Dublin councils are to look at buying or building homeless hostels
“We have an over-reliance on the private sector, it is expensive, it is poor value for money,” says Mary Hayes, director of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive.
“The Ireland that was promised to these young men is not the one that they have found themselves in. This book tells the tale of aging men in a youthful nation state.”
Dublin-based publishers Swan River Press are bringing the novel, which was banned in 1940s Ireland, back into print for the first time in decades.
In this memoir, Gillies Macbain tells of arriving in Ireland in the 1960s and embarking on a life of domestic service among the declining Anglo-Irish ascendancy.