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COPYRIGHT 2002 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
RORY & ITA by Roddy Doyle Cape, 16.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 338, ISBN 0224069233
My first memory is of the stone floor. Stone slabs. And I remember ... soldiers marching, with their leggings and boots, and dragging cannon guns with mules, and the noise and the screeching and the roars of the men. And another memory is of my Grandfather Mullally eating griddle cake in our house in Terenure, and drinking his tea out of a saucer.
Either you like this kind of thing or you don't. I love it. I relished every word of Rory & Ita. The book is described as Roddy Doyle's...
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