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A dish to satisfy the current appetite for reminiscence about modest Irish beginnings... This is an affectionate chronicle gently told. Throughout the narrative we see the streets and hillsides of a Belfast which seems like yesterday but is long gone. There is a bitter-sweet pleasure in rediscovering it' Irish Times
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- PublisherNew Island Books
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1902602196
- ISBN 13 9781902602196
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages300
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