslips and Chainies: A Memoir of Dublin in the 1930's

by Elaine Crowley

This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1874675805
• ISBN13: 9781874675808
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Dufour Editions
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

I'm not sure if this is printed under a new title now, but..

A touching memoir of Dublin childhood in the 30s, and how this girl survives so many hardships. Although the father seems nearly to be the bad guy in the book, you can't help but feel sorry for him at the end