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Shh, Dont Tell...
A Story of Survival
By Miriam Moriarty Owens
In 1959 my mother became ill from TB and we were left in the care of my father and grandmother. The ISPCC deemed my father an unfit parent to look after us and as a result, my sisters and I were sentenced to 14 years in Pembroke Alms Industrial School where we were placed in the care of the Sisters of Mercy. While there, my sisters and I were subjected to horrendous, almost unimaginable cruelty and abuse, both physically and mentally, the scars of which I still feel today
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Reader Review By Pam 'littlenell'
Superb Ron !
Just loved this book, so many laugh out loud moments and made me smile often. It gives a wonderfully atmospheric feel for life in the tenements of 1960's Glasgow and the author has a way of serving up the hardship aspect with a particularly incisive wit, capturing that wonderful Glasgow humour perfectly. The characters are warm and likeable and draw you into their lives making you really care about what happens to them so much that I find myself looking forward to the next offering from Mr Windward.
Translation For Toffs
The Shows’ / The Carnival The Steamie / Place to wash clothes The Barra’s / Outdoor Market The Booly / Waste ground used for play Bools / Jorries Marbles Stank / Drain Cover 3/6d / 3 shillings and sixpence A Close / Entrance to flats Cludgie / Outside shared toilet Manky / Dirty Bo’z / Girls game bouncing balls Moashie / Game with coins and 3 holes Sidey / 2 teams playing football The Minors / Saturday cinema for kids The sony pon’ / Sand pits for playing Single End / One room flat Midden / Dustbin Lucky Midden / Dustbin behind shops Corpie’ Bus / Public Transport
Glaswegian words and phrases
Furra / For a Geeza / Give me Gonny / Are you going to Gon’ / Going Whit fur / What for Wisnae / Wasn’t Wiz / Was Aye / Yes Naw / No Urny’ / Are not Aye a ‘um / Yes I am Naw yer no’ / No you are not Fings / Things Aff / Off Oan / On Am’ / I am Am’ no’ / I am not Roon ra’ back / Going round the backcourt Geeza Brek / Cut me some slack
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By Miriam Moriarty Owens
In 1959 my mother became ill from TB and we were left in the care of my father and grandmother. The ISPCC deemed my father an unfit parent to look after us and as a result, my sisters and I were sentenced to 14 years in Pembroke Alms Industrial School where we were placed in the care of the Sisters of Mercy. More |
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