Ruth Illingworth: A 1950s Irish Childhood [2018] paperback ZOCCU 'One of the great social

'One of the great social historians of our time

or fashion a potting shed from three vintage doors

It raises the crucial question of whether America could have won its independence without the aid of France

FINDING FREEDOM is an honest

They make people think

Ruth Illingworth: A 1950s Irish Childhood [2018] paperback ZOCCU 'One of the great social1950s Ireland was the age of De Valera and John Charles McQuaid. It was the age before television, Vatican II, and home central heating. A time when motor cars and public telephones had wind up handles, when boys wore short trousers and girls wore ribbons, when nuns wore white bonnets and priests wore black hats in church. To the young people of today, the 1950s seem like another age. But for those who played, learned and worked at this time, this era