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Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes by Martha Long · Booklabria

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Martha Long
Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes

BiographySocial conditions

Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes

Name: Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes
Author: Martha Long

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First published: 2007
Language: English
Editions: 6

Synopsis

Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s' Dublin, Martha grew up in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and forced to beg for food. Here she tells the story of her early life and recreates a lost era in which the shadow of the Catholic Church loomed large and if you didn't work, you didn't eat.

Subjects: Biography
Social conditions
Childhood and youth
Illegitimate children
Ireland, biography
Poor children
Set in: Ireland
Dublin
Time: 20th Century

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