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the characters portrayed long to move forward

articulating a childhood and landscape peopled by cottagers and fisherfolk

Úna Ní Bhroiméil

It describes the upbringing of a Protestant only child on a farm near Nenagh in north Tipperary-an idyll interrupted by school in Dublin during the 1940s

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