Anthony English wants to tell everyone about a book he loved, and why:
Monthly Archives: March 2014
Lucy here describes her home in County Galway, which she fled aged 8 in 1921, and how it compares to the house which her da found for them in Sydney’s Newtown. ‘It was a little four room cottage with a thatched roof and a hearth. A kitchen there was in […]
An Irish girl in a strange land
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May 20-26, 1928, was Empire Shopping Week, but Lucy was having none of it! Enjoy this meticulous piece of historical detail in A Distant Prospect, by Annette Young: We resumed our walk up King Street and paused occasionally to look at the window displays. It was Empire Week and the […]