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Many young men of twenty: Moll ; The Chastitute.

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Many Young Men of Twenty, a play, deals with emigration and the lack of jobs at home that forced people to leave their native Ireland for England.

It describes the emigrants 'longing for home - 'Everyone is lonesome leaving home' - their annual homecomings and their return to jobs and places they disliked - 'back to their night shifts, an 'filthy digs ...with their long faces leanin' out o' the carriage windows with the thoughts of what's waitin' over'.

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Product Details
Mercier Press
1781174334 / 9781781174333
eBook (EPUB)
822.914
06/06/2016
Ireland
99 pages
Copy: 20%; print: 20%
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