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That's thatColin Broderick

That's that

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Colin Broderick grew up in Northern Ireland during the period of heightened tension and violence known as the Troubles. Broderick's Catholic family lived in County Tyrone - the heart of rebel country. In That's That, he brings us into this world and delivers a deeply personal account of what it was like to come of age in the midst of a war that dragged on for more than two decades. We watch as he and his brothers play ball with the neighbor children over a fence for years but are never allowed to play together because it is forbidden. We see him struggle to understand why young men from his…

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2 editions
  • Audiobook · English · 2013
    Blackstone Audio, Inc. · 9781470897673
  • Other · English · 2013
    Broadway Paperbacks · 359 pages · 9780307716330
Social life and customsFamiliesFamilyCatholicsSocial conflictSocial conditionsManners and customsChildhood and youth