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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Adapting

Adapting

Holliday, Mary

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ISBN10: 0648832600
ISBN13: 9780648832607
Publisher: Mary Josephine Holliday
Published: May 21 2020
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Born in Ireland into a patrilineal inheritance system, Mary Holliday recognised early on that there was no future for her in the stanchly Church-controlled Ireland of the mid-20th Century. Her best prospects were an approved husband followed by decades of rampant baby making and domestic drudgery. Yet neither did she want to simply embark on a ship for America, like so many young Irish had done for so long. Faced with a love of her nation but a dread of the crippling economic realities of her time, she elected to follow her Aunt Alice's footsteps. As a first-born female of the family, she too, like Alice would become a nurse. Armed with this most portable of careers, the young Mary would forge her own way in the world and, as if to prove that the fate of Irish youth is to roam, she would eventually sail away from her Celtic home, first to Africa and then to Australia.

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