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Across the barricades / Joan Lingard.

By: Lingard, Joan.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Puffin books (Series).Publisher: Harmondsworth : Puffin Books, 1973Description: 174 p. ; 18 cm.ISBN: 0140306374.Subject(s): Ireland -- FictionDDC classification: 823.91 Summary: Relates the present-day struggle in Ireland as it affects the developing relationship between Sadie, a Protestant, and Kevin, a Catholic.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item 823.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00034457
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Kevin and Sadie just want to be together, but it's not that simple. Things are bad in Belfast. Soldiers walk the streets and the city is divided. No Catholic boy and Protestant girl can go out together - not without dangerous consequences . . . The second of Joan Lingard's ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie books

Relates the present-day struggle in Ireland as it affects the developing relationship between Sadie, a Protestant, and Kevin, a Catholic.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Joan Lingard was born in Edinburgh and grew up in Belfast where she lived until she was eighteen. She began to write when she was eleven years old and always wanted to be a writer. She is particularly well-known for the Kevin and Sadie titles, beginning with THE TWELFTH DAY OF JULY, which are set against the troubled background of Ireland. Joan was given an MBE for distinguished service to children's literature. She lives in Edinburgh.

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