{"product_id":"growing-up-with-ireland-isbn-9781529337365","title":"Growing Up with Ireland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An incredible portal to our past' \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 7 January 1922, Ireland became a free state. Born into that era of turbulence and hope were the twenty-six women and men whose stories and memories of a lifetime are captured by cherished Irish journalist Valerie Cox. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom recollections of the big snow of 1932, to Éamon de Valera speaking to crowds in a rural town square, to the dawning of electricity, these evocative pieces reflect both a simpler time and a tougher one, where childhood was short and the world of work beckoned from an early age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn living memory are tales of 'rambling houses' - where each night neighbours would walk over the fields to sit around the fire, drink tea and tell stories - raising a family in an earlier era, the scourge of TB, hiding out in Santry Woods when the Black and Tans raided, and pride in a father who was interned in Frongach after the\u003cbr\u003eEaster Rising. Also explored are thoughts on the good and bad of how life has transformed over a century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrowing Up With Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling portrait of an Ireland in some ways warmly familiar, and in others changed beyond recognition, from those who were there at the beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Ireland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44895227150565,"sku":"NP9781529337365","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/O_bc7a9056-47d5-4083-89c8-5978894e72cd.jpg?v=1773102485","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/growing-up-with-ireland-isbn-9781529337365","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}