Ruth Illingworth: A 1950s Irish Childhood [2018] paperback ZOCCU Pinsker presents a frighteningly real

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Ruth Illingworth: A 1950s Irish Childhood [2018] paperback ZOCCU Pinsker presents a frighteningly real1950s 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