Bøker av Martin Duffy

A young girl, Flo, tries to be friendly with an old horse kept in the stables of her riding school. She learns that this horse, Augustus, was once a world champion show jumper but is now crippled and bitter.

First published in 2006, Barney and Molly: A True Dublin Love Story has now been updated to include additional information on the Duffy and Dowdall families dating back to the times of the Great Famine. The definitive edition of this captivating memoir presents the story of Barney and Molly Duffy, who married in 1926 and raised fifteen children in Dublin amidst tremendous political and social upheaval.Their family journey spans generations, from rural Ireland to London, Toronto, and beyond. Despite facing numerous challenges, Barney and Molly's profound love and devotion to each other remain at the heart of this captivating tale. This memoir offers a glimpse into the lives of those who lived through Ireland's evolution into the country it is today. Martin Duffy, the youngest of the fifteen children and an unexpected late addition to the family saga when born in 1952, pays tribute to his extraordinary family lineage.

This memoir tells the story of the first twenty-one years of my life, growing up and coming of age in the working class Dublin Corporation housing estate of Crumlin.Although humorous when telling my tale, the book also includes stories of abuse, death and loss. The chapters unfold from my unlikely birth - the youngest of fifteen children - to Crumlin life, the death of my brother Paddy in a London road accident and the abuse I suffered through a 'Christian' Brother at school. From a little boy priest in Blackrock College and then as an apprentice projectionist in the Kenilworth Cinema and a year as clapper/loader in Ardmore Studios. The story goes on through my difficult teenage years of alienation from my father and his death at the age of seventy, a month before my 21st birthday and a few months before my marrying my pregnant 18-year-old girlfriend. That marked the end of my life in 147, Leighlin Road and the start of my life as a married man and father-to-be.This book will be of interest to anyone of a Dublin/Irish heritage who will understand my journey. Back in my day emigration, particularly to England, was part of Irish life and that is reflected in my story. I am an experienced storyteller and now I am finally telling my own story of the years that formed the man I am today.

Barney and Molly Duffy raised 13 children in a tiny two-bedroom Dublin Corporation home. Contained in this book is nearly a century of lore compiled by their youngest from years of family collaboration.