Rebuilding the Crown
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Over the next ten years their lives would intertwine intermittently. The story that ensues is one of love, laughter, drink, hard work and loss. The book also tells of their encounters with other emigrants, Irish, African, West Indians, a Russian woman who could fill a cement mixer faster than any Irish navvy and a Pole who little by little created a life for himself and his Irish lady from nothing. It was in one of Londons dingy bed sits that Tom and Mick first settled into. They grubbed hard, drank by the imperial gallon, fought in the pubs and on the streets of London as if re-enacting their modern version of the Irish War of Independence on foreign soil. By night they tore London asunder and were on site the next morning at 8a.m. to rebuild it from the ground up.
This is the story of the life of Tom Sullivan now in his senior years having returned to his home town of Tralee. A man of wisdom self educated in the ways of the world, he tells his story with a wit and honesty that will bring both tears of laughter and sadness to the reader.
Timothy C.J. Murphy
The author grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Tralee in County Kerry, Ireland and also in,Reading, in Berkshire. He grew up until the age of nine as the sole child of Ted and Rose Murphy and was also frequently in the shadow, of his uncle Con. He experienced, as a child, the travelling to and fro between the south west of Ireland and the south of England. He was educated whether in England or in his native Ireland in Catholic schools ran by Nuns and Christian Brothers. He was later educated at Mount Melleray College near Cappaquin in County Waterford with the guidance of Cistercian Monks.
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