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Biography & Autobiography Cultural Heritage

Paddy Boy

by (author) Patrick O'Flaherty

Publisher
Pottersfield Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2015
Category
Cultural Heritage, General, Historical, Post-Confederation (1867-)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897426678
    Publish Date
    Mar 2015
    List Price
    $17.95

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Paddy Boy is Patrick O’Flaherty’s lively memoir of childhood in a small secluded Newfoundland community, covering the years 1939-54. This time is most unique because it is a bridge between the old Newfoundland with its curious links to England, Ireland, and Scotland, and its new status, after 1949, as a province of Canada. O’Flaherty reimagines just what that lost world was like, how children figured into it, how his family and other families functioned and what part religion played.

About the author

Patrick O'Flaherty, who lives in St. John's, Newfoundland, has written four works of fiction, the most recent of which is the novel Benny's Island. His latest books is Old Newfoundland: A History to 1843 (1999).

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