My Struggle for Life - Brossura

Keating, Joseph; O'Leary, Paul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1904558445 ISBN 13: 9781904558446

Casa editrice: Univ College Dublin Pr, 2005

Riassunto

This memoir provides an insight into the life of a child reared in a working-class Irish Catholic community in late nineteenth-century Britain. No other author succeeds in depicting so vividly the texture of a life delimited by manual work, home and community ties as experienced by Irish migrants of the period. At the same time, it charts the tortuous route by which a young man struggled to free himself from a life of manual labour by using his literary talents to become a journalist and popular novelist. Published in 1916, it reflects the world and assumptions of an emigre community between the failure of the Fenian movement and the Easter Rising, and it includes a telling vignette of the aged Fenian Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa. A picture of the world of those Home Rule supporters who lived outside Ireland emerges from this book.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ College Dublin Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1904558445
• ISBN 13: 9781904558446
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 308