The Transformation Of Ireland 1900-2000 by Ferriter Diarmaid

Author:Ferriter, Diarmaid [Ferriter, Diarmaid]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Profile Books UK
Published: 2010-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

It is interesting to consider the average farm labourer walking five or six miles into Bruff [County Limerick], let us say, to go to the pictures and then that long walk home again in our Irish rain. What has he seen that has the slightest relation to life as he knows it? He has seen nightclub queens covered by a few spangles, Chicago gangsters talking a peculiar argot, society playboys babbling aridly of Reno divorce. He has seen crooning cowboys, coal-black mammies, typists clad in Schiaparelli, models living in luxurious flats and millionaires living in Babylonian palaces. He is going home to fall into his bed in the loft, to rise next morning and feed the pigs. What does he make of it all?201

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