James Plunkett was born in Dublin on May 21, 1920, and died in Dublin on May 28, 2003. James Plunkett was a Dublin born and a Dublin bred author.This is where his heart was.It was with the salt of the earth people, the working-class people. His writings, as in Strumpet City, would set the aberrations of the ordinary person against the engorged lavishness of the upper-class. Plunkett's gift was the ability to make you feel you were there to see the events that he was describing and so he made them alive.
Book Review:And when he walked to school it was a journey through the multiple tiers of a society where tuppence ha`penny looked down on tuppence, while tuppence in turn was a cut above three ha`pence. What your father did for a livelihood was of importance.
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Book Review:Dublin 1907 to 1914.All the trials and tribulations of Dublin men and women are described here with delicacy.