Rory & Ita
By: Roddy Doyle.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Doyle, Roddy, 1958- -- Homes and haunts -- Ireland -- Dublin; Doyle, Roddy, 1958- -- Childhood and youth; Doyle, Roddy, 1958- -- Family; Authors, Irish -- 20th century -- Family relationships; Authors, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography; Family -- Ireland -- Dublin; Dublin (Ireland) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Dublin (Ireland) -- Social life and customs; Dublin (Ireland) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Rory and Ita
Description: "Rory and Ita, Roddy Doyle's first non-fiction book, tells - largely in their own words - the story of his parents' lives from their first memories to the present. Born in 1923 and 1925 respectively, they met at a New Year's Eve dance in 1947 and married in 1951.

They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods - the people (aunts, cousins, shopkeepers, friends, teachers), the politics (both came from Republican families), idyllic times in the Wexford countryside for Ita, Rory's apprenticeship as a printer. Ita's mother died when she was three ('the only memory I have is of her hands, doing things'); Rory was the oldest of nine children, five of them girls."--BOOK JACKET.