The Mammy

Literature & Fiction

Brendan O'Carroll

Humor & Satire

Penguin

The Granny

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

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Before she was a Mammy, before she had Chisellers, and before they made her a Granny, Agnes Browne was Agnes Reddin, a young girl-or a Young Wan- growing up in the Jarro in Dublin.    Brendan O'Carroll takes readers back to the heart of working-class Dublin, this time in the 1940s.  Together with her soon to be lifelong best friend Marion Delany, young Agnes manages to survive the indignities and demands of Catholic school, the unwanted births of siblings, days spent in the factories and markets, and nights in the dance hall as rock-and-roll invades Dublin.   But on the eve of her wedding night, the Jarro is alive with gossip-will Agnes be turned away at the altar?  For the whole parish knows Agnes's not-so-well-kept secret.  And with a mother falling further into dementia, and a younger sister turning to a life of crime, it's up to Agnes alone to keep her splintering family together, while trying to create one of her own.    Filled with O'Carroll's trademark wicked wit and loving, larger-than-life characters, The Young Wan shows the hardscrabble beginnings of the ultimate Irish mother and family.

Young WAN, the (Lib)(CD)

Literary

Filled with O'Carroll's trademark wicked wit and loving, larger-than- life characters, The Young Wan shows the hilarious and hardscrabble beginnings of the ultimate Irish mother and family.

The Young Wan: An Agnes Browne Novel

Thorndike Press

The elite Long Range Desert Group operated behind enemy lines and Frank Jopling was with them from the first sortie. His diary is the most comprehensive published account of the daily activities of these military swashbucklers who played a vital part in the Eighth Army's victory over Axis forces in North Africa during World War II. Trooper Jopling himself became something of a wartime celebrity after his diary was discovered. Extracts appeared in British media, he was the cover story in Everybody's magazine and his personal readings from the diaries were broadcast in his home country, New Zealand.

Bearded Brigands: The legendary Long Range Desert Group in the diaries and photographs of Trooper Frank Jopling

Leo Cooper

"Mammy" is what Irish children call their mothers and The Mammy is Agnes Browne--a widow struggling to raise seven children in a North Dublin neighborhood in the 1960s. Popular Irish comedian Brendan O'Carroll chronicles the comic misadventures of this large and lively family with raw humor and great affection.

The mammy

The O'Brien Press

The Chisellers

Contemporary

O'Brien Press Ltd

SEPTEMBER 1942: Allied special forces launch commando operations against several Axis facilities deep behind the lines in Libya, during the build-up to the second battle of El Alamein. Most successful is a swashbuckling, damaging raid on the Italian-held Barce airfield and town, by Kiwi and British members of the Long Range Desert Group. This is an anatomy of that raid, pieced together by LRDG authority Brendan O'Carroll from interviews with participants, official records from both sides in the conflict, and published accounts.

Barce Raid: The Long Range Desert Group's Greatest Escapade

History

Military

Ngaio Press

Khaki Angels: Kiwi Stretcher Bearers In The First And Second World Wars

Three years after Redser's death, Agnes Browne soldiers on as mother, father and referee to her fighting family of seven. When an unscrupulous gangster tries to threaten the family's dreams, he soon learns not to mess with the children of Agnes Browne.

OʼBrien Press

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