44: A Dublin Memoir [Paperback] Sheridan, Peter

Peter Sheridan grew up at 44 East Wall in 1960s Dublin — a street where neighbours shared everything from sugar to gossip, and childhood meant dodging traffic to play football in the road. This memoir brings that vanished working-class Dublin vividly back: the characters who populated his block, the rhythms of a large Catholic family, the small dramas that felt enormous. Sheridan, brother of playwright Jim Sheridan and a respected playwright himself, writes with warmth and sharp detail about a community bound by proximity and poverty, where humour was currency and everyone knew your business. It's a love letter to a place and a time, told without sentimentality but with genuine affection. For anyone who loves memoirs rooted in a specific time and place, or readers of Frank McCourt and Roddy Doyle who want more Irish voices from the margins.