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For over fifty years, Kevin C. Kearns trekked the rough-and-tumble streets of the heart of Dublin, hoping to record and preserve the city's vanishing oral history. Armed only with a Sony tape recorder, the ordinary people he encountered - street traders, dockers, factory workers, tram drivers, housewives and midwives, children and grandparents - shared private stories of hardship, joy, sorrow, suffering, survival and triumph.In Our Day is the culmination of a life's work - a treasure trove bursting with whispers from the past - 450 vignettes, memories and recollections gathered to present an evocative, poignant portrait of a forgotten Dublin.
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In Our Day, Kevin C. Kearns
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- Publicado en
- 2022
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- Título
- In Our Day
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Kevin C. Kearns
- Editorial
- Gill
- Publicado en
- 2022
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Páginas
- 272
- ISBN10
- 0717195597
- ISBN13
- 9780717195596
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Irlanda, Historia oral
- Calificación
- 3,75 de 5
- Descripción
- For over fifty years, Kevin C. Kearns trekked the rough-and-tumble streets of the heart of Dublin, hoping to record and preserve the city's vanishing oral history. Armed only with a Sony tape recorder, the ordinary people he encountered - street traders, dockers, factory workers, tram drivers, housewives and midwives, children and grandparents - shared private stories of hardship, joy, sorrow, suffering, survival and triumph.In Our Day is the culmination of a life's work - a treasure trove bursting with whispers from the past - 450 vignettes, memories and recollections gathered to present an evocative, poignant portrait of a forgotten Dublin.