Don't wake me at Doyles the remarkable memoir of an ordinary Irish woman and her extraordinary life
When seventy-year-old Maura Murphy discovered she had cancer, she left her husband of fifty years and started writing her memoirs. Born 'chronically ugly and as cross as a briar' into a poor rural homestead in 1920s Ireland, Maura lived much of her adult life in England, where she raised n...
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Table of Contents:
- Family tree
- Glossary
- Flying along the tar road
- The notorious birth of Mary McNamee
- The 'Cottage Crowd'
- Tullamore general
- A domestic life
- Garda tom
- The bug smoke
- 'A Perfect Gentleman'
- Johnnny and the Rat-trap Cheese
- Miss Popularity 1999
- Picturesque poverty
- Rats in Garr
- Dont wake me at Doyles
- Bailifss at Bevington Road
- 'Flying in the face of god'
- Home and alone
- Sick with delight
- 'Pour Auld Johnnie
- Will i survive?
- The easter rowing
- Rhode to recovery
- Postscript
- Acknowledgements