Biography & Autobiography Cultural Heritage
Paddy Boy
- Publisher
- Pottersfield Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2015
- Category
- Cultural Heritage, General, Historical, Post-Confederation (1867-)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897426678
- Publish Date
- Mar 2015
- List Price
- $17.95
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Description
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).
