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The story of Roddy Doyle's parents, how they met at a dance in 1947 and married in 1951. They recall details of their Dublin childhoods - the people, the politics, the Wexford countryside; and through their eyes, the intensely Catholic society of their youth transforms to today's vibrant Ireland.
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Rory and Ita, Roddy Doyle's first non-fiction book, tells - largely in their own words - the story of his parents' lives from their first memories to the present. Born in 1923 and 1925 respectively, they met at a New Year's Eve dance in 1947 and married in 1951. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods - the people (aunts, cousins, shopkeepers, friends, teachers), the politics (both came from Republican families), idyllic times in the Wexford countryside for Ita, Rory's apprenticeship as a printer. Ita's mother died when she was three ('the only memory I have is of her hands, doing things'); Rory was the oldest of nine children, five of them girls.
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