Against the Wind: Memoir of a Dissident Dubliner: N/A

Set in Dublin during the years of the Second World

War and in England during the post-war years of

the 1950s and 1960s Against the Wind is a lively

and compelling memoir.

It is the story of a young man of independent mind and feisty

spirit who refuses to accept the constraints and strictures of a

closed Irish society. And who through economic necessity, at a very

young age, is forced to live and work in `Pagan England' the land

of `the enemy'. There he learns to `like the English' and learns of

`fre...