Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597487to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strumpet City Author: James Plunkett Narrator: John Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Centering on the seminal lockout of 20,000 workers in Dublin in 1913, Strumpet City by Irish writer James Plunkett encompasses a wide sweep of city life. From the destitution of 'Rashers' Tierney, the poorest of the poor, to the solid, aspirant respectability of Fitz and Mary, the priestly life of Father O'Connor, and the upper-class world of Yearling and the Bradshaws, it paints a portrait of a city of stark contrasts, with an urban working class mired in vicious poverty. Strumpet City is much more than a book about the Lockout. Through the power of vivid fiction we encounter all the complexities of humanity. The brilliant and much-loved TV series, originally screened by RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster, in 1980, is fondly remembered by many but to hear the book is to immerse yourself in social and historical writing akin to Chekhov and Tolstoy. Strumpet City is the great, sweeping Irish historical novel of the twentieth century.

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