Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes
a heart-rending memoir that will both horrify and inspire
Ireland, social conditions
Illegitimate children
Poor children
Ireland, biography
Childhood and youth
Social conditions
Biography
Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s' Dublin, Martha grew up in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and forced to beg for food. Here she tells the story of her early life and recreates a lost era in which the shadow of the Catholic Church loomed large and if you didn't w…
Borrow to read
This scan is available through Internet Archive's free lending library — sign in or create a free account below, then borrow to read.
Reader not loading? Open it on Archive.org instead.
