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100	1		_aKearns, Kevin Corrigan. _916872
240	1	0	_aDublin's lost heroines : mammies and grannies in a vanished city
245	1	0	_aWorking class heroines : _bthe extraordinary women of Dublin's tenements / _cKevin C. Kearns.
264		1	_aDublin : _bGill Books, _c[2018]
300			_a406 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (black and white) ; _c24 cm
500			_aOriginally published as Dublin's lost heroines : mammies and grannies in a vanished city : Gill & Macmillan, 2004.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"In Working Class Heroines acclaimed historian Kevin C. Kearns brings us the voices of the forgotten women of Dublin's tenements. If it weren't for his work the lives of these everyday heroines would be lost forever. Based on 30 years of research spent interviewing and recording the life stories of the working-class women of Dublin, it covers the squalid tenement days of the early 1900s, through the mid-century decades of `slumland' block flats, and into the 1970s when deadly drugs infiltrated poor neighbourhoods, terrifying mothers and stealing away their children. What emerges is an intimate and poignant celebration of the mammies and grannies who held the fabric of family life in an environment of hardship and, often, cruelty. Through vivid tales of how they coped with grinding poverty, huge families, pitiless landlords, the oppressive Church, dictatorial priests, feckless and often abusive husbands, these remarkable women shine with astonishing dignity, wit, pride and a resilient spirit, despite their struggles. Working Class Heroines gives voice and pays tribute to the long silent, unsung heroines who were the indispensable caretakers of both family and community, and remains one of the most important Irish feminist documents of our times." - Copac
650		0	_aWomen college students _zIreland _zDublin _xHistory _y20th century. _989682
650		0	_aPoor _zIreland _zDublin _xHistory _y20th century. _982684
651		0	_aDublin (Ireland) _xHistory _y20th century. _955921
651		0	_aBallymun (Dublin, Ireland) _xSocial conditions _y20th century. _962532
651		0	_aDocklands (Dublin, Ireland) _xSocial life and customs _y20th century _9121866
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