The Young Wan

"Agnes is born to Connie and Bosco Reddin, two parents from completely different backgrounds - she the homely head of an accounting office, he a dashing factory worker and union organizer - with their own tumultuous past and whirlwind courtship to recount. Together with her soon to be lifelong best friend Marion Delany, young Agnes manages to survive the indignities and demands of nuns and Catholic school, the unwanted births of siblings, first encounters with the opposite sex, days spent in the factories and markets, and nights in the dance hall as rock and roll invades Dublin. But on the…