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My Mother Wore A Yellow Dress : An Irish Childhood in the 1960s by McKenna, Christina, 1957- is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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'I learned about conflict from my parents.' So begins Christina McKenna's haunting memoir of her lonely early life. Recounting scenes from her childhood in Ulster, she paints a memorable and poignant picture of violence and oppression with her brutal father and protective mother, whose retalliation to her husband's meaness came in the form of a secret yellow dress. This is a rite-of-passage account of two generations of Irish women, told with great humour and compassion. On the one hand is the w
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- Author
- McKenna, Christina, 1957-
- Publisher
- Neil Wilson Publishing
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781906476601
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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