Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door 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
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Invisible Prison: Scenes from an Irish Childhood

The Invisible Prison: Scenes from an Irish Childhood

Boran, Pat

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral PoetryIrish History

ISBN10: 191025147X
ISBN13: 9781910251478
Publisher: Dedalus Press
Published: Oct 15 2018
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

From the early 1970s the Irish midland town of Portlaoise became famous as the home of the country's maximum security political prison. A childhood on the Main Street of that once congested, now double by-passed town afforded prize-winning poet Pat Boran a unique insight into its workings, and into small-town life in general.
Here are extraordinary glimpses of bog men and bogey men, of the town's first colour television and the national debate over its first public toilet ... Here too are stories of coming of age, of high jinks and low deeds, of events and characters both wonderful and strange.
And here too is the shadow of the northern conflict, seen through the lens of a southern Irish town with claims to being the place where the British Empire began - and where the first shots of the 1916 Rising were fired.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Biographies General

View All