Posh Mackers by Conor Magahy

Posh Mackers by Conor MagahyThis is an oddly shaped memoir. Stay where you are! These memories are from 1978 to 1988 and they are my own. Some other memories in this book belong to people born long before me. This took much longer than it should have to write. I travelled into memories. I had chosen to forget. When anyone does that journey, it can be difficult. Posh Mackers, A rooted boot both sides of the River Liffey, is about what happens when poverty, snobbery and obsessive

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but even as his funeral is scheduled

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hope for healing

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