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You'll Ruin your Dinner: Sweet Memories from Irish childhood Damian Corless

You'll Ruin your Dinner: Sweet Memories from Irish childhood By Damian Corless

You'll Ruin your Dinner: Sweet Memories from Irish childhood by Damian Corless


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You'll Ruin your Dinner: Sweet Memories from Irish childhood Summary

You'll Ruin your Dinner: Sweet Memories from Irish childhood by Damian Corless

Whether your taste was for fiddlestix or Flavour Ravers, Trigger bars or Two and Twos, Marathons or macaroons, Peggy's Legs or Push Pops, Liquorice Allsorts or Little Devils, You'll Ruin Your Dinner has something for you.
From the heyday of Cleeve's toffee to the birth of the Tayto Cheese & Onion crisp, it transports us back to the days when sweet shop windows across the country boasted tempting confectionery displays, when summer was heralded with a visit from the ice-cream cart, and when Grafton Street was the sweet shop capital of Ireland.
And then there was the golden age of Irish-made sweets, when the entire nation downed tools to listen to Fry-Cadbury's soap The Kennedys of Castleross and Gay Byrne cut his teeth on The Urney Programme.
The next three decades brought enduring favourites along with fleeting fads, but the craving for a sugar-rush remained steadfast for generations of Irish kids to come. These mouth-watering memories are captured here across the decades in an assortment that will keep you dipping back in for more - and it won't ruin your dinner.

You'll Ruin your Dinner: Sweet Memories from Irish childhood Reviews

'If you're looking for the perfect stocking filler for Christmas then you can do no better than Damian Corless's book You'll Ruin Your Dinner, a hilarious and poignant account of the sweets and treats we used to eat as kids' * Irish Independent *
'Almost good enough to eat . . . Corless's affectionate and evocative history (...) has a sweet centre.' * RTE Guide *
'Amusing and nostalgic . . . to be enjoyed with a favourite treat' * Irish Catholic *

About Damian Corless

Born in Dublin some time ago, Damian Corless, one of Ireland's best-known journalists, works with the Irish Independent and is former editor of In Dublin and Magill. He has written television comedy sketches for BBC2's Big Train and RTE's Stew and his acclaimed books include Loose Talk, GUBU Nation, That's Ireland (with Michael Nugent), Party Nation and The Greatest Bleeding Hearts Racket in the World. Born with a sweet tooth, he can claim to have ruined his dinner many times in his younger years - and sometimes still does.

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GOR007130992
9781444726039
144472603X
You'll Ruin your Dinner: Sweet Memories from Irish childhood by Damian Corless
Used - Good
Paperback
Hachette Books Ireland
20121001
240
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