Rory & Ita

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"Rory and Ita, Roddy Doyle's first non-fiction book, tells - largely in their own words - the story of his parents' lives from their first memories to the present. Born in 1923 and 1925 respectively, they met at a New Year's Eve dance in 1947 and married in 1951. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods - the people (aunts, cousins, shopkeepers, friends, teachers), the politics (both came from Republican families), idyllic times in the Wexford countryside for Ita, Rory's apprenticeship as a printer. Ita's mother died when she was three ('the only memory I have is of her hands, doing things'); Rory was the oldest of nine children, five of them girls."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Families,  Family,  Intellectual life,  Family & Relationships,  Homes and haunts,  Irish authors,  Biography & Autobiography,  Family relationships,  Childhood and youth,  Biography,  Nonfiction,  Ireland, biography,  Ireland, social life and customs,  Authors, biography,  Family, ireland,  Homes,  Manners and customs

People: Ita Doyle (1925-),  Roddy Doyle (1958-),  Rory Doyle (1923-)

Places: Dublin,  Dublin (Ireland),  Ireland

Times: 20th century