Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes
Subtitle: a heart-rending memoir that will both horrify and inspire
By: Martha Long.
Publisher: Mainstream Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
ISBN-13: 9781845962791
Subjects: Long, Martha -- Childhood and youth.; Illegitimate children -- Ireland -- Dublin -- Biography.; Poor children -- Ireland -- Dublin -- Biography.; Dublin (Ireland) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.