I Will Be Good: The Memoir of a Woman Before Her Time

'One of the best Dublin memoirs I've ever read' Donal Fallon

Peig McManus was born into the last of Dublin's tenements before moving to one of Ireland's first social housing estates in Cabra. Her father believed that children should earn their keep and learn to face reality as soon as possible. While that reality was poverty, class prejudice and strict Catholicism, at the heart of Peig's earliest memories are music, hoolies and the bonds of family and community.

I Will Be Good is the story of...