Valerie Cox: Independence Memories: A People’s Portrait of the Early Days of the Irish Nation [2022] paperback Condition:New It's a meditation on love

It's a meditation on love

This book moved me to tears

It's a year and a half on from PAPER AEROPLANES

Lionel Shriver never took that easy route' Irish Independent

Valerie Cox: Independence Memories: A People’s Portrait of the Early Days of the Irish Nation [2022] paperback Condition:New It's a meditation on loveA PEOPLE'S PORTRAIT OF A PERIOD OF MOMENTOUS CHANGE IN IRISH HISTORY. Independence Memories is a fascinating social history, from living and inherited memory, of the period surrounding Irish Independence and the Civil War. It was a time of violence, of death, of emigration, of families divided into pro and anti Treaty, Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera. Against a tapestry of safe houses and mountain hide outs, people fell in love, raised families