McKenna, Christina,  1957- <br/><br/>
My mother wore a yellow dress :  an Irish childhood in the 1960s / 
Christina McKenna. 
 - Glasgow :  Neil Wilson,  c2004. 
 - ix, 245 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> 'I learned about conflict from my parents.' So begins Christina McKenna's haunting memoir of her lonely early life. Recounting scenes from her chlldhood in Ulster, she paints a memorable and poignant picture of violence and oppression with her brutal father and protective mother, whose retaliation to her husband's meanness came in the form of a secret yellow dress. At age eleven, she experiences a frightening supernatural occurrence, a prolonged haunting that confirms for her the reality of the spirit world. Though it affects her deeply, she later learns to channel her confusion into twin 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1903238765 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005440443 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA446084  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>012937988  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>McKenna, Christina, 1957- --Childhood and youth.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mothers and daughters--Northern Ireland--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Northern Ireland--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>CT808.M36  / A3 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>941.6’0823’092  B