Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes

First published in Great Britain in 2007 by Mainstream Publishing Company, Edinburgh

First Seven Stories Press edition November 2012

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Long, Martha

Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes : a memoir of Dublin in the 1950s / Martha Long. -- 1st Seven Stories Press ed.

p. cm.

“First published in Great Britain in 2007 by Mainstream Publishing Company, Edinburgh”--T.p. verso.

ISBN 978-1-60980-414-5 (hardcover)

1. Long, Martha--Childhood and youth. 2. Illegitimate children--Ireland--Dublin--Biography. 3. Abused children--Ireland--Dublin--Biography. 4. Poor children--Ireland--Dublin--Biography. 5. Dublin (Ireland)--Social conditions--20th century. 6. Dublin (Ireland)--Biography. I. Title.

DA995.D8L66 2012

941.835082’3092--dc23

[B]

2012029940

Typeset in Caslon and Sabon

Printed in the USA

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