I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls: Memoir

by Bernadette M. Redmond

The rent of 3s.6d a week in the Dublin Artisans' Dwelling Company flats was relatively high in the early 1920's when the author's grandparents moved in. Built to house artisans the tenancies were beyond the means of labourer's who earned about a 1 a week.On the death of her mother in 1947 she moved from nearby Upper Rutland St. to live in the Dwellings with her grandparents and remembers it as a matriarchal enclave where the women castigated and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1491263776
• ISBN13: 9781491263778
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"