TY  - BOOK
AU  - McKenna,Christina
TI  - My mother wore a yellow dress: an Irish childhood in the 1960s 
SN  - 1903238765 (pbk.)
AV  - CT808.M36 A3 2004
U1  - 941.6’0823’092B 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Glasgow
PB  - Neil Wilson
KW  - McKenna, Christina,
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Northern Ireland
KW  - Biography
N2  - '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
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