Growing up in rural Ireland in the 50s and 60s posed many challenges
’In Those Days’ offers a frank account of a simple way of life impacted by poverty, religious influences and the stricture of a male dominated society.
It has all the elements of Irish family life in mid 20th century Ireland. A young State imposing its ideals on its people. A people held firmly in the grip of the then dominant Catholic Church.
Here is a boy reaching out for manhood, seeking his destiny amidst the turmoil of old traditions and the social revolution of the 60s.
It is a period of childhood innocence and adolescent naivety with a mixture of happiness and sadness thrown in for good measure.’
’In Those Days’ offers a frank account of a simple way of life impacted by poverty, religious influences and the stricture of a male dominated society.
It has all the elements of Irish family life in mid 20th century Ireland. A young State imposing its ideals on its people. A people held firmly in the grip of the then dominant Catholic Church.
Here is a boy reaching out for manhood, seeking his destiny amidst the turmoil of old traditions and the social revolution of the 60s.
It is a period of childhood innocence and adolescent naivety with a mixture of happiness and sadness thrown in for good measure.’
