Description

Home & Van Thal, 1947; Printed by Fodhla Printing Company. Ltd, Dublin. Hard cover, 118 pp. First Edition. In acceptable+ condition/ NO dust jacket. Blue textured paper over boards with black lettering on front and spine. Spine and top edge are quite faded. Light bumping to edges of covers and Moderate overall aging, fading and soiling to covers as well. Thin crack to spine at pp 48-49, but binding is still intact. Pages are lightly age but otherwise unmmarked with occasional light spotting. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Cover design (missing) and frontispiece by Ronald Ferns. A fascinating glimpse at post-WWII Dublin written by "a well known Dublin publisher and master printer." The book is "not a guide book"... but is “intended to represent an imaginary Dubliner who, in the casual way so typically Irish, is showing his English friends around the city and neighbourhood of Dublin, and who, without any set order, is commenting on people, places and things as he meets them.” The book covers an amazing range of topics from the influx of British tourists seeking fresh eggs and milk (still being rationed in the UK but freely available in Ireland), traffic (lots of bicycles), pubs (many of which are still around today), Hotels, fashion, youth, greyhound racing, art, music, drama, Dublin women. Includes wonderful, and often, quite funny little anecdotes throughout. G. Ivan Morris was a self-educated Limerick man, the eldest child in a family who had lost its bread-winning father at a young age. Originally working in Dublin as an accountant, he also managed to become a prolific author and eventually purchased the Fodhla Printing Company in Dublin, which he used to print his own books.