Valerie Cox, journalist, author and advocate joined Gavin on Morning Focus today as she has just published a fascinating book of profiles of people who were born around the time of the Irish Free State – between the years 1921-29.
Valerie interviewed each person featured in the book so that their fascinating stories can be brought to the public. The book includes recollections of the big snow of 1932, to Eamon de Valera speaking to crowds in a rural town square, to living by gaslight and trips to the seaside on the crossbar of daddy’s bike to pick cockles for mammy. The stories reflect both a simpler time and a tougher one, where childhood was short and the world of work beckoned from an early age.
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