Word: corking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Childhood by Rockwell. Now 37, Jean Kerr was once Bridget Jean Collins of Scranton, Pa., the first of four children of a construction foreman who had emigrated from Ireland to find a career in the New World so that he could send back to County Cork for his sweetheart, Kitty O'Neill. Kitty, second cousin of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, is better known to readers of The Snake Has All the Lines as "My Wild Irish Mother," a woman with an unquenchable sense of humor. "After all the money I've sunk in bronchitis," she said recently...
...Only Child, by Frank O'Connor. Born in a Cork slum, the author writes with cheerful clarity of his pitiable boyhood and his fey, gallant mother...
...story concerns the pitiful boyhood and youth of Michael O'Donovan (Frank O'Connor is a pen name) in a wet, ruined, pious and oppressed Cork slum. Young Michael was heir to every misery that could afflict a boy: bad teeth, bad eyes, failure and constant canings at school, disgrace in his first wretched jobs, and the horror of a miserly, sententious and drunken father. James Joyce's squalid boyhood in Dublin was a princely origin compared with the Tartarean depths of little Mick O'Donovan's life in Cork. Yet by some miracle...
...Side. The first miracle involves his own nature. He lived in dreams, and as a man of 58 he still knows the boyhood truth that all children are slightly daft and that imaginative children are plain off their rocker. In the midst of this Cork slum, screaming with malice, he lived among "Invisible Presences"-imaginary young aristocrats at British public schools about whom he read in penny weeklies of the sort that excited the wrath of Etonian George Orwell. Through these stories, barefoot Mick was initiated into the code of the young English gentleman. Naturally it got him into...
...dozen places by nostalgic enemy soldiers, alone or in force, all pining to embrace their mothers and discover if the cow had calved." Eventually, the author himself began to long for home and Mother; aided by his native humor, he let go the "Shelleyan fantasy" of the Cork rebellion and settled in Dublin, with Mother, to try his hand at writing...